"Women have the same privileges and opportunities as men, given the New Testament." ― Tony Campolo Topic(s): Politics Tags: privileges, women More From Tony Campolo "What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped." "But I think it’s up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn’t be up to the government." "Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church." More In Politics "Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."― Henry Adams "Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."― George Jean Nathan "Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb."― Spiro T. Agnew