Wade Miller

And regardless of what people think, we have to do this on behalf of our constituents.

And that's going to take people who understand how to navigate this legally.

There are First Amendment protections.

The Christian majority in Texas is not seeking to forcibly convert people to Christianity.

We have a perspective that if you want to be a Christian, we welcome you.

Let me tell you about Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

But we're not out there trying to pass laws demanding that people do that.

We're not trying to pass laws to adhere to the Bible outside of just natural rights.

You can't murder people, that kind of stuff.

However, Islam is the exact opposite.

And we need people to understand that distinction and get out of this failed framing that this is somehow a First Amendment issue and you can't speak out against this.

People have a right to be Muslim.

And yes, they do have a right to be Muslim.

They do not have a right to try to subvert our entire constitutional order with their Islamic ideology.

And that's the way we have to approach this.

And people who are going to attack this and stop it

need to understand those distinctions.

They need to do so responsibly.

They need to understand this from a statutory perspective.

They need to understand this from a legal perspective.