Dan Coats: “But that is misdirected love. True love goes beyond ourselves. It reaches out in love of others. This vote is an appeal…”

“But that is misdirected love. True love goes beyond ourselves. It reaches out in love of others. This vote is an appeal to a higher purpose, what Lincoln said "is the better angels of our nature." I appeal to my colleagues, for the sake of a larger question, of a higher purpose, to reach to the better angels, to the larger questions--life, liberty, equality, justice--for the sake of the future of this great experiment in democracy, to support us in this effort, to say that we will not promote a culture of death. We will not embrace the culture of death. We will embrace a culture of life. We will keep extending the circle of equality, justice, passion, and love for the least among us. Clearly, today, at this defining moment, that issue is in great peril.”