Dan Coats: “I want to say there is no legislation that necessarily can adequately address this underlying problem, but there are…”

“I want to say there is no legislation that necessarily can adequately address this underlying problem, but there are certainly things that I think we can do to encourage and to nurture, to provide respect and, hopefully, some measure of support to these institutions which... just do remarkable jobs because they go beyond providing mere material needs and meeting those needs, which is important, but they also can transform lives. It is something that government cannot do to the extent that we can constitutionally. And we had the same concerns as we drafted this legislation. Can we constitutionally encourage these mediating institutions? I think our society will find that source of hope that so often is absent from our discussions.”