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As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism'... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition.

There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

One can't understand the Christian Right and similar movements unless one sees them as reactive - they're reacting to what they call secular humanism.

We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.