1 / 11

Can't Help Himself - Oh, to be a fly on the wall of E.W. Jackson's running mate. Since being tapped to run for lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket, the Virginia pastor has been the subject of weekly headlines based on statements made on the campaign trail and in the past. Here are his thoughts on government, slavery, President Obama – and more. – Joyce Jones (Photo: Courtesy of E.W. Jackson)

2 / 11

On Government and Slavery - "By now, by this time, we only have 20 percent of Black children being raised in two-parent monogamous families with a married man and woman raising those children. It wasn't slavery that did that. It was government that did that trying to solve problems that only God can solve, and that only we as human beings can solve." (Photo: Alex Wong/Newsmakers)

3 / 11

On Democrats - "I liken them to slave masters who brag about how good their slaves are and how well-behaved they are but let them try to be free, let them try to escape and then you find out that they don't really think very much of them." (Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

4 / 11

On Planned Parenthood and the KKK - "Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to Black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democratic Party and the Black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide."(Photo: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

5 / 11

On Liberals and the KKK - “Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill Black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux Klan, lynching and slavery and Jim Crow ever did, now that’s a fact.”   (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

6 / 11

On Obama and Muslim Sensibilities - “Obama clearly has Muslim sensibilities. He sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective. His construct of ‘The Muslim World’ is unique in modern diplomacy. It is said that only The Muslim Brotherhood and other radical elements of the religion use that concept. It is a call to unify Muslims around the world.”(Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

7 / 11

On Don't Ask, Don't Tell - "The new Marine motto: ‘The Few, the Proud, the Sexually Twisted.’ Good luck selling that to strong young males who would otherwise love to defend their country. What virile young man wants to serve in a military like that?"(Photo: MUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/GettyImages)

8 / 11

On Gays - “Their minds are perverted, they’re frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally and they see everything through the lens of homosexuality. When they talk about love they’re not talking about love, they’re talking about homosexual sex.”(Photo: UPI/Alexis C. Glenn /Landov)

9 / 11

On Yoga and Satan - “The purpose of such meditation is to empty oneself. … [Satan] is happy to invade the empty vacuum of your soul and possess it."(Photo: JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images)

Photo By Photo: JGI/Tom Grill/Getty Images

10 / 11

On Evolution - "Scientists have made much of the fact that chimpanzees have been trained to use sign language. They take this as proof that primates are our ancestors because they, like us, have 'language capacity.' It is amazing the length to which people will go to prove what is so palpably false." (Photo: Herbert/Getty Images)

11 / 11

On Controversial Remarks - “Look, sure, people could debate about whether I’ve always said things as artfully as I might have. As a minister I say things to have an impact on people. To have them confront the truth which doesn’t always work unfortunately in the political sphere but the truth is the truth.”(Photo: Courtesy of E.W. Jackson)