Cord Byrd: “I hope the Senate will waste no time in throwing this back in the face of this stupid judge. Think of the history of…”

“I hope the Senate will waste no time in throwing this back in the face of this stupid judge. Think of the history of this country, the men and the women who have shed their blood for this country. The men who founded this country, who wrote the Constitution in Philadelphia, George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin--what would they say if they were living today? A country that was founded by men and women who believed in a higher power--we do not all have to be Baptists, we do not all have to be Methodists, we do not all have to be Christians. But the people by and large who founded this country, who hewed the forests, who dredged the rivers, who built the bridges and who created a country from sea to shining sea believed in a higher power. What is this country coming to? What is it coming to? 'Blessed is the Nation whose God is the Lord.' He can be your Lord. He can be mine. What are we coming to when we cannot speak God's name? Let them put me in jail. I will read that Bible right here on this desk. I have done it before. I will do it again. I have recited the pledge and so has every other Member of this body time and time again. Come, Judge Goodwin of the Ninth Circuit, put us in jail. I say the people of America are not going to stand for this. I, for one, am not going to stand for this country's being ruled by a bunch of atheists.”