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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Talking Dems - Marianne Williamson Takes Questions from The Daily Show Audience

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

2020 Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson answers audience members’ questions about reproductive rights, virulent racism in the U.S. and hyper partisanship. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:02.4

Yes, ma'am.

0:05.4

What's your question?

0:06.4

We spoke a lot about spirituality and guiding, you know, applying spirituality.

0:11.1

How would you use spirituality to guide the conversation on women's choice of abortion?

0:18.5

I think that's it.

0:20.5

I think both sides, there's a lot of legitimacy and spirituality, but also how would you

0:27.4

put that in the public sphere?

0:29.4

So spirituality is the path of the heart.

0:34.5

That's all that spirituality is.

0:36.2

When it comes to abortion, I do believe that it's a moral issue, but it is to me an issue

0:41.4

of private morality.

0:43.7

And I trust the moral decision-making and the biological choices of the American woman.

0:47.6

I do not believe the U.S. government has any right to be making moral decisions for an

0:51.7

individual.

0:52.7

I think that's all that's left of it.

0:59.7

So, gun control and this conversation of mass shootings, I guess, with the media not

1:07.1

acknowledging, I think, the other factor of white supremacy.

1:11.0

How do you think about maybe bringing up that conversation and how we can tie into officers

1:18.9

that are white to unarmed, black individuals, where you have white shooters that are leaving

1:25.9

maybe obviously not dying and maybe so.

1:30.9

Right.

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