Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.
TFN President Kathy Miller, on the outcome of Texas State Board of Education primary elections.
Unfortunately, last night’s outcome won’t bring a sea change at the state board. The November elections in a couple of districts could still make a difference in the overall balance of power on the board, but we’ll still have far too many board members who put their own political agendas ahead of the education of Texas kids.
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Robert Parham of the Baptist Center for Ethics, on the waning influence and possible ouster of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Richard Land.
I don’t see Land as influential among rank-and-file Southern Baptists, not as a mega-church preacher or a seminary president would be. His main constituency is probably the media, which given the media’s aversion to plagiarism ought to be a major problem for him.
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CNN’s Wolf Blitzer to Donald Trump. On Tuesday Trump continued to push the discredited right-wing conspiracy theory that President Obama was not born in this country.
Donald, you’re beginning to sound a little ridiculous, I have to tell you.
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Rev. Doug Koesel, pastor of Blessed Trinity Catholic Church in Cleveland, on the Vatican’s move to intervene and reform the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, an umbrella organization that represents the leaders of most U.S. nuns.
The problem with the Vatican approach is that it places the nuns squarely on the side of Jesus and the Vatican on the side of tired old men.
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Evan Wolfson, head of the gay rights group Freedom to Marry, on Thursday’s federal appeals court ruling that declared the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional.
This ruling will return the federal government to its historic role of respecting marriages performed in the states, without carving out a ‘gay exception’ that denies thousands of protections.
