Political Quotes

“I appreciate being given this opportunity to talk on this very important issue. Essentially stripped of all the verbiage, this amendment seeks a couple of things: basically to permit and to guarantee a right to pray in schools and, secondly, to afford equality of treatment between faith-based social service providers and treat them the same as secular ones. So reduced to its simplest terms, this amendment provides more free speech by removing prayer in a public space from the list of constitutionally forbidden conduct. It recognizes the value to our society, as the founders and framers did, of religiously-based providers of social services. So it expands free speech. It does not narrow it. It restores free speech to the original dimensions that we find in the Declaration of Independence, where God is mentioned four times. That must drive some people crazy when they go by the Archives, knowing that in that building is the Declaration of Independence, our country's birth certificate, that talks about the Creator and nature and nature's God in four different places. It certainly would not pass muster with the Supreme Court today. So this expands free speech and seeks to correct constitutional distortions that have crept into our jurisprudence as a result of a series of misbegotten court decisions. Now, our Nation, we all agree, was founded by people searching for freedom.…”