Douglas Alexander: “Again, thoroughly unpopular. Alabama is interested in football and…”

On the recordNovember 5, 2003

Again, thoroughly unpopular. Alabama is interested in football and Alabama is interested in prayer, and for a public official to write every school and tell them they cannot pray before a football game is not an easy thing to do, even if the law does require it. Then, on the issue of abortion, he is a Roman Catholic and he has a religious belief about it, but did I understand the Senator from Alabama to say that he told the legislature that he could not enforce a law they passed limiting abortion because it was unconstitutional?

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Discussing the intersection of religion, law, and public policy in Alabama.

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