Ana Kasparian Quotes

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.'

A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.

We need a Congress that understands the sanctity of life, the sanctity of traditional values, the sanctity of traditional marriage.

Ever since the 1980s and the Moral Majority, evangelicals have been loyal to the Republican Party, giving their votes in return for promises on abortion, family, and other arenas of policy which promised them protection for their churches and their priorities.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.

The sexual fundamentalists have taken over the control of the Republican Party.

The rise of the South produced the religiosity of the Republican Party.

Evangelical Christians, who once were a ridiculed irrelevant sectarian movement, have, over just three decades, become a powerful voting bloc that can no longer be ignored.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.

There are reasons why Religious Right Evangelicals will continue to dominate religious discourse, not only in their own sector of the Christian community, but also in what transpires in mainline denominations.

My greatest concern is that Mitt Romney seldom addresses the social issues publicly... I'm referring to the sanctity of human life, the traditional definition of marriage, and religious liberty.

Republicans have transformed our party into the political arm of the conservative Christians.

This Republican party of Lincoln has become a theocracy.

Conservative Christianity is headquartered in the South.

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

Once the religious right got their beachhead in the Republican Party in 1980, they expanded it. Even Barry Goldwater was extremely hostile to the religious right, but Reagan catered to them. The religious right then expanded their base and that drove the moderates out.

I support anyone who supports what's in the Republican platform, which includes support for traditional marriage.

I am an unapologetic Christian, constitutional conservative, pro-life, Second Amendment-loving American!

I myself am Catholic, and many Catholics have values that are a priority for Republicans, especially as they relate to marriage and life.

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

I believe the family is the foundation of America - and that we must fight to protect and strengthen it. I believe in the sanctity of human life. I believe that people and their elected representatives should make our laws, not unelected judges.

The religious right is turning the Republican party into a revival tent.

The only reason we have a pro-life movement in this country is because of the Catholic people and the Catholic Church.