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They feel its part of a broader problem, that they havent been treated with respect, they feel like they are encroaching on the church and so i think that he may have done some permanent damage that is going to be a little bit hard to walk back even if there is agreement on this. jon: judy, a lot of people you read in the coverage there are people who arent even practicing catholics, not even particularly religious who felt that this was sort of a heavy-handed government order, edict. >> i think...

Amendments to the constitution, are we saying you can keep some and trade in others? it reminds me when i was teaching a youngster about the ten amendments and he said do you have to follow all of them at the same time? >>neil: that kid was me in school. you get six or seven out of ten, that technically is passing. >>guest: so, it is the same with the bill of rights, are we going to trade in some so we can keep others? i dont think thats the route to go, i think we have to find a way in which ou...

But i think they have a general philosophy that the government is the one who should be principally providing for social services. im not reading this a lot in the newspapers right now but i think this is where it is going. why? because, for example, boston and washington, dc, catholic social services there were providing lots of adoption services. the government said, you cant receive any federal money, government money, unless you are providing for adoption services to gay families. they had t...

United states. >>neil: my guest says he is wiping out the line between church and state by forcing the issue of contraceptives and the like being allowed and an opening in religious run and catholic run health organizations. how far does this go? >>guest: we should state clearly this is not about contraception but about religious liberty. why? because first of all, most health plans offer contraception. this is the government coming in and saying, those that dont, catholic hospitals, catholic ed...

After fat cats but now you are picking off catholics. why not the religious are raising holy hell. @@

Over the next 30 days we are going to see who has the strength. and romney is the only one who has the organization. the money. and the incredible proven results or conservative leadership that we need in order to beat president obama. i think you look at what his record in the olympics, as governor, in the private sector, and no matter what anyone says this will come down who can control spending --. >>neil: did do you think that will be a dominant issue? i dont know if you heard foster, a succ...

Exemptions? they said you have a year to violate your conscience. you have a year. and, second, they say for those groups they are serving only people of their faith you get an exemption. do you think cat him -- catholic hospitals are going to be make sure they are only serving catholics? that is not going do happen. will they make sure only catholics are working at institutions? that is not being catholic. they toll the catholic church, stop being catholic or shut your doors. this is going to b...

Nonpracticing but by and large he has ticked them both off. >>guest: absolutely. catholics, can you not call them a voting bloc, but you can say the practicing catholics vote in a similar way as practicing christians of other denominations and in this unbelievable choice to go after religious liberty, he is uniting both liberal and more conservative catholics against an administration who is saying, we are going to violate your religious freedom that includes, always, in the history of the up, p...

Later on as it was in those days. >> right, right. >> willie? >> i think maybe thats coming back. >> hey, joe -- >> we should point out that teen pregnancy rates have dipped over the last couple of years. dont get me wrong, its still a scourge that is eating away part of our country. >> trends are reversing. i want to talk about libya and john boehner going there on the front page of "the wall street journal." one more cultural issue we in new york are reading today, i want you and pat buchanan,...

Controversy followed. in 1990, booed off the field. she sang -- maybe screeched is a better word -- the national anthem an grabbed her crotch and spit. that was a padres game. we will talk about that. in 2009 she knowed a cookie baking nazi. she once told joy behar that sarah palin was a slave to right wing men. she talks about the political transformation tonight. she floated the idea that practicing catholics -- i was raised catholic -- should lose custody of the kids. 2012 she ran for preside...