GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL SPEECH - IOWA FAITH AND FREEDOM SUMMIT

Discusses his faith in Jesus Christ, Stand with Israel, Iran Nuclear Power, Obama redefining the American Dream, Obama dividing the country, unprecedented assault on religious liberty.

Business owners should not have to choose between their business and their religious beliefs. Marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN! The USA did not create religious liberty, religious liberty created the United States of America! My parents left India to come here to America, to be Americans, if they wanted to be Indians, they would have stayed in India. My parents came to America to raise Americans, not Indian - Americans I am tired of hyphenated Americans.

Transcript

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thank you all

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thank you all very much that very generous reception is so great to be

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back here and i won I am five-star York break to be in a church right now

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coming to church make some politicians all nervous I start planning on coming

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to church very often

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I'm in nearly every church in louisiana star offer just in all a joke I warn you

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it is in all dropped from a tardy anyway I was in charge in northwest Louisiana

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as a pastor that was going on and on and on

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speaking longer his congregation was Leslie given how long you've been

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sending maybe you can sympathize

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although this congress anyway at some point the pastor

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is talking about a dear friend is which served in the Army who had

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good just ass and he talked about how he had lost his friend in the service

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all of a sudden a woman woke up in the congregation said

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pastor what service was at 9:30 the 11 o'clock service

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our God is an awesome God amen

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hawk's eye to be here to talk about to my favorite things

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Bay and freedom let's start with a you know as elected officials a candidate

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you get asked a lot of questions

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today up talk to the media all day long I'll a median national me the last few

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questions about schools taxes educational content I remember the

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easiest question I was ever ask is my very first time running for office

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it was the last debate about election we're on live statewide TV there were

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two candidates left was the last

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question I had to answer the question first

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I asked justice they said what was the single

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most important moment in your life our mind you this is live TV

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you can't call a friend is no timeouts again asking me for advice

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you got about thirty seconds to answer yeah I've been blessed

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my life merit of beautiful woman I first met in high school

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at that time I had one beautiful job a little baby girl we were expecting our

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second child

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I can talk about hot wedding day after talk about the first moments I help my

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baby

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my instead this is what I said

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I said the single most important moment in my life is the moment that I found

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Jesus Christ

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are being honest or so it was a moment he found me

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it's not like he was the one that was lost on what lost are sure you just

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briefly how I came off a

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Iran overnight 50 that only took about seven years perhaps

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star with a best friend came up to me ask for Boston said

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lobby I'm gonna miss you when you're not happy

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not on her gym buddy going tell your friends stoplight when you say things

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like that people think you're crazy

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my best friend planted a seed

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the gospel in my life several months later he gave me a Christmas present

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I did not want he gave me my bberry

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first copy of the Bach but he was smart

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he gave me a bottle with my name printed on

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gold letters on the front cover a new I could return it I could exchange it I

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had to keep

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got use that experience to plan another seed

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I don't open up Bible too many years later we're not

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grandfather suddenly died I loved it I open those pages and the truth just

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jumped out at me but one that easy

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I was confused by what I read the guide use even that experience with scripture

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plan to see and are many people plant a seed

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in my life it was finally year later with my best friend that had given me

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this Bible

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invited to come listen am saying in his church

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on LSU campus and in the middle of that music they shot a black and white film

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with an actor playing Jesus bankers

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and I don't know why but after all those years got trolled

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that moment to hit me harder but I've ever been here

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nothing special about that movie nothing special about that after accepting

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gotcha home

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rostov the actor playing Jesus being crucified

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it just hit if that is really

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the Son of God and he's really up there on that cross

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dying because of me down because my sense

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army dying for all humanity that's too easy

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I mean he's up there because I bobby Jindal what I've done

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I'll failed

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how American for me to do anything but get on my knees

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and worship I've made it so complicated as a simple

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as that youth pastor hand out cards

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said you've not accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior

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we want to get to know I felt I was hard we start meeting every mom

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and every week and every day we started

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reading scripture together we start playing together as we read the New

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Testament

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as we read the Gospels like the Bible been written just

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for me the word for jumping

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of the page like Jesus was talking

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me from two thousand years ago and that's why it was so important

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in that moment I was so easy for me to say that

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of the single most important on my life that's easy it's the moment but I found

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Jesus Christ

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moment he found now the one must hope you take away from my

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just when we all have our own testimonies is the importance

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up planting seeds the gospel you make change someone's life

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for all eternity and not even realize not talked a bit about

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my faith I wanna talk in our shift gears love it in talking about freedom

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and what's going on in our country today you know there's a lot that President

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Obama is doing that worries me

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about our country 18 trillion dollars and EPA distrust mother are

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Obamacare we have bureaucrats between

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doctors and their patients you've now got

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the Federal Department education try to force common for

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in our class you got a foreign policy we refuse to stand with Israel

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or about all our RAM to become a nuclear power you've got a president who won't

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even

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name the opponents we faced radical islamic terrorists

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but don't worry he's keeping us safe from those medieval Christians

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my comeback

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so much of this can be undone so much for this beyond done we get a

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conservative

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in the white house but thing that worries me the most

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is what the president is doing to redefine the idea of the American dream

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because the changes he's making our culture to be far more difficult

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to change back when you listen to this present trust divides

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he trusted divided by race by geography by gender by age by

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income we talk about the american dream it's about government spending

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and barring it's about government dependence that's not the government

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dream that is the European nightmare

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and the reason I feel so strongly about this

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is my parents they have live the American dream my dad 19

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the only got past the fifth grade his family grew up in a house without

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electricity without running water

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I know because we heard the stories every

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single day growing up good luck trying to get an allowance from a father like

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that

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here's the amazing thing about my parents

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over forty years ago the very first time a

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ever got on a plane I flew halfway across the world

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to come to Baton Rouge Louisiana you know I try to tell my kids that I

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understand if you couldn't Google

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America bac.n there was no online or no computers at home

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they had never even met someone who had visited louisiana can come back and tell

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them what it was like

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there are coming to an idea as much as they were coming to a place

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there are coming the idea of freedom and opportunity there are coming to the

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American dream and you know I think of the American

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they landed in Baton Rouge by mom went to LSU

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my dad got his first job hauling the yellow

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called company after company

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after finally I got railroad company told we could start on Monday morning I

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love my dad tells his new boss as met him yet that's right

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now what arava har for drivers license

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does your boss you have to pick me up on the way to work

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I'm on the guy was our press wasn't easy at nor

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just that six months later I was born out what you would politely call a

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pre-existing condition

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after I've been called worse it's okay

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all right now my parents insurance didn't cover me how long will my dad

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next out born woman's hospital batteries were two or three children born

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my dad went to the doctor opera said lock

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insurance doesn't cover art route arts drama send you a check

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every mom and Zach pay this bill

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no paperwork no contracts no government program

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just you guys shaking hands knows a simpler time back then that's what

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people used

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I asked my dad how that work today

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how do you pay for a baby on my way

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I mean if you skip a payment can I take the baby back where they do

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our fathers made it very clear he sits on your such a bad baby

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we would have sent you back that was an option if I don't worry you're paid for

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don't worry now is coming to take

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the reason I tell you this mark Twain said the older we get the smarter

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our parents I'll buy you Obama stop turning in my parents more

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and more every day I say things I swore I would never say

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wanna thank my dad used to tell my brother and me is that

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I'm not leaving a famous last name our inheritance

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make sure you get a great education is in this country there's no limit to what

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you can accomplish

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he also tells us he said every day should thank God

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you are blessed to be born in the greatest country in the history of the

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world the United States

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America

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are you all my children and one day my grandchildren be able to say that same

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prior

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how worry about the assault on freedom the redefinition the American dream

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and we're seeing it right now we're seeing an

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on precedent us all on our religious liberty rights

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in the United States America

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a little over a year ago in February at the Reagan Library I gave a speech

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outline upcoming assault on religious liberty it's no longer upcoming folks

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it is here and it didn't start Indiana and Arkansas

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Aiden Starr in the Hobby Lobby case where the Obama administration 10

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force the green family to use their own money to pay for abortifacients to pay

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for abortions

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have violated their sincerely held religious beliefs and certainly

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Aiden Starr Aiden Starr when the left got so mad at bill Robertson for saying

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things that they disagree with try to get

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duck dynasty hansel on A&E and it certainly didn't start this week when

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hillary clinton's stood up in New York

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said those of us that are pro-life those of us that are pro-life

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need to have our religious beliefs change now listen what she said we need

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to have our religious beliefs

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change i house you propose

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do that she did suggest whether we should go to reeducation camps or

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how she intends to I've got news for

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my religious beliefs are not between me and Hillary Clinton my religious beliefs

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are between me

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and got and we're not

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we're not changing our religious beliefs simply because I upset

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Hillary now we saw something very unusual in indiana we saw

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corporate America team up with the radical left to come after our religious

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liberty rights

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corporate America needs to be careful the same radical left the doesn't want

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to have religious liberty rights does not wanna step economic

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liberty rights rowdy is the same radical left the doesn't want their religious

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liberty rights

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wants to tax and regulate these companies at existence

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I think profit is a dirty war corporate America needs to be careful I know that

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they think they succeeded in bowling those leaders

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in Indiana but I've got news for them: we've got legislation

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in louisiana we've already got a religious freedom act we got legislation

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this session

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to protect people up faith and a concert to hold a traditional view of marriage

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and they might as well save their breath because corporate America

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is not been a bully the governor of Louisiana wanna come

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and then you'd understand there is no freedom of speech or freedom of

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association without religious liberty

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I reject this notion that in america it is impossible have religious liberty

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and also to get ready discrimination the reality is we can do

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ball and the reality is this the real discrimination is being face today

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are Christians individuals families and business owners

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shouldn't have to choose between operating their businesses

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and following their conscience their traditional views their religious

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beliefs

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when hillary clinton's as we have the freedom of religious expression

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that's not religiously all she needs is for a couple of hours a week we can say

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what we want in church

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religious liberty means being able to live our lives 24 hours a day

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seven days a week according to our faith on our conscience appointing arboles

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now this fight is bigger than marriage I believe in traditional

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between a man and a woman and unlike President Obama and Secretary Clinton

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the governor of Louisiana use my views they're not evolving

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with the tops they're not based on phone

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this fight is bigger than even marriage though

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this fight is about that definition liberty and freedom

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in the United States the left thinks we're not smart enough to have second

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Amendment rights

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not smart enough to have school choice not smart enough to drink a big of a new

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york

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or not smarten up to not smart enough to buy our own health insurance now don't

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think we're smart enough to live

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our own law of got a message to you at one time

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the lapd immediately the Hollywood elite used to believe in tolerance

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and they still do that alright everybody except those weapons disagree with them

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it's no coincidence the one group they do want to discriminate against or

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evangelical Christians with traditional

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sewing group I think it's okay to discriminate against I've got a message

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for the left and I'll say it simply and slowly so they'll understand it's not a

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complicated

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you're up to go to harvard law to understand this parasite the present

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three years a lot which money his ass first wash my back much already learned

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there anyway

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I certainly didn't eat the Constitution he was there

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the

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here my message Hollywood immediately the United States of America did not

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create

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religious liberty religious liberty created

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United States America the

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also this following observations I told you about the American dream not on all

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my children your children and grandchildren

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to be able to pray the same prayer that we are blessed to be born and raised and

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the greatest country in the history of the world but I will say this:

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we've had a present for over six years now there's try to devise

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I do believe our best days are ahead but we've got to win this election

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we've gotta be norian I'm one of those says we don't just need

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incremental change in DC we don't just like any Republican we need

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big change in Washington DC to get our country back on the right track

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for my final thought is a smart parent's they loved India but when they left in

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you there are

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harming to america to be americans if they want to be Indian

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understated if they want to raise their children

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as indian-americans or as in the draw anything else I would have come here

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my parents came here raise Americans

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how about you

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Akhtar the hyphenated Americans were not african-americans were not

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indian-american not

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asian-americans we need to stop dividing ourselves we r

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all Americans America the

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used to be common sense to call american a great melting pot used to be common

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sense to say that those wanna come you should want to be americans

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I'm tired of a commander in chief I'm tired for president seeks to

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don't like in criticizing america apologizing for America

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our founding fathers got it right are proud

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no external enemy can be just but we can be beaten for divided

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the purpose of our governments not to create light is to secure

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god-given rights this is our time this is our time our

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forty presence at every generation has to renew for Excel our principles our

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freedom

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previous generations spilt blood and treasure to give us as Americans

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this is art my parents knew what they were doing when they came here over

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forty years ago in search the American dream let's make sure the next

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generation

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gets a chance to live at American dream as well

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god bless you all thank you all

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the

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