“Our family are evangelical Christians. This is the reason our church will no longer be chartering our troop or have Scout Sundays. What do gay Boy Scouts grow up to be? Gay Boy Scout leaders.”

– Mari LaCom of Chatsworth, Calif., after the Boy Scouts of America voted to allow gay boys to be members.

“This theology is, in a word, abusive, for it blames the victim for whatever calamity, abuse, or tragedy she suffers and says it is deserved.”

– Evangelical writer Rachel Held Evans, criticizing Minneapolis pastor and author John Piper for using natural disasters, such as the Oklahoma City tornado, to explain the wrath of God.

“It’s time that clarity and courage are rewarded rather than harassed and dismissed.”

– Victims’ advocate Robert Hoatson, a former Catholic priest, on why he’s joining a new group called Catholic Whistleblowers to help hold the Catholic Church accountable on sexual abuse. He was quoted by The New York Times.

“Sometimes I doze off, the fatigue of the day makes you fall asleep, but he [God] understands.”

– Pope Francis, speaking about his nighttime prayers to a crowd in St. Peter’s Square.

“Why not give convicted abortion “Dr.” Gosnell the same sentence he gave innocent newborn babies … snipping his neck with scissors?”

– Christian PR guru Mark DeMoss, in a Twitter message after Philadelphia abortionist Kermitt Gosnell was sentenced to life in prison and avoided the death penalty.

“Don’t get me wrong, Gosnell’s crimes rank among the most vile I’ve ever known to transpire in my short life. But clamoring for his death perpetuates a culture of death. Pro-lifers must stay focused on saving babies, not on killing their killers.”

– Ashley E. McGuire, a senior fellow at The Catholic Association, writing in The Washington Post about why the anti-abortion movement should oppose the death penalty for convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell.

“Jesus says [to] love our ­enemies. So I was sitting in Starbucks and thought, ‘Maybe I’m the one person who needs to do something.’ ”

– Martha Mullen, a Virginia woman and mental health counselor who helped arrange the burial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a Muslim cemetery in Doswell, Va. She was quoted by The Boston Globe

“I actually wasn’t thinking of this as an act of civil disobedience or church disobedience. I was thinking of it as a response to my son.”

– The Rev. Thomas Ogletree, a United Methodist theologian and former dean of Yale Divinity School, who is facing church charges for presiding at the same-sex wedding of his son. He was quoted by The New York Times.

“We take an oath to do this. Can I pick and choose? No. Can I separate the sins from the sinners? No. We are burying a dead body. That’s what we do.”

– Funeral director Peter Stefan of Worcester, Mass., talking to The Associated Press about the controversy from his handling of the body of Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev

“It is not surprising that our shepherds fall short of the high standards of the Christian Faith. It is surprising that they don’t even rise to the low standards of the secular world.”

— Catholic blogger Kevin O’Brien, writing about the scandal involving an accused Catholic priest who was allowed continued access to children despite a lifetime ban agreed to by prosecutors and Newark Archbishop John Myers