WASHINGTON—Sen. Ben Sasse was so incensed when Democratic presidential candidate and former Rep. Beto O’Rourke proposed ending federal tax exemptions for churches that oppose same-sex marriage, the Nebraska Republican resolved to get every member of Congress on the record on the issue.
Sasse took to the Senate floor in an impassioned speech late Oct. 16 “to ask each and every member of Congress to answer this simple question: Is it right for the United States federal government to get into the business of policing Muslims’, Jews’, and Christians’ religious beliefs about whether or not they are acceptable? Is it the business of the federal government of the United States to determine true and false religion?
