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On the recordNovember 13, 2017
The First Amendment allows the free exercise of religion. It doesn't just allow you to think what you want to think, to meet in a closet somewhere and never express yourself.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses the broad protections of the First Amendment regarding religious expression.

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