SHARPTON: I think that there seems to be a fear of dialogue.

And I think, rather than talking at each other, if they talked to each other, I think the question is -- I agree with Tony about public policy. But, when we talk about public policy, I think Senator Obama is right. None of us leave our personal convictions or religious feelings at the door. But we also respect the fact that everyone doesn't have to have those same convictions in the public marketplace.

So, I may have some very conservative personal feelings, but I feel you have the right to live your life differently. I might think what you do, Anderson, is going to put you in hell, but I'm going to defend your right to get there. So, I think that that's where I differ with some of my other brothers.

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PERKINS: I'm going to try and keep you from going there.

SHARPTON: Well, I am too, but I'm not...

(LAUGHTER) SHARPTON: But there's a difference in forcing him to heaven, Tony, and in legislating him in heaven, and converting him. I would rather convert him. Let me convert him, Tony.

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COOPER: I appreciate both of your concerns about my -- my afterlife.

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COOPER: I'm personally not all that concerned, but that's another -- a whole other discussion.

Tony, it's interesting, though. In reading Obama's speech, I would have thought it was a speech that a lot of evangelicals would have kind of embraced, because he really is saying, look, there is a role -- you know, secularists are wrong. There is a role for faith in the public square.

PERKINS: Look...

COOPER: And -- and it's a question of -- of how you communicate that faith, and you should use science and reason if you're a politician in order -- you can't just use your religious beliefs.

What is -- what is -- I kind of don't get the criticism.

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