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| Transcript: Voices - God or Country? |
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Al Brand: I'm an American and a Christian and I, I guess I'd lay down my life for either one.
Narrator: This week we're at the Bethesda Christian Church in Fort Worth Texas where we asked the question: which comes first in your life — religion or country?
Serena Claver: I consider myself a Christian first.
Ray Hervey: Well, I consider myself a Christian first and then an American second.
Caleb Colson: Christian first.
Linda Hervey: I consider myself a Christian first.
Mary Butcher: I'm a Christian first.
Joshua Colson: I'm a Christian first and--and then an American second.
Narrator: We then asked: What if Muslims gave the very same answer?
Serena Claver: They have the right to say they're a Muslim first, an American second just as much as I have to say I'm a Christian first and an American second. That is the beauty of being an American, is that we have those freedoms and, and the right to practice whatever faith we want.
Joshua Colson: The thing that would anger me about that is the Koran specifically targets Christians and Jews for hate crimes.
Linda Hervey: I might be a little apprehensive at first, but I would consider the fact that--they've chosen their religion first and then their citizenship second, the same as I have.
Caleb Colson: For the sake of the country, I would worry.
Al Brand: It doesn't really bother me.
Edna Calderone: It's the same choice that I have made and expressed. I would not be worried or concerned that they're a Muslim first and an American second.
Mark Barry: But if their faith teaches or they interpret their faith to teach that that means jihad,
I think--that, that does present a problem.
Ray Hervey: They probably wouldn't hold it against me, since my religion is first, and then my faith's--I mean, American second. So I don't hold that against them.
Michael Weber: And so, a Muslim saying that I am a Muslim, then I'm an American, I would put my arms around that person and say I'm glad you're an American, let's talk, tell me about being a Muslim--because I want to know.
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