"Verbatim"."If only on weekends, then why am I doing it?" --Afra Mirza, 8, upset that her parents only allow her to fast on weekends during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan (Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper , Oct. 15, 2004) "[Homosexual] tendencies are clearly unbiblical, unnatural, and definitely un-African." --Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, praising Africa's Anglican bishops' statements against same-sex unions and gay clergy (The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, Oct. 28, 2004) "I read more and more and came to realize I'd always been a Satanist, just simply never knew." --Chris Cramner, the first registered Satanist in the British Navy (BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News, Oct. 24, 2004) "One of the many things that annoys me about religion is that it's arrogance masquerading as humility. How arrogant to think that you know what happens to you after you die. You don't." --HBO talk show host and former Roman Catholic Bill Maher William Maher, Jr., (pronounced: /mɑɹ/) (born January 20 1956) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. (Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 24, 2004) "People have said, 'isn't it nice to see a bishop not in robes and holding a crozier crozier see crosier. but in cycling shorts getting wet and mucking in with the other cyclists?'" --Archbishop Vincent Nichols of Birmingham, England, the "Lance Armstrong of the Catholic Church," on his 250-mile bike ride to raise money for his archdiocese's youth ministry (The Tablet, Sept. 18, 2004) |
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