#hen

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

If heaven is understood more as God's space on earth than as an ethereal region apart from the essential reality we know, then what happens on earth matters even more than we think, for the Christian life becomes a continuation of the unfolding work of Jesus, who will one day return to set the world to rights. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#becomes #christian #christian life #continuation #day

Whenever there is news of a terrible shooting, I wonder why America has so miserably failed to enact even common-sense gun legislation. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#common-sense #enact #even #failed #gun

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american life #basic #became #britain

But then there is the one who seems to have a hard time separating the actor's work from reality. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#hard #hard time #reality #seems #separating

I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#band #even #i #less #minutes

If you're playing the a historical character that's in the public consciousness, then obviously you've got to make an effort to look like that person and there's a huge amount of historical record there that you have to kind of comply to. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#character #comply #consciousness #effort #got

I had a bunch of different hair colors. I was experimenting to see what I liked. It started off brown, then I did red, then I got really, really blonde! ↗

— Leighton Meester

#brown #bunch #colors #did #different

I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#deeper #digging #go #i #knew

I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great! ↗

— Harry Melling

#bad #being #click #could #figure