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Ernest Istook: “Yes. The ones that they categorize as offensive, if it is a religious symbol or if it is sexually suggestive or…”

On the recordMay 5, 1998
Yes. The ones that they categorize as offensive, if it is a religious symbol or if it is sexually suggestive or pornographic. But do you see the connection? Why do they lump a religious item or symbol in the category of things that are offensive to people? That is exactly what they have done. They treat it as something that is suspect or something that is dangerous, which is wrong to do.
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Ernest Istook
Oklahoma

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Discussing the categorization of religious symbols as offensive.

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