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“No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.”

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I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

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To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

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