Statements about Religion
Sharron Angle supported "a Scientology plan to give massages to prisoners."
The Treaty of Tripoli signed by President John Adams was "his outreach to Muslims."
John Paul Stevens is the only Protestant on the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope."
The Obama White House is renaming Christmas trees "holiday trees."
"The ACLU has filed a suit to have all military cross-shaped headstones removed."
Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."
"If you actually took the number of Muslims [sic] Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
"The Pentagon under the Obama administration has just acknowledged seizing and burning the privately owned Bibles of American soldiers serving in Afghanistan."
"You can't read a speech by George Washington . . . without hearing him reference God, the Almighty."
The Rev. Rick Warren "has called Christians who advance a social gospel Marxists."
Sarah Palin was repeating "Abraham Lincoln's words" in discussing the war in Iraq.
"It (Georgia) was one of the earliest Christian nations. The king of then-Georgia in the third century converted to Christianity."
Obama said he would "stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
McCain sought the political support of minister John Hagee, "who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church 'the Antichrist' and a 'false cult.'"
"The pastor McCain calls his 'spiritual guide,' Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a 'false religion.' "
Obama "supports hate-crimes expansion ... potentially putting churches at risk if they preach the truth about homosexuality."
"According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ ... will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent ... is it OBAMA??"
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