Willie Hefner: “I had signed on to support this amendment, and I started calling some of my friends that I had known for years. For some…”

“I had signed on to support this amendment, and I started calling some of my friends that I had known for years. For some 16 years I traveled all over this country and into Canada and places, singing gospel music, and I have been in every kind of church that my colleagues can imagine. I have been in the churches where their religious beliefs led them to take up the serpent. I never did get into that too much, but I have been in all kind of churches. My grandfather started Happy Hill Baptist Church in Alabama, where I am still a member. I went there last Sunday. About 40 people. People got up and testified and talked about what God had done for them. Over these 16 years that I traveled all over the country, I have seen every type of religious philosophy. You would think from some of the calls that we have had in our office that only the people that support this amendment can be Christians. You would believe, if you believe these calls that we are having, that unless you support this amendment, that when you stand before the bar of God and you stand before the bar of judgment, they are going to say, 'Sorry, you cannot come in here because you did not support the Istook amendment.'”