Senator Bill Frist demonstrates his ignorance of core American values:
[T]he Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens.
Spoken by George Washington, namesake of this state. This cuts through the immigration debate as well as the gay marriage amendment: the people who come here to work want to be good citizens, pay their taxes, and live their lives. That phrase — to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance — is golden.