verses = [
  {
    text: "If men get into a fight with one another, and the wife of one intervenes to rescue her husband from the grip of his opponent by reaching out and seizing his genitals, you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.",
    reference: "Deuteronomy 25:11-12"
  },
  {
    text: "For six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.",
    reference: "Exodus 35:2"
  },
  {
    text: "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death; their blood is upon them. ",
    reference: "Leviticus 20:13"
  },
  {
    text: "When a slave-owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. But if the slave survives for a day or two, there is no punishment; for the slave is the owner’s property. ",
    reference: "Exodus 21:20-21"
  },
  {
    text: "'Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple.'",
    reference: "Luke 14:26"
  },
  {
    text: "Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock.",
    reference: "Psalm 137:9"
  },
  {
    text: "Slaves, be subject to your masters with all reverence, not only to those who are good and equitable but also to those who are perverse.",
    reference: "1 Peter 2:18 NAB"
  },
  {
    text: "Finally, the woman died.",
    reference: "Matthew 22:27"
  },
  {
    text: "I am weary of holding it in--indeed i cannot.",
    reference: "Jeremiah 20:9b"
  },
  {
    text: "Then Saul said, "Thus shall you say to David, 'The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king's enemies.'"",
    reference: "1 Samuel 18:25 ESV"
  },
  {
    text: "You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.",
    reference: "Ezekiel 16:17 NIV"
  },
  {
    text: "Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to an alien living in any of your towns and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner...",
    reference: "Deuteronomy 14:21"
  },
  {
    text: "<span style=\"font-size: 0.85em\">Narrated Anas:</span><br/>The Prophet said, &quot;Listen and obey (your chief) even if an Ethiopian whose head is like a raisin were made your chief.&quot;",
    reference: "The Hadith, Volume 1, Book 11, Number 662"
  },
  {
    text: "<span style=\"font-size: 0.85em\">Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:</span><br/>I heard Allah's Apostle saying, &quot;People are just like camels, out of one hundred, one can hardly find a single camel suitable to ride.&quot;",
    reference: "The Hadith, Volume 8, Book 76, Number 505"
  },
  {
    text: "Buraida reported on the authority of his father that Allah’s Apostle (may peace be upon him) said: He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine.",
    reference: "The Hadith, Book 028, Number 5612"
  },
  {
    text: "<span style=\"font-size: 0.85em\">Narrated Abu Huraira:</span><br/>The Prophet said, &quot;A wound which a Muslim receives in Allah's cause will appear on the Day of Resurrection as it was at the time of infliction; blood will be flowing from the wound and its color will be that of the blood but will smell like musk.&quot;",
    reference: "The Hadith, Volume 1, Book 4, Number 238"
  },
  {
    text: "<span style=\"font-size: 0.85em\">Narrated 'Amr bin Maimun:</span><br/>During the pre-Islamic period of ignorance I saw a she-monkey surrounded by a number of monkeys. They were all stoning it, because it had committed illegal sexual intercourse. I too, stoned it along with them.",
    reference: "The Hadith, Volume 5, Book 58, Number 188"
  }
];

mftm_quotes = [
  {
    text: '&quot;The government...wants us to sing \'God Bless America.\' No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people.&quot;',
    minister: 'Jeremiah Wright',
    link: 'http://www.bumpshack.com/2008/03/18/pastor-jeremiah-wright-controversy-quotes/',
    image: 'jeremiah_wright.jpg'
  },
  {
    text: 'The Jews\' own rebellion had birthed the seed of antisemitism that would bring destruction to them for centuries to come...',
    minister: 'John Hagee',
    link: 'http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080522/pl_afp/usvote',
    image: 'john_hagee.jpg'
  },
  {
    text: 'Oh, damn! Where did you come from? I\'m white. I\'m entitled. There\'s a black man stealing my show!',
    minister: 'Michael Pfleger',
    link: 'http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_re_us/obama_pfleger',
    image: 'michael_pfleger.jpg'
  }
];