At a press briefing on Thursday, Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) spoke about his faith following the arson at the governor's mansion.
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00:00I'll just say a message to people of all faith communities. Do not be deterred in
00:09practicing your faith. Do not be deterred in being proud of who you are. I'm proud
00:15of who I am. Lori's proud of who she is. We're raising our children to be proud
00:19of who they are and here in the birthplace of religious freedom, a place
00:24that William Penn founded to be a place that would be warm and welcoming for
00:29people of all different faiths. I want you to know that you're safe here in the
00:33Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and we're going to celebrate your faith. I was
00:39asked, Annie, I don't know if it was you or someone else, had asked about our
00:44reflection on, maybe it's Tom, I apologize, our reflection on some of the
00:49items in the room. At one point today when we stopped to see the chandelier
00:58that had come down from the ceiling and was kind of partly melted and partly
01:03covered, you know, in soot and what have you from the fire, it was it was resting
01:09on a place on the floor where just the night before we had celebrated our
01:16Passover Seder. Two or three weeks earlier we had celebrated an iftar dinner at the
01:25conclusion of Ramadan and about a year before that where kids danced and played
01:30at our son Ruben's bar mitzvah and right where the Christmas tree stands every
01:36December in the governor's residence. We really believe that Pennsylvania and and
01:42this residence should be a place where people of all faiths are welcome and all
01:46faiths are comforted and feel as though they can celebrate openly and proudly who
01:54they are and we're going to get that room back to being a place that's warm and
02:00welcoming for all.