What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.

We are here to help one another along life's journey.

If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits.

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

I do not suggest that you should not have an open mind ... but don't keep your mind so open that your brains fall out.

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.