Louie Gohmert: “I thank my friend from Virginia, truly a conscience in this body, for those profound words of challenge, bringing us…”

“I thank my friend from Virginia, truly a conscience in this body, for those profound words of challenge, bringing us back to the roots from which this great Nation has grown. And I realize the time grows late, and it is the last hour that we will be in session this week. And if the gentleman would indulge me, I know that we have a President who has said we're not a Christian Nation, and I will not debate that. But it is so critical to look at our roots. And so I would like to direct, Mr. Speaker, back to the words of Roger Williams when he said: ``That forced worship stinks in God's nostrils, that it denies Christ Jesus yet to come; that in these flames about religion, there is no other prudent, Christian way of preserving peace in the world, but by permission of different consciences.'' These are the words of our Founders that set this Nation in motion, that pointed us in the direction of religious tolerance.”