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Bob Barr: “I probably would have said they were crazy. This is America. This is America. This is the land that has as its most…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1996
I probably would have said they were crazy. This is America. This is America. This is the land that has as its most basic building block the family unit, a marriage between a man and a woman. But here we are, and it is indeed an issue. It is an issue that is being used by the homosexual extremists to divide America. It is part of a deliberate, coldly calculated power move to confront the basic social institutions on which our country not only was founded but has prospered and will continue to prosper, thank you.
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Bob Barr
Georgia
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Discussing the definition of marriage and its implications during a congressional debate.

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