VOICES OF EXTREMISM

THE RADICAL RIGHT IN THEIR OWN WORDS

• There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that sanctifies the separation of church and state. Pat Robertson, October 2, 1984, "700 Club"
• You say, "You're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that and the other thing" - nonsense! I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the anti-Christ! I can love the people who hold false opinions, but I don't have to be nice to them. Pat Robertson, January 14, 1991, "700 Club"
• Just like Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history. Pat Robertson, 1993 interview with columnist Molly Ivins
• Individual Christians are the only ones really - and, and Jewish people, those who trust the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - are the only ones that are qualified to have reign, because hopefully they'll be governed by God and submitted to him. Pat Robertson, January 11, 1985, "700 Club"
• [Separation of church and state is] a Socialist myth. Robert Simonds, Citizens for Excellence in Education, July 15, 1992 Wall Street Journal
• Our purpose must be to spread the gospel on the new mission that the Lord has opened - public high schools. ... Yes, the so-called "wall of separation" between church and state has begun to crumble. Jay Alan Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice, CASE Bulletin, July 1990
• Every one of is called to be one of God's priests. When you walk into your [school] building, you can claim it for Christ. Forrest Turpen, Christian Educators Association International, Hartford Currant, summer 1988
• They (the "radical left") have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's a lie of the left, and we're not going to take it anymore. Pat Robertson, November 12, 1993, "God and Country" rally, Greenville, South Carolina
• [The United States is] a once-Christian nation that has been force-fed the poisons of paganism. Pat Buchanan, Right from the Beginning, 1988
• Our goal must be simple: We must have a Christian Nation built on God's law, on the Ten Commandments. No apologies. Randall Terry, speech during anti-abortion rally in Willoughby Hills, Ohio, July 1993
• There are 15,700 school districts in America. When we get an active Christian parents' committee in all districts, we can take complete control of all local school boards. This would allow us to determine all local policy; select good textbooks; good curriculum programs; superintendents and principals. Our time has come! Robert Simonds, Citizens for Excellence in Education, undated fund-raising letter
• The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. Pat Robertson, Summer 1992 fund-raising letter
• ...If a local community provides for school prayer, and the children of that community voluntarily choose to participate in it, this collective decision allows God to intercede in the public dimension of that community. Restoring school prayer will allow God's angels to leap into action to arrest hellish energy patterns before they can sprout and spill over into the public square. Steven Showers, Director of The School Prayer Resource Center, Newbury Park, California, in a letter to The Simi Valley Star & Enterprise, January 1, 1995
• The Constitution of the United States is a marvelous document for self government by Christian people. But the minute you turn the document into the hands of non-Christian people and atheistic people they can use it to destroy the very foundation of our society. And that's what's been happening. Pat Robertson, December 30, 1981 "700 Club"

Most of these quotes were provided by Harry Schwartzbart of the San Fernando Valley, California chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. If you find these sentiments as frightening as I do, then do something about it. Drop me an email and I'll let you know how you can get hold of Harry, or you can contact the National chapter of AU, or National PEARL. Their web pages are linked to my main page

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