Sam Brownback: “This has been a 40-year debate, and we have engaged and embarked on a great debate about which these judges are front…”

“This has been a 40-year debate, and we have engaged and embarked on a great debate about which these judges are front and center, and it is potentially a collision course, some may say, between those who believe in God and that He has a role to play in the cultural and moral fabric of this Nation and those who prefer to sanitize our public institutions of any reference to God. We should at least allow the vast majority of Americans who believe in God to honor Him in public, as our Founders did, and not be forced to conceal Him from the public square. The four nominees currently being filibustered all believe in God, as do 90 percent of the American public. Should they be excluded from the appellate courts because of their faith? Their deeply held convictions just happen to mirror those of George Washington, most of the Founding Fathers, as well as some of the greatest Americans in our history-- Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Dwight Eisenhower, and Martin Luther King, Jr.”