Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.
Televangelist Pat Robertson, displaying a complete lack of self-awareness.
Beware of these scamsters, especially scamsters in religious garb quoting the Bible. I mean, run from them. They’re all over the place.
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Rob Bell, a young evangelical superstar and, until recently, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church, a West Michigan megachurch he founded in 1999, speaking at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, where he officially came out in support of marriage equality.
I think the ship has sailed and I think the church needs — I think this is the world we are living in and we need to affirm people wherever they are.
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Sarah Palin, to a room full of fellow conservatives at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
It’s time we all stop preaching to the choir and let’s grow.
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U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., when asked if his views had changed on gay marriage.
I’m not gay. So I’m not going to marry one.
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A sign held by nine-year old Josef Miles in a protest against nutty Westboro Baptist Church. The sign inspired Aaron Jackson to paint the house across the street from Westboro in the colors of the gay pride rainbow.
God Hates No One.
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