That generated as much heat and animus as this topic did. Please help me welcome a man who stood up to argue and to defend what our nations highest court has now recognized as a constitutional right, professor geoffrey stone. [applause] thank you. Im delighted to be here. My talk this afternoon derives from a book that i am currently finishing titled sex and the constitution. Although the book addresses such issues as obscenity, contraception, homosexuality generally, abortion and so on, i decided to focus specifically this afternoon on the issue of samesex marriage, an issue that cuts to the very heart of the meaning of equal citizenship. In august of 1982, an Atlanta Police officer went to the home of Michael Hardwick to serve an arrest warrant for public drinking. Upon entering the home, he observed hardwick and another man engaged in oral sex. The officer placed both men under arrest for the crime of sodomy. In the case decided in 1986, the Supreme Court held that the homosexual so
Poverty, education, health and safety. That is what you are talking about. Our focus was pretty narrow. We cannot do everything, but we did talk about things such as i will give you an example having 911 triage. By that i mean, if you get a 911 call where it appears the incident is involving an individual who is suffering from mental disability, in some cities, they will shift that call to a group of 911 receivers who are actually with special training to deal with and ask the right questions so that the right resources, to the extent that they exist because they dont and all cities, are been deployed to that situation. A lot of times what you have are people receiving calls who dont have adequate training who then deploy people who dont have adequate training to situations that could be completely avoided in a situation where there was training. One final point on this you take the police like the u. K. Where, yes, there are as many guns arent as many guns, but they have, the police h
caucuses will mark the first formal votes in the 2012 race. right now, it s too close to call, statistically speaking. according to a poll from the american research group, ron paul, mitt romney, and newt gingrich are locked in a three-way statistical tie. you can see it there. 21, 20, 19% apiece. paul steinhauser is in des moines with more on this three-way battle. and no clear front-runner at least for iowa, paul. reporter: no clear front-runner. and that poll you just showed from arg came out on friday. the most receipt polling we have of people likely to take part in that caucus on january 30. it also indicates with just a week to go 1-10 still say they haven t made up their minds. and a sizeable amount are saying, i m backing this candidate or that candidate, but i may change my mind. three-way traffic jam, i guess you could say, for the top spot. ron paul, though, and here is the story, look at this, this is this morning s des moines register. could ron paul win? th
as these holidays wind down. the president yial campaign sean is heating up. one week from tomorrow, the iowa caucuses will mark the first formal votes in the 2012 race. right now, it s too close to call, statistically speaking. according to a poll from the american research group, ron paul, mitt romney, and newt gingrich are locked in a three-way statistical tie. you can see it there. 21, 20, 19% apiece. paul steinhauser is in des moines with more on this three-way battle. and no clear front-runner at least for iowa, paul. reporter: no clear front-runner. and that poll you just showed from arg came out on friday. the most receipt polling we have of people likely to take part in that caucus on january 30. it also indicates with just a week to go 1-10 still say they haven t made up their minds. and a sizeable amount are saying, i m backing this candidate or that candidate, but i may change my mind. three-way traffic jam, i guess you could say, for the top spot. ron paul, tho
announcement. then we get an announcement that the potential candidate will be exploring something and then finally we get the actual announcement which is a video. that s what they dough now like the one from newt gingrich announcing the official start of his campaign almost exactly a month ago. how do presidential campaigns start these days? they start with well lit videos like this. but this week mr. gingrich brought us a second question about presidential campaigning today. we all know how it starts. but how does it look when it ends? how do we know these days when a presidential campaign is done? only two campaigns make it to election day, right? most of them drop out along the way. some because the candidate sees support tapering off or never getting off the ground. the kand diet quietly calls it quits. but some because they end because their presidential campaign imploeds in a rather more spectacular fashion. headline, gingrich presidential campaign implodes. the wash