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Chris Smith: The freedom of religion is the key human right. It is clearly the first freedom from which all others flow.

On the recordJuly 22, 2015
The freedom of religion is the key human right. It is clearly the first freedom from which all others flow.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith emphasizes the importance of religious freedom as fundamental to human rights.

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