Sanford Bishop: “All we are trying to acknowledge in the language that would be substituted is the title of the very amendment that we…”

“All we are trying to acknowledge in the language that would be substituted is the title of the very amendment that we are voting on, the Religious Freedom Amendment, and we are saying that the purpose is to secure freedom of religion. It is titled the Religious Freedom Amendment, RFA. Why that would be ironic or contrary to the desires of people who want to have the Religious Freedom Amendment passed, I do not know. It seems to me to make good sense. It is ecumenical. It will support and protect the religious traditions of all people, not just those people who believe in the God, capital G-O-D. It would reflect those who believe in any other deity or no deity. I personally am Christian. I believe in God, in Jesus. However there are others who do not, and I respect their right under this Constitution of the United States to that belief.”