The time of this project coincided with a large Marian trend: in 1661, Pope Alexander VII declared the Immaculate Conception (though it didn't become a dogma of the church until 1854).
"This was the most difficult bill to bring from conception to birth that I can imagine being involved with, " one of the bill's primary co-sponsors, Republican Sen.
This has profound consequences for the conservative psyche, putting it fundamentally at odds with liberty whenever it threatens the conservative conception of America.
