The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for Nov. 9-14.
“The court may have the final legal say. But it doesn’t have the final moral say.”
— R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, about his expectation that the U.S. Supreme Court eventually will approve same-sex marriage nationwide
“I’ve come to see that the strong emotion behind this current push-back stems from deeper concerns, indeed fears experienced by faculty far and wide, fears that are legitimate.”
— Chattanooga State President Jim Catanzaro, saying that fear of change, rather than controversy over his hiring of a top administrator, is behind campus unrest
“We want to be a peaceful city. We don’t want to have any protesters.”
— Rossville Mayor Teddy Harris, on the city’s vote to ban abortion clinics and pill mills
“A woman’s rights shouldn’t depend on her ZIP code.”
— Nora Spencer, with Planned Parenthood Southeast, calling Rossville’s abortion clinic ban “patently unconstitutional”