[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 82 (Friday, June 24, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: June 24, 1994]
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                                RELIGION

  (Mr. ROHRABACHER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Mr. Speaker, I am very concerned about some of the 
trends that I have seen politically in this country, and there are a 
lot of people with more middle class and traditional values that share 
those concerns.
  First of all, we see funding for the National Endowment for the Arts 
going to very clearly antireligious works of art. This is at the same 
time when no manger scenes are legally being able to be placed in the 
front of city hall. So we have the Government subsidizing antireligious 
art on one side and, on the other hand the same people making the 
argument, if someone so much as places a manger scene in front of city 
hall, that they are subsidizing religion.
  We saw a bill passed in this session that says: ``If you are prolife, 
you do not have the same rights to protest as someone who is prochoice 
or other people who want to protest other things in our society.''
  We now hear, coming from the other side of the aisle, a vicious 
attack on politically active people who happen to have religious 
convictions. This is an attack on the rights of people who go to 
church, ordinary American citizens, stalwarts of our community, who are 
politically active, simply because they believe in their religion.
  I think the other side better think twice about limiting the rights 
of honest middle-American religious people in our society.

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