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When you are talking about moral issues you are talking about same-sex marriage, which has been relegated over to the states. It's no longer a federal issue and yet, we are dealing with it like it's a federal issue but for a large degree it has become a state issue.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Thomas Dexter Jakes
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