unbelievable quotations

"I think we're wasting [a college education] on kids. Many of them are great students, and they've done an incredible job of preparation. But they're much more interested in what this degree is going to get them than they are in getting on a lifelong path of broadening their minds. They all ought to go into the military or do community service or God knows what and become more mature." -Rae Siporin, direction of undergraduate admissions at UCLA (from seventeen, Jan 2000)

"For when the man starts going that way, it's not long until he puts his Bible down and he picks up psychology and sociology and political science, and the Lord only knows what all. You've got to stay by that Bible and what it says, and if you ever turn aside from it, you're going to turn into all those other things." -Reverend W.A. Criswell, of the First Baptist Church of Dallas on liberal theology (from Reality Isn't What it Used to Be by Walter Truett Anderson)

"...We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism...We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression..."-Reverend Joe Wright in his opening prayer for the new session of the Kansas Senate

"I never imagined there were so many screwed-up people." -an anti-abortion activist at a large pro-choice rally (from The Moral Imagination by Edward Tivnan)

"For those who say I can't impose my morality on others, I say just watch me." -Joseph Scheidler, Pro-Life Action League (from The Moral Imagination)

"We must take back our cities, and take back our culture, and take back our country." -Pat Buchanan in his 1992 Republican convention, attempting to rally Christians against pro-choicers and gays (from The Moral Imagination)