Dave Brat
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And so we need to get our game back up.
The idea, right, this country has been very generous when it comes to human rights, right?
We are the only tradition, the Christian tradition is the only tradition that came up, first of all, in the first place with human rights in about the 1300s, thanks to you Catholics.
So I'm giving you a nice shout out there.
And then we have achieved them fully with the United Nations and the rest of the countries around the world do not have mature human rights systems.
So they come over.
We protect minority rights.
We protect their right to religion, to speech, to everything.
And they do not do likewise.
This is kind of new.
We used to be a little more muscular.
And so Jerry Falwell, here's what he had to say to his critics on this kind of thing.
And this has to do kind of with a founding and the initial rights we had.
Here's how Falwell responded to his critics in 1980.
I'm being accused of being controversial and political.
I'm not political.
Moral issues that have been made political, I still fight.
It isn't my fault that they've made these moral issues political.
It couldn't be more timely.
But because they have done that doesn't stop the preachers of God from addressing them, right?