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John Kennedy: “If civil liberties and legal rights exist only in the absence of a neighbor's religious objection, then they are not…”

On the recordJune 24, 2019
If civil liberties and legal rights exist only in the absence of a neighbor's religious objection, then they are not rights, but empty promises.
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John Kennedy
Republican · Louisiana

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizes that civil rights cannot be conditional on religious objections.

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