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She got to the hospital, which is about 3:00, 3:30 florida time, social worker garnett frederick told me, quote, youre in a anti-gay city and state and you wont get to see your partner or know her condition. i said, but wait a minute, i have a power of attorney. he came back and gave me his fax number. within 20 minutes of me telling him that they had our legal documents. i continued to wait. >> you had the legal documents needed. you had advance directive, power of attorney? >> i did. yes. >> a...

About 3:00, 3:30 florida time, a social worker came out and said you are in an antigay city and state and wont get to see your partner or know of her condition. i said wait, i have a power of attorney. he came back and gave me his fax number. within 20 minutes, they had our legal documents. >> you had the legal documents needed. you had advanced directives and power of attorney? >> i did. yes. because i have -- yeah, because i have multiple slow row scler row sis. it didnt matter to this hospita...

Yes. >> and yet they still wouldnt let you see her? >> yeah, because i have multiple sclerosis so we were planning for anything like this. and it didnt matter to this hospital. >> they finally did let you see her briefly but only when they were reading her her last rights, is that right? >> yeah. a chaplain came to me. i said i need a priest immediately. and i didnt want the children to see her for the first time that way because i didnt know what i would see. and so just i went back to do the l...

Time a social worker garnet frederick came out and told me, quote, youre an anti-gay city and state and will not get to see your partner in any condition and turned and walked away and i said wait a minute. i have power of attorney and he gave me his fax number and within 20 minutes of him telling me that they had our legal documents. >> you had the legal documents needed. you had advanced directives and a power of attorney? >> i did. yes. and yet they still didnt let you see her. >> i have mult...

When she got to the hospital, about 3:00, 3:30 florida time, a social worker came out and said you are in an antigay city and state and wont get to see your partner. i said wait, i have a power of attorney. he came back and gave me his fax number. within 20 minutes, they had our legal documents. >> you had the legal documents needed. you had advanced directives and power of attorney? >> i did. yes. because i have -- yeah, because i have multiple scler row sis. it didnt matter to this hospital. >...

You should not ask constituents to pray. >> reporter: the justice department is reviewing the ruling. no official word on whether the government will appeal. according to a tweet by the white house on thursday, "as he did last year, president obama intends to recognize a national day of prayer." this year is set for may 6. conservatives are already pushing to overturn the case in the seventh circuit court of appeals. >> if a national day of prayer is unconstitutional, then its unconstitutional t...

We were planning for anything like this. it didnt matter to this hospital. >> they finally did let you see her briefly, when they were reading her her last rights. is that right? >> yeah. a chaplain came to me and i said i need a priest immediately. i didnt want the children to see her that way for the first time. i went back to see the last rights. she must have had some kind of consciousness. she was restrained to the bed. not verbal or conscious. after the five minute ceremony brought me back...

Act, a pastor and chaplain and broke your family apart, and broke your heart. and then you see it with him. two men in your life, your father and john edwards you put the most faith in and hurt and disappoint you. >> and had moral failures and it did for a long time and i can tell you the past easter when we went to church, it really-- my father passed while i was writing this, right at the tail end and the book ends with that, and it talked about the powerful lessons that i learned about being-...

Textbook. today we have been taught the knot-head stuff from the professors and this is what we think truth is. here is truth. >> glenn: number five. >> steven hawkins. you can tell that hes a quaker, devout orthodox quaker, cool guy. outspoken in faith. wrote several religious treatis to show why we were separating from great britain and using scriptures to make the point. >> glenn: number six. this guy. >> he is a fun guy, robert treat payne, attorney general of massachusetts but a military ch...

>> glenn: i want to spend some time here, because where everybody takes this apart and they say oh, theyre diests. three of them. george washington, there is benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson. >> right. >> glenn: okay. so help me out on this. these are the most -- this is what everybody is saying. theyre not religious at all. >> start with washington. washington is a really simple one to start with. when he died, the chaplain of congress did the first biography of him and collection of wash...