On the recordMarch 25, 2014
Well, I want to thank the gentleman from Texas for allowing me to participate in this discussion, because this really is the issue of our day. People on a political level are talking about ObamaCare and how ObamaCare is destroying our economy. It is hurting job prospects, and it is not allowing us to move into the robust growth we would be in without ObamaCare. But it is even more fundamental; and I think the gentleman from Texas, as a judge and as a lawyer, has been laying out, really, his broken heart over what he observed today at the Supreme Court. I share that same level of heartbrokenness because this really is the whole game. This is the whole ball of wax. Because if you look at what America was founded upon and why we were founded in the first place, it was so that we could be a free land made up of free people who are allowed to exercise our own moral conscience--and not just in the realm of belief, freedom of belief, but also freedom of speech and freedom of expression. But even one step further, it is the exercise of our religious liberties. There was a case that the gentleman from Texas would remember. It was during the Vietnam war era. It was called Tinker v. Des Moines, and the very famous holding out of that Supreme Court decision was this: students did not have to check their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door.…
