[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5629]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


[[Page 5629]]

                        IN SUPPORT OF DR. LAURA

  (Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, I have a button which I 
sometimes wear. It says, ``Politically Incorrect and Proud of it.'' I 
probably ought to be wearing that button tonight, because what I am 
going to say is going to be deemed politically incorrect by some.
  You see, I rise in strong support of Dr. Laura. Mr. Speaker, under 
the guise of freedom of speech, my children and my grandchildren are 
put into a sea of filth and violence on television and the Net. Yet, 
when Dr. Laura recapitulates spiritual and moral values espoused by 
countless civilizations through millenia of time, pagans and Christians 
and Jews and Muslims, she is accused of hate speech.
  Mr. Speaker, I proudly rise to defend Dr. Laura and her right to 
freely express her religious convictions, her deeply held religious 
convictions, without fear of being called a bigot. If her rights are 
denied, all our rights are at risk.

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