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Policy to the director of the office of management and budget during the Obama Administration discusses his book which country has the worlds best healthcare . Watch booktv on cspan2 this weekend. Good evening everybody and welcome to. Stretching from union square, from an original 48 stores until after over 93 years the sole survivor. Now ran by third generation. We want to thank all of you for your support, authors, book lovers and friends, without you, we would not be here today. We are excited to have a woman celebrating the release of her new book. Tara is a contributing editor, the columnist and former staff religion reporter at fox. Com. She has written on religion through national geographic, the washington post, the New York Times and more. She holds a doctorate in theology from oxford. Also a novel social creature. Joining tara to discuss her new book is ross. Ross is a columnist for the New York Times oped page. The author to change a church and a privilege. Coauthor of bran
Southport. In western areas, continuing the process through the afternoon, a little more clout streaming in. The further east you are, particularly eastern scotland and south eastern parts of england, that is where we will see the best of the sunshine spells, temperatures 12 to 16 degrees. Cloud. It will turn wet through the Late Afternoon here, and then cloud and outbreaks of rain syncing south and east during the night, a lot of the rain will be light and patchy, some heavy bursts over hills in the west, and a little bit milder than it was last night, around nine to 11 degrees. Start the weekend on a fairly drab note, a lot of cloud around, some rain at times, as we start saturday morning, cloudy and fairly damp across the south west of england, heavy bursts over high ground, similar story for south wales. Rain further east, not particularly heavy, a few spots here and there. Across the midlands, some visually rain. Some brightness for north wales and northern england, cloud and rain
Conservative religious lead tore the National Press club for a discussion about the Upcoming Supreme Court cases and their positions on the cases. This is about an hour and ten minutes. [inaudible conversations] i want to start right on time. Were grateful for the folks at cspan coming in and filming the discussion today so we want to be conscious of their presence. I appreciate the audience of cspan. My name is rick scarborough. Myself, along with several others who are here most especially matt st. Stavor are the originators of the marriage pledge. There are Copies Available for everybody. They were stacked outside. Defend marriage. Org where you can both read the pledge, see the key signers we now have as of yesterday morning over 6,000 who signed the pledge. We have been adding several hundred a day of late and all of that will be discussed in the course of the presentations today. We had two esteemed members of the press coverage who could not be here because of the one case being
Whatever happened to abraham lincolns pronouncement in the gettysburg address at hours that the government of the people, by the people and for the people. We make the decisions for ourselves. It is rapidly being replaced now by a government of the courts, by the courts and for the courts. Let me get to the bottom line. If the u. S. Supreme Court Redefines Marriage to an good samesex marriage, we all know you and i all know that this will not be the end of the matter. An avalanche of court cases will be filed unrelated issues that we can even imagine today. We believe or should i say i believe that religious liberty will be insolvent from every side. Indeed, that authority happened. Pastors may have to officiate samesex marriages and they could he prohibited from passages of scripture. Those who refuse to comply will likely be threatened legally and as the years go by, some will be subjected to prison sentences. Christians who operate as mrs. Will be required to dance to the government