Buy . And that is not necessarily really how we want an economy or Innovation Sector to function. Announcer watch the communicators monday night at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. And our question we started with this morning, should religious gatherings be exempt from stay at home orders . Our lines for you 2027488000 for the eastern and central time zones, 2027488001, mountain and pacific and if youre a religion leader, that line is 2027488002. Well be right back. Announcer tonightannouncer at 9 00 eastern on afterwards, netflix director of inclusion and former u. N. Official Michelle King with her book the fix. We are often in denial the challenges women face at work. It is something i discovered in my own research. People assume places of meritocracys. There is this belief that everyone is the same because everyone is treated in the same way. If people dont have experiences of work and without logic, we are not only do lot denying difference but we are denying inequality. 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The question, should religious organizations be exempt from the stay at home orders issued now in all of the states across the country with wyoming being the last, this is the headline at the washingtontimes. Com, william barr, the attorney general, very concerned about coronavirus religious freedom restrictions and in their article they write the attorney general said that the Justice Department will scrutinize emergency efforts to restrict religious liberty after the threat from the deadly coronavirus. Quote, were going to keep an eye on all these actions that restrict peoples liberty he said in an interview with fox news laura ingram. Nd from twitter, Public Health is not tyranny but common sense and promotes the common good. Michelle in leavenworth, washington. Michelle, youre first up. Go ahead. Have i believe that we a responsibility to be promoting faith, not fear. Theres a pandemic of fear going on. And today theyre stripping away what makes us who we are. Easter is about going to church for me. Im not going to church and were not going to brunch. D it seems really strange to essential businesses like the jet pro car wash is open, different things, the marijuana shop. I dont under how that can be open and yet we cant go worship. Host our capital hill producer greg kaplan tweeting an image of the democratic leader in the senate, chuck schumer. And schumer on saturday night sader to benefit the centers or Disease ControlEmergency Response fund. Bill, good morning. Caller i believe you should stay away from the churches for a little while and perhaps give the government a chance to investigate the unemployment checks that arent going out. Its a big scandal down here in florida. Thanks to rick scott. Host bill, why arent they going out, whats the story there . Caller rick scott on the unemployment system in the state of florida while he was governor and desantis knew all about it and Stephanie Murphy has introduced some legislation to investigate that. Im not feeling too well. Yeah. Thats a big story. Lyon, iris in south michigan. Hi there. Caller good morning and happy easter to everybody and happy passover to my 2 . Yes, i believe that people should be able to go to their place of worship. Its the only place we have connection. Were being told not to talk to anybody, to shelter in place, going out is getting idiculous. I do believe if you can stand in crowds in florida to get some paperwork or get your money and certain places are getting money and they are not tanding six feet apart and these theres congregation in places, you should be able to go to your place of worship which is the only connection you have with any sanity in these crazy times. So if not, why not. If were going to get sick, were going to get sick. Tell us at least what it is we have. It could be tuberculosis for all you know. They put so many code names on everything, you dont know what you got. And theyre experimenting with it. Why is there a number 19 . Why do they call it coronavirus. And then theres code v19. Whats the other 20, 50, how many hundreds, you dont give names to everything . Were losing connection. Is that what you want, a world of silence on the internet . You cant even go to a funeral. Host thats iris in michigan. Detroit metro times, the headline about their governor, Governor Whitmer criticized for exempting churches from a stay at home order. To matt in wesley chapel, florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. Host make sure you mute your sound and go ahead with your comment. Caller i dont believe people should be going out to church. I mean, were trying to save lives here. Why take the risk . And the other thing is everybody is quick to blame trump. Every president of every country is behind on this virus. It is what it is. It happened, now we just have to all Work Together and get through it. Wish everybody all the best. Host a followup to a caller we had in your previous segment. Gary from broken bow, arizona, who is having trouble getting food from the meals on wheels program, gary, if youre listening, we found a program in broken bow, the eastern oklahoma, the Community Food bank of eastern oklahoma. Nd their phone line is 9185852800. Again, this is the Community Food bank of eastern oklahoma. So call them, 9185852800 and hope that helps out. Well go to matthew next in round pond, maine. Good morning, matthew. Caller good morning. We have a lighthouse at the end of the peninsula and there was just a large group of people for the sun rise service, depending on which way the wind blows, the virus could be spreading. And id like to pound out matthew 6 6, when you pray go into the room and close the door and pray to your father who is unseen and your father who sees what it done in secret will reward you. These people are selfish and just killing people. Its unnecessary. You can pray and celebrate easter with your bible, with your cross at your house. You have a channel for the catholic channel and protestant channel on spectrum cable. You dont need to put peoples lives at risk on your own life and thank you very much for cspan, god bless you. Host to barry next in cross hill, south carolina. Hi there. Caller how are you doing . Host fine, thank you. Caller in 2008 i died and when i went to the other side they told me if you want to pray to god, you just get down on your knees if youre in the yard or in your car or if youre in your lounge chair at home. You start talking, hes going to listen. These people are going to these churches, like this guy said, its selfish and unbelievable to me somebody would risk their grandma and grandpa and brothers and sisters lives when they can do the same thing at home. Thank you very much. Host barry, a tweet here from elizabeth on the Postal Service and she writes not much will compare to the total mayhem republicans could cause letting the usps Postal Service die and they never understood what all they did because its a nonprofit or theyre not interested, millions of house bound americans get their prescriptions, usps even mails cremated ashes. And on that, an update on the funding for the Postal Service from the Washington Post this morning, white house pans bailout for beleaguered post office, through rain, sleet, hail and even a pandemic, mail carriers serve every address in the United States but the Coronavirus Crisis is shaking the foundation of the u. S. Postal service in new and dire ways and write the Postal Service decades long financial troubles have worsened dramatically as the volume of the kind of mail that pays the agencys bills, first class and marketing mail has withered during the pandemic and needs an infusion of money and President Trump blocked emergency funding for the agency that employs around 600,000 workers and repeating instead the false claim higher rates for internet shipping companies, amazon a fedex and ups would right the services budget. Read the entire argument at washingtonpost. Com. Well hear from annette next in madison, georgia. Good morning. Caller yes, as an ordained minister, i believe that yes, religious people as well as people in the United States, we have rights. However, our rights are not absolute. Mainly, for instance, if we were going to physically harm someone, we do not have the right to do that except in the case of selfdefense. So therefore, if we appear in public and we know were putting someone elses lives at risk, we do not have those rights. Those rights are removed and thats the christian thing to do. Host ok. To michael, lehigh, oklahoma. Good morning, michael. Go ahead. Caller i dont think anybody ought to be exempt for nothing. I think they should take consideration of everybody around them and stay home and get rid of this thing. Its nobodys fault. It just happened. Host our question for you this morning, should religious organizations be exempt from the stay at home orders . Weve got a couple more calls and well hear from bob next in marshall, virginia. Go ahead. Caller yeah, these people like the woman a couple three callers ago who called up and was literally lecturing us. Id like to point out three things to her and i hope people listen to what im about to say because this is very, very accurate in terms of historically what happened in past pandemics. In the pandemic of the early part of the 1900s there was pushback like this and the result was tense of millions of people dying. During the plague of the late 1340s to the early 1350s, the religious leaders were in charge and they called for the people to congregate and the result was the planet losing a good percentage of its population. Wake up, my god. Host to austin, arkansas, we hear from diane next. Good morning. Caller hello, thank for you taking my call. Host sure. Caller here in arkansas, the churches are still gathering, theyre gathering in cars in the parking lot and not getting out of their cars. And i dont think that we should have the right to make people not congregate. We can do it in a respectable way thats respecting the health of everybody else. We can stay in our cars. We can let one person in at a time and have them sit 10 or 15 feet away. But thats the constitutional right, if the government him starts running over the hurches, where will they stop . Thats just my comment. Host appreciate you calling in. Well go to frank next up in morrison, tennessee. Welcome. Caller yes. I wanted to comment about the lady that was on before pertaining to the food. Im full time farmer. Ive been for over 50 years. Theres not anything that we are growing out here or raising. We grow dairy cattle, beef cattle, wheat, soy beans, different produce. Theres not anything out here that we are producing today thats making any money. So i dont understand why they cant pay up for food here. And another thing is we have a tremendous problem with labor. And you know, people say they cant afford to buy food. We can put people to work. We cannot find people to show up for work. Host not only has it gotten harder in the last month during the pandemic to find those folks . Caller no, weve had that problem for the last before no, sir. Ame in here, these people are just not going to do this kind of work. And we pay good money, too. They can make good money on what we do up here. Host how big is your farm . Caller 5,000 acres. We cant find people to show up for work here. And there is as an abundance of food up here. The second thing and ill be quiet, the commodities markets are falling dramatically. Theyre falling dramatically. There aint a shortage of food out here, why in