That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

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

A person is as young as their dreams and as old as their cynicism.

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

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

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.