Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond.
Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, on why she believes single women voted overwhelmingly for President Obama.
(B)ecause when you’re married, abortion is not really — or contraception for that matter — is not maybe a huge part of your life.
———————————–
Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, in a post-election sermon delivered a week after he said President Obama is “paving the way for the future reign of the Antichrist.”
It means during the last seven years, there will be no freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom of commerce. America as we know it will be gone by the last seven years of the great Tribulation. America is going to end, the Bible says, because this world is going to end.
———————————–
TV evangelist Pat Robertson, offering his assessment of General David Petraeus’ extramarital affair with his biographer.
Who knows? The man’s off in a foreign land and he’s lonely and here’s a good looking lady throwing herself at him. I mean, he’s a man.
———————————–
Joel Richardson, author of various right-wing books, offering what he calls a Christian response to President Obama’s re-election.
For now, my country is governed by a man many of us feel is a truly unrighteous individual, a race-baiter, a divider, a liar, a destroyer.
———————————–
President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Cardinal Timothy Dolan, indicating that the Roman Catholic church will not comply with the Obama administration requirement that most employers provide health insurance covering birth control.
The only thing we’re certainly not prepared to do is give in. We’re not violating our consciences. I would say no door is closed except for the door to capitulation.
