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HockeyMom

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12. NY State Catholic Republican Rep.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun May 24, 2015, 02:59 PM

May 2015

He proposed the legislation for the Morning After Pill and got a lot of backlash from the Church Community. I loved his quote, even though he was a Republican.

I was elected to my office to represent ALL my community whatever their religion. I was not elected to be a Bishop of the Catholic Church for my political office. Not his precise quote, but that was the gist of it.

Elected officials need to remember this. They are not elected to promote/legislate THEIR own particular religion.

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