Sanford Bishop: “I would be appalled to have that kind of comparison contrast made to mention religious items. Religion is what means…”

“I would be appalled to have that kind of comparison contrast made to mention religious items. Religion is what means most to people. It is revered. It is something that is sacred, whatever that expression may be. If it is religious, it is deeply held and deeply felt. For those of us who feel that a person's right to express his or her religious traditions, whether it is the wearing of religious items, a crucifix, a menorah, or whatever the sacred item might be, and to have that item in his or her possession, and to have that equated with pornography, I think, is abominable. I think it is certainly inconsistent with the noble high ideals of our Founding Fathers when they founded this country and when they wrote what I believe to be one of the greatest documents ever written in history, and that is our Constitution, next to the Bible, of course. I feel very strongly that this is wrong, that the interpretation, the pendulum, has swung too far in that direction, and we need to right a wrong. I believe that the way to do that is through the enactment of a Constitutional amendment to set it straight once and for all.”