The First Amendment Defense Act preserves the core of the American experiment and safeguards the values that we all hold dear: diversity, human dignity, equality, and freedom for all people.

You do not have to check your beliefs, right? That is what this country is about.

Members of the committee, the real test of liberty is what happens when we disagree, and laws that protect views on marriage promote tolerance.

Freedom of religion is not only the right to worship in private, but it is also the right to publicly exercise our religion without fear of government interference.

The First Amendment Defense Act is a reasonable, rational, and important step forward in the protection of religious beliefs and moral convictions regarding marriage.

What an individual or an organization believes about marriage is not and never should be any of the government's business.

This bill does not take anything away from any individual or any group because it does not modify any of our existing civil rights protections.

The need for religious liberty hits close to home for me.

This right is in its nature an unalienable right.

no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.

They deleted all emails that they did not return to the State Department, and the lawyers cleaned their devices in such a way as to preclude complete forensic recovery.