"When you are in the culture of doing good deeds, taking care of the poor, taking care of the widow, the orphan, not as a means to something else but because this is what true religion should be doing, even the nonbeliever would say, 'Look at that.' There is a certain respect that comes from that."
Jim Daly
President of Focus on the Family, on the organization moving away from culture war-style politics and widening its goals to include everything from immigration reform to decreasing poverty (Huffington Post)
"Religious freedom is not just about religion. It's not just about the right of Roman Catholics to organize a mass, or Muslims to hold a religious funeral, or Baha'is to meet in each others' homes for prayer, or Jews to celebrate High Holy Days together—as important as those rituals are. Religious freedom is also about the right of people to think what they want, say what they think and come together in fellowship without the state looking over their shoulder."
Hillary Rodham Clinton
U.S. secretary of state, on the release of the latest International Religious Freedom Report (RNS)
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