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Rick Santorum: “I never thought as a first-generation American whose parents and grandparents loved freedom and came here because they…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2012
I never thought as a first-generation American whose parents and grandparents loved freedom and came here because they didn't want the government telling them what to believe and how to believe it. That we had a first amendment that actually stood for freedom of conscience, that we would have a president of the United States who would roll over that and impose his secular values on the people of this country.
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Rick Santorum
Republican · Pennsylvania

Editor's note · Context

Santorum criticizes the Obama administration for imposing secular values and undermining the First Amendment.

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