I Believe That Religious Witness Should Not Mobilize Public Authority To Impose A View Where A Decision Is Inherently Private In Nature Or Where People Are Deeply Divided About Whether It Is... Americans Are Plainly And Persistently Divided About Abortion And The Fiat Of Government Cannot Settle The Issue As A Matter Of Conscience Or Of Conduct.

-Edward Kennedy

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I Believe That Religious Witness Should Not

Edward Kennedy

I Believe That Religious Witness Should Not Mobilize Public Authority To Impose A View Where A Decision Is Inherently Private In Nature Or Where People Are Deeply Divided About Whether It Is... Americans Are Plainly And Persistently Divided About Abortion And The Fiat Of Government Cannot Settle The Issue As A Matter Of Conscience Or Of Conduct.

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In The United States Senate, One Of The Things I Observed In The Early Days - And It's Still Used - And That Is That You Take Someone's Argument And Then You Misrepresent It And Misstate And Disagree With It. And It's Very Effective. I've Done It Myself A Number Of Times. But Eventually, Eventually People Catch On.

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