Quote by Tony Campolo

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.


I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal

Summary

The quote expresses the idea that the state should grant legal rights to all couples who wish to be joined together in a lifelong commitment. The speaker suggests that the church, on the other hand, should have the authority to bless unions as it sees fit and refer to them as marriages. The quote highlights the separation of legal and religious institutions while simultaneously advocating for equal recognition and validation of all committed relationships.

Topics

Legal
By Tony Campolo
Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables yo

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.

Russell Green

Education

I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better p

I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.

Ashlee Simpson

Amazing

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood an

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Gavin Bryars

Technology

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who aske

Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bernard Baruch

Questions

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure o

Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men Truth

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences.

Karl Marx

Science

Works of imagination should be written in very plain languag

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Imagination

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and

The Senate is a body of old men charged with high duties and misdemeanors.

Ambrose Bierce

Congress

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

Curtis Strange

Effort

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Failure

Whoso loves Believes the impossible.

Whoso loves Believes the impossible.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Love

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a scie

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

Hans Reichenbach

Science