Quotes by Melody Barnes

“The role of moderate and progressive religious organizations can be quite significant. History provides that lesson for us.”

“To their credit, part of what has happened is that the religious right had a much larger megaphone - that while the civil-rights movements and those other movements were under way, the religious right became really concerned about that and, to their tactical credit, developed media outlets and developed a way of communicating with people who shared many of their views to try to elevate their goals in a way that moderate and progressive religious leaders did not.”

“Theres not a desire to take the model of the religious right and change some of the words and, voila, you have the views of the moderate and progressive religious movement - but in fact to elevate the voices so that theres an elevation of the values and the views of those who come from the moderate and progressive community.”