In fact, if you really want to be quite frank about it, how does somebody else owning a slave affect me? It doesn’t. If I don’t think it is right, I won’t own one, and people always say ‘well if you don’t want to marry somebody of the same sex, you don’t have to, but why tell somebody else they can’t.* Uh, you know if you don’t want to own a slave, don’t. But don’t tell other people they can’t.
In response to a request for clarification on his statements about Lincoln, Lewis' campaign released a statement from Lewis*highlighting*historical citations which Lewis argues validates*his*claims.
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While Lewis called the goal of ending slavery "laudable" in his book,*he also wrote*that the Civil War Amendments have "regrettably grown to include the policy preferences of individual judges that have little to do with the plain language of a particular amendment."
