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Karen Bass: “Of course, we need to have religious freedom. But I think about, in some of the places that we have been talking about…”

On the recordDecember 5, 2017
Of course, we need to have religious freedom. But I think about, in some of the places that we have been talking about today we can have all the religious freedom in the world, but if people don't have food, if people don't have a way to survive, then they are going to go with whatever group, organization, religion is going to provide them a way to survive.
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Karen Bass
Democratic · California

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Bass highlights the necessity of addressing basic needs alongside religious freedom.

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