crept into our culture and led to the horrific deaths of tense of millions, including jews, roma, jehovah witness, gays and the disabled is an evil still at work today pervading our communities. the present turmoil reveals a pivotal moment where you call us to bear testimony to our faithfulness to you and to you alone. in the words of elly weizel, we must bear witness. grant us courage and unite us under the values of dignity, respect, justice, and reich necessary, when we reflect on the termination of entire peoples, we will affirm that never again means now. in the strength of your name we pray, amen. the speaker: amen. the chair has examined the last day's proceedings and announces to the house the approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1, the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from alabama, mr. karl. mr. karl: thank you, mr. speaker. would you please address the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for

both jehovah witnesses, both home schooled by their mothers or at least aaron was home schooled until his parents marriage broke up. >> we were drawn together that two people were so driven and optimistic and wanted to do big things in life. >> so after high school they got engaged. full of excitement, planned the wedding. then one night shannon's ig mother, pam, sent the girls off to bible study and told their father, jerry, they needed to talk. >> she looked up and said i don't want to be married to you anymore, i don't want to be here. >> everything was fine, fine, fine? >> everything was fine. she said this is it. >> what did that feel like? >> i was crushed. >> reporter: these two were both products of broken homes. the wedding day approached when shannon's mother, pam, and aaron invited ralph. so some pre-marital guidance perhaps? oh tano. nothing like that. >> they told us we ran off, eloped, we got married. >> wait, what? your mother and aaron's father? >> yes. >> who does that? >> i don't know, but i can't tell you how it felt i was hit by a bus? >> you were marrying your ste

serious, decided to evacuate, we have a place to live, we will go to the cherkasy region, since we are jehovah's witnesses, they give us a place to live, and there we will see if the situation will worsen, we will have to stay there, of course, we want to come back here, winter things have not been taken yet, we are counting on the month. one and a half, and we don't know where, about 40 people are being evacuated from the city of bilopil, social support and psychological support are provided, people will be placed in sums for the night, they will receive everything necessary to meet basic needs, then local authorities and partners of the humanitarian mission will already lead escorting them, leading them on, well, actually... is happening in bilopillas, in fact, we were there today amazed, because two weeks ago, the city lived more or less normally, now there is only one store left for the entire city that works, the post office is closed, there are almost no people on the streets, we wanted to meet and talk with those who decided to stay, but in fact we have not met such people, that is, peopl

in donetsk region or in crimea. what they said, you, satanists, evangelists, they were baptists, jehovah'so many different things that were done to them, they didn't ask anything, they even destroyed the ukrainian church wherever they went, no one asked anything, but we, sorry , we say about the fact that some ukrainian weasel is there, whether in the police, or in some other office, or in a state institution, sitting and saying, well , everything is ambiguous, it's the believers, sorry, the believers do not carry other people's weapons into the state. because the believers belong to the church of christ, if he is talking about the moscow patriarchate, and you know, when you find prayer books with an interpretation on these baskets lying in the fields, then i will tell you that one of the interpretations struck me, the 10 commandments are not kill, but it says, but if you protect the family own beyond its borders, it is not, it is not, it is not a sin, you understand, they even interpret the sacred writing. existed for 2000 years without them and will continue to exist, mr. alexander, we h

robert jackson, where he very eloquentlyod this country no government official can and so when these jehovah'sitness child refusing to salute the flag they had a rit to do thand justice robert jackson famously says,hat is fixed star in our constitutional context is very important for the here in the opinion jackson explicitly draws a contrast with ourtotalitarian enemies. we don't force to give their obvious sense to, you know, a particular idea or particular creed. and he even in then, talks about how the flag salute that issue, which required the chihe flag i have a picture of it in the book had a resemblance to the nazi flag salute so again the contrastwith enemies was very important. and then you were talking civil. so in 1944, the supreme court decides case smith versus. all right, it's thurgood marshal's first big victory, a case that he argues in the supres down the all white democraticri and throughout south. a very in south carolina justice. burns yes. tely. and yet all of the southern states basically had and everybody knew the particular case was texas, but everybody knew that it wa

and so when these jehovah's witness children were refusing to salute the flag,and justice n famouslystar again, the war context is very important for the here in the opinion jackson explicitly totalitarian enemies. we don't their obvious sense to, you know, a particular creed. and he even in theow the flag salute that issue, which required the children to stand like this to the flag i have a picture of it in the b resemblance to the nazi flag salute so again the contrast with enemies was veryout with civil. so in 1944, the premcodecides c. all right, it's victory, a case that he argues in the supreme court. and it strikes down the all white democratic primary in texas. and throughout south. a very in south linaj■r too right where the justice. burns yes. yes yes, yes, absolutely. and yet all of the southern states basically had and everybody knew the ptias texas,y knew that it was going to have implications. all of those other southern states and. and again, it's very a part of the kind of the, context of the case that we were fighting a regime based on racial supremacy. and here the, you

as katharine birbalsingh pointed out, you'll have jehovah's witnesses saying, because they've complainedeth because of the witches and they don't support the occult. you know, actually, you've got to just get over, you know, this is why i think maybe secularism in schools is kind of important. what do you think? oh, this is the kind of story that really bothers me, because it's an example of people thinking they deserve extra rights because they're religious. >> yes. >> yes. >> i mean, firstly, it's fiction as well. this is not like an act. you don't even have to look at an actual thing. you're reading a thought that someone wrote down and made up. then again, religions are kind of based on fiction, so that's a weak point that i've got there. oh blimey, i you're going to wind nick up right now steve. i thought that atheist talking points was about 1960. >> whatever this exactly the same. >> yeah, yeah i think i don't have thoughts from 1960. i wasn't around, but these are the ones that i have now. no, it's the same argument that people had about banning the life of brian. you don't have