“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: women
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“Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: marriage
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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: government
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“So after the Lewinsky scandal, everything changed, and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time, which were social, to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: relationship
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“After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: government
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“The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: communication
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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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“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
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“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.”
— Tony Campolo
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Category: change
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