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• I teach at Eastern University, which is highly committed to doing work among the poor and the oppressed peoples of the world. We have a special commitment to the city.

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  Commitment, Cities, Special

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• I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

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  Religious, Couple, Gay

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• I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

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  Israel, Breathing, People

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• I am not suggesting that all those missionary organizations working in Haiti should pack up and go home, but I am urging them to understand that Haiti does not need clever Americans with newly contrived schemes for saving their country.

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  Country, Clever, Home

  "Making Matters Worse in Haiti" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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• And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

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  Religious, Hate, Leader

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• Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

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  Running, Religious, Government

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be “old-time gospel preaching.” This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

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  Religious, Southern, Radio

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.

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  White, America, House

  "The Making of a Better President" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2011.

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• Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

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  Christian, Powerful, Voting

  "Who Are Red Letter Christians?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2008.

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• An evangelical is somebody who, first of all, has a very high view of Scripture, believes it's an infallible message from God.

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  Believe, Views, Scripture

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• If being human requires freedom, then enslavement to the cares of this world is dehumanizing.

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  World, Care, Being Human

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• I am relatively sure, from conversations that I had with former president Bill Clinton, that George Bush seldom called upon him for advice.

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  Advice, President, Bills

  "The Making of a Better President" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2011.

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• It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church.

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  Christian, Prayer, Couple

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• We don't have to give up trying to convert each other. What we have to do is show respect to one another. And to speak to each other with a sense that even if people don't convert, they are God's people, God loves them, and we do not make the judgment of who is going to heaven and who is going to hell. I think that what we all have to do is leave judgment up to God. The Muslim community is very evangelistic, however what Muslims will not do is condemn Jews and Christians to Hell if in fact they do not accept Islam.

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  Christian, Giving Up, Thinking

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• Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.

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  Government, White, House

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.

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  Self, Development, Needs

  "Making Matters Worse in Haiti" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2010.

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• Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

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  Way, Election, American Elections

  "Who Are Red Letter Christians?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2008.

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• Evangelicals need to take a good look at what their issues are. Are they really being faithful to Jesus? Are they being faithful to the Bible?

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  Jesus, Issues, Faithful

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• To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

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  Open Minded, Educator, Explanation

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• Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

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  Institutions, States, Should

  Tony Campolo (2011). “Red Letter Christians: A Citizen's Guide to Faith and Politics”, p.68, Baker Books

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• Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding.

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  Lying, Way, Internet

  "Why the Religious Right Will Dominate" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2010.

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• In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

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  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

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  University Professors, Ministers, Professors

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• One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party... Jesus is not a Republican. Nor is he a Democrat.

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  Jesus, Party, Married

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• I have serious problems with fundamentalist Christians and their creationist theories. Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days. My skepticism is due, in part, to the fact that the Bible says that the sun wasn’t created until the fourth day of creation (Genesis 1:16-19). I have a hard time figuring how twenty-four hour days could have been measured before that.

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  Christian, Believe, Hard Times

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