Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards.

Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.

Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and destruction. In broadcast journalism, killing is almost always covered, while kindness is almost always ignored. The more alarming a news item is, the more attention it receives.

Poor people in America today (people who are officially in poverty) have a higher standard of living - in terms of medical standards, in terms of going to college, in terms of the way people live - than middle class people did thirty years ago.

My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.

My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.