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Ken Paxton: “During session, we pushed a pastor protection [bill]... it…”

Featuring: Ken Paxton, Republican | Attorney General of Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 09:51

So I'm very sad, but also excited to have the opportunity to potentially make Texas not number two. I want to be number 50 in that category. So that's number one, … During session, we pushed a pastor protection [bill]... it was designed to protect churches and pastors and people who work at churches from discrimination. … had an opportunity to be part of some amicus brief. And amicus brief is where we file a brief with the court, like the US Supreme Court, which we did recently in a case called Little Sisters of the Poor. (09:51–10:06)

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Asserts that a pastor protection bill was pushed to protect religious workers from discrimination.

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