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“The church's teaching on marriage is unequivocal, it is uniquely, the union of a man and a woman and it is wrong that governments, politicians or parliaments should seek to alter or destroy that reality.”

Men Should Reality Government Church Teaching Politician Unions Parliament Unequivocal

Author:Keith O'Brien

“For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.”

Church Politician Falsehood Unimportant Truth And Falsehood

Author:Martin Niemoller

“The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.”

“Some president wishes to be re-elected, and thereupon speaks about the Bible as "the corner-stone of American Liberty." This sentence is a mouth large enough to swallow any church, and from that time forward the religious people will be citing that remark of the politician to substantiate the inspiration of the Scriptures.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“God was executed by people painfully like us, in a society very similar to our own ... by a corrupt church, a timid politician, and a fickle proletariat led by professional agitators.”

People Jesus Christ Church Politician Jesus Christ Proletariat Fickle

Book:The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ

Source: The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ

“I met too frankly preposterous, if it weren't for their banal evil, politicians and pastors who told knowing lies about the evils of homosexuality in order to attract bigger flocks to their churches and more votes and power to their corrupt councils. LGBT people seem to be being scapegoated more and more just as at the same time in more enlightened countries more and more freedom to express themselves, marry, be given official intersex status and so on is offered.”

People Ifs Country Seems Lying Order Evil Given Church Knowing Politician Mets Vote Bigger Officials Enlightened Lgbt Homosexuality Pastor Council Flocks Intersex

Author:Stephen Fry

“Ordinary people - churches, too - have a role to force politicians to respond. Governments are not impressed with theories, but governments are impressed with people who change their minds about things.”

People Mind Government Force Church Roles Theory Politician Ordinary Impressed Ordinary People Not Impressed

Author:Allan Boesak