Raphael Warnock: “There is no religious test for citizenship in America, and there's no religious test to hold office.”

“They're losing the argument. It's just deeply disheartening, though not terribly surprising that they're trying to stir up these old demons. Listen, I'm a proud American, as is Abdul. There is no religious test for citizenship in America, and there's no religious test to hold office. And as a Christian pastor, I take no comfort in this kind of Islamophobia, in this kind of bigotry, of lifting up the worst example of someone who claims a faith and trying to conflate that as the faith itself.” (01:03–01:11)

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