If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.
Stephen L. CarterRumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.
Stephen L. CarterThe very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.
Stephen L. CarterThere is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.
Stephen L. CarterLots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.
Stephen L. Carter