“President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case – and most Americans would agree with him on this – then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: marriage
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“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: religion
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“I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: legal
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“Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: freedom
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“President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case – and most Americans would agree with him on this – then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: government
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“Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: faith
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“There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: nature
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“Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: women
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“Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: money
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“Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.”
— Tony Campolo
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“If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?”
— Tony Campolo
Author: Tony Campolo
Category: marriage
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