“I think that God created the earth, created the world; I think the creation of the world is so mysterious it requires something as large as an almighty and I don’t think it’s incompatible with the scientific proof that there is evolution. I happen to believe that evolution doesn’t fully explain the mystery of life.”
– President George W. Bush in an ABC “Nightline” interview on how Christianity has shaped his presidency.

“Religious groups are strongly partisan these days, and deeply embedded into the party coalitions [meaning that groups like black Protestants and Jews are important parts of the Democratic coalition, while white evangelicals play a similar role for the Republican Party.] In the short run, there is only a limited capacity for religious groups to move.”
– John Green, a political science professor at the University of Akron and a senior fellow at the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, in a Boston Globe article.

“I’m against promiscuity—love ought to be expressed in committed relationships, not through casual sex, and I think the church should recognize the validity of committed same-sex relationships.”
— The Rev. Terry Davis, pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Hartford, CT, where has been presiding over “holy unions” since 1992. Quoted in Newsweek magazine’s Dec. 9 cover story on gay marriage, “Our Mutual Joy.”