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On the recordJuly 30, 2003
As head of the world's largest Catholic fraternal organization and as a former member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, I am dismayed that the course of Mr. Pryor's nomination compels me to make a point which by now should be obvious: a good Catholic can also be a good public servant. Much as I would wish otherwise, a continuation of the trend that critics of Mr. Pryor's nomination have set in motion will compel American Catholics to face religious bigotry of a kind many of us thought to be extinct in this nation.
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Rick Santorum
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Editor's note · Context

Discussing concerns over religious bigotry in relation to the nomination of Mr. Pryor.

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