1.   Religion can be used as a cohesive social force.

2.   And inevitably, then, government uses religion for its own political and secular ends.

3.   And like another action earlier this week, the move seemed to have succeeded in using religion as a political lever.

4.   As with Muslims in Bosnia, Americans can ill afford silence when religion is used to serve oppression.

5.   Being a man of God can be dangerous work in a country where religion is used as a political weapon to defend centuries of discrimination.

6.   But Wolfe warns that trying to move voter blocs using religion is tricky.

7.   He took up the anti-gay cause last spring, using religion as a cover for bigotry.

8.   Henry and Gregory used religion to accomplish political ends and ended up weakening each other.

9.   Hussein said it was hard to accept that people of his own Islamic faith would use their religion to justify such attacks.

10.   Instead, two adversaries in a divorce case are using religion as a weapon against one another, at the ultimate expense of their children.