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• ‟ A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.

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• ‟ I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

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• ‟ I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

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• ‟ The church is not going to survive if they are going to tell people that they have to twist their minds into 1st century pretzels.

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• ‟ You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

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• ‟ We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at the stake; we've run them out of town for something over which they have no control. And that's immoral.

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• ‟ Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

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• ‟ Many of the characters who appear in the pages of the Fourth Gospel are literary creations of its author and were never intended to be understood as real people, who actually lived in history.

  - John Shelby Spong