Mark Warner: “I simply want to remind all Senators that the very purpose for America was religious freedom. This Nation was founded by…”

“I simply want to remind all Senators that the very purpose for America was religious freedom. This Nation was founded by persons who left foreign shores and sailed into the unknown to take risks that today are almost incomprehensible in magnitude. With only the very rudiments of navigation, the bare necessities of life, to plow out across largely unchartered seas to come to a land, to settle that land for one purpose--religious freedom. Therefore, this issue brings about a responsibility on every single American, irrespective of race, color, creed, or religion to unite together, arm in arm, brothers and sisters, to fight this crime and to preserve the very reason for our forefathers coming to settle this Nation.”