What you think. Our phone lines are open. Host you can catch up with us on all your favorite social media pages. Host a very good Tuesday Morning to you. That hobby lobby case is the subject of many articles and editorials and Opinion Pieces in todays papers. Go through a few of them for you this morning. Here is the wall street journal. Contraceptive case skews ideological lines. The lead editorial in the dont openn, pandoras box. Discrimination is likely to extend far beyond simple access to contraception. And usa today, hobby lobby case fuels bigotry. We want to start by reading a bit from an opinion piece from over the weekend on this case from pastor rick warren. His piece appeared in the Washington Post. Does our constitution guarantee the freedom of religion or does it merely allow a more limited freedom to worship . The freedom tove place our beliefs and ethics at the center of our Business Practices or must we ignore them when we form a company . Hobbytcome of sebelius v lobby will affect every american because any religion allowed to be practiced only inside a house of worship and not in the daytoday business of life is a worthless faith. The administration argues that because hobby lobby is a Forprofit Corporation the company has no religious rights under the First Amendment. Government says that examining hobby lobby from paying for drugs and devices to which the owners object would amount to an imposition of the greens faith on their employees. In this case, the administration is insisting that those who form an operate a business based on religious beliefs must disobey what they believe is gods standard in order to obey the governments program. If it wins, the first purpose on which the United States was founded with the severely damaged would be severely damaged. We will be talking about the case for most of todays show. Just to get the conversation started, should there be more or less religion in public life today, the conversation already happening on our Facebook Page. In walters writes less. If you want to follow religious police, worship at your church or at home. The government cannot choose one religion over another according to our constitution. Also on our Facebook Page this ning facebook. Com cspan everyone is entitled to their religious beliefs. However, the u. S. Is not a theocracy. Below that, how about cspan and the government stay out of peoples beliefs . You can follow the conversation, cspanwj. Mark is waiting in michigan on our line for independents. Thanks for calling washington journal today. The 20thy comment is ford started Ford Motor Company after a while, when he saw that liquor might be getting in the way of his employees doing their job, he brought up gangster types to enforce morality right in their homes, ok . For the majority of the 20th century, the legend wasnt being screened from the rooftops and things got along very well, aside from world war ii, i mean, you know. Religion wasnt being blared out every window, and the middle class grew to its greatest heights ever. Now that we are in these predicaments and people are wanting to inject religion into all facets of everybodys life, it seems like things have gotten worse. No to the religion in everything. Host our phone lines are open. Also, a poll taking place on our Facebook Page started just a few minutes ago. Already 51 people voting that there should be more religion in public life and 60 people voting less. Craig is waiting in cedar rapids, iowa. Caller good morning. We know that the declaration of independence talks about our inalienable rights from our , and our Founding Fathers were referring to the triune god of the bible. We dont have separation of church and state in the constitution. It was supposed to be a beautiful balance between free exercise and establishment clause, but we have appointment abuses because we treat but we have torn that to pieces because we treat politics as a Football Game you lose, we win. If you look at romans 13, it said that god ordained to the powers that be so god was involved in the powers of government and the job discussion is right there for people who work in the government. But we dont want to include god but we want all of his blessings , and it doesnt work that way, and we wonder why everything is falling apart and we have gridlock, because we dont know how to Work Together seeking common ground. We have got to quit functioning this way. I house divided against itself cannot stand. That is abraham lincolns thin kin. We have got to Work Together as fellow americans and stop all this divisiveness. It has been in th been an abomination. We cannot suck everything out of america and expect it to survive. Work together, be fellow americans, quit destroying this country just because you want to win and you to lose. Host craig in iowa this morning. When a twitter page on our twitter page host we will keep looking on our twitter page and Facebook Page for your comments. Tyrone on our live for democrats. Caller good morning, how are you doing . Host im doing good. Caller we need more religion because look at what is going on in the world with samesex marriage. That is an abomination to the lord. Congressman with the president , calling them sobs. We need to stop this politicking host tyrone, how would you do it . Caller people got to go to god and pray. Forget about the constitution, go to the holy bible. We need to go to that. Youve got too much corruption in politics and you need to get all these lawyers the abominations under god. Get god in your life. I am a deacon and i live by the word of god every day. But on politics and put put down politics and put god first, not the constitution. Host we will be talking about the hobby lobby case for most of todays washington journal. Some information on the folks who are in favor and will be on hand throughout the Supreme Court today. Lawmakers will be able to take a stand outside the u. S. Capitol, recording to the Washington Times. Representatives michele bachmann, diane black and marsha blackburn, virginia foxx, kevin brady, joe pitts, and Steve Scalise will gather at high noon and have a press conference there at the Supreme Court. The opposition will also be on hand. Some 40 organization will host a ,business rally including the gay and lesbian task force, American Civil Liberties union, and naral prochoice supporters will be in attendance. You see people lined up at the Supreme Court. Lets go to tommy waiting in madison come alabama, on outline for independents. Caller good morning. I think we should have more religion in our public life. Im not a religious person myself, but i see politics the way it is today in this country and its just crazy. Ins like there is no faith anything anybody wants to do anymore. Where are we going to vote for and where do we propose this host tommy, how does religion fix that . Think thatl, i just it has helped us so long in the past and if we go back to what is help us in the past we will in from the street and wont repeat it we will learn from history and wont repeat it. Host eric on outline for independents. Caller first, i got us say, holy cow. Im a little horrified at some of the previous callers already. Enthusiastically cite the christian bible as if it is the only book, and the man from North Carolina sounded to me to be an elderly africanamerican man said to forget the constitution. Holy cow, does he know how different his life would be without it . First, we need to define public, and when we talk about incidences like the sebelius case and the stuff we have been seeing in arizona of late, we need to define public. If you are a business and operating and open to the public , with a business license, Health Department inspections, things like that, a funeral home, take your pick, you need to not discriminate in the same way that you cannot discriminate in housing. If youre making a Public Offering in a capitalist market, you need to not discriminate in that way. If that is what you wanted to, salesyour church and big and yard sales and swap meets and things like that and shop for wheres their shop for your wares there. You dont get to cherry pick. I would love to be able to turn away christians. The problem with rampant evangelical christianity in this country is why i am actually emigrating out of the United States. Many,unately, we have many problems, but they seem to offers of the date from this christian moralizing. Host eric calling in from new york. 2 Opinion Pieces. First, we showed you the headline from usa today. Couple son, as this this couple bishops from New Hampshire episcopal bishop from New Hampshire. They object to certain forms of Birth Control, claiming they constitute abortion. The claimn to say, that corporations through their owners have freedom of religion, a very slippery slope. Should employees be held hostage by the police of its owners . To,other piece to point you the Editorial Board of Washington Times today talking about the undermining of faith and the Affordable Care act. The goal of the administrations grand scheme with the Affordable Care act was never primarily about raising money with taxes. The healthcare law aims at the more profound objective of forcing americans to act like democrats. The high court will hear arguments tuesday about whether this is appropriate. Esther obama reaches into the pockets of others to pay for mr. Obama reaches into the pockets of others to pay for free benefits. The ability gives this president and unprecedented power to reshape society in his image. Mr. Obama not only makes decisions about health care, he decides matters of faith, too. It is up to the Supreme Court to say that the administration has gone too far. We hope that chief Justice Roberts will rediscover the bold print in the constitution and resist the urge to be nice to rescue obamacare a second time. Richie in mount vernon, new york, on outline for republicans on our line for republicans. Richie. Caller yes. The problem people have with man, it says in the bible, that we will have life ever more abundantly and dont have to ask nobody. The only debt we owe on another is to love one another. Things, life 2 would be a hell of a lot better, much better. In new york, sorry, didnt mean to cut you off. Thought you were done. I want to show you some comments who the members of congress have posted statements on twitter and online. Heres speaker John Boehners statement yesterday on the Supreme Court and religious freedom. In the United States of america host speaker john weiner in his statement yesterday. Speaker john boehner in his statement yesterday. A few treats for members of congress. Tweets from members of congress. Host randy in michigan on our line for democrats. Caller good morning, and i want to thank you and all the fine folks behind the scenes we dont get to see for putting on this great show. Host appreciate it, randy. Go ahead. Caller personally i believe there should be less religion in the public. I have no problem with people practicing religion. I have grown up around it all my life. I dont believe in organized religion. I sat in on different ones and i cant even see where they can agree on one got because we have so many different religions. Andve gone into a lutheran seen the treatment and ive gone into christian and told them i was muslim and seen how i was treated. Yes, all religions and they cant even agree on one god. Ask them what height they believe he is. You would have from six foot to 62. Thats fine, but keep it in your churches. I would be the first one a fight so that you can practice your religion. Im also the first one to fight so that you keep it out of our public life. I dont believe what you believe. I sure dont want to go to a god that is antieverything you hear on here by some of these religious people. They dont believe you should do this, you shouldnt do that. What gives you the right to say what somebody should into the shouldnt do what gives you the right to say what someone shouldnt do . You cant even prove. You dont have any facts in that book, uf believes. Host one oth you have beliefs. Host one other tweet, sandra flukes. Host we will be talking about that throughout the morning on washington journal. Want to show you some other headlines from around the country. Here is the New York Times. Obama will seek limits for an essay on call records an essay on call records nsa on call records. Congress, itby would end the aspect that has most alarmed privacy advocates since its existence was leaked last year, according to Senior Administration officials. Nsaer the proposal, the would end its systematic collection of data about americans calling habits. The book records would stay in the hands of phone companies, which would not be required to retain the data for any longer than they normally would. The nsa could obtai specific records only with permission from a judge, usually using a new kind of court order. Ther the Plan Administration developed and now advocates, the officials said, it would undergo major changes. If you want to read more on that, it is in the New York Times and several of the papers today. On Edward Snowden, on the front page of usa today, a comment from former president carter, who defended the disclosures from Edward Snowden in an interview with usa today on monday. Thatys the evidence intelligence agencies were collecting metadata on phone calls and emails have probably and constructive in the long run. i think its an intrusion on one of the basic human rights of americans, to have some degree of privacy for you dont want other people to read what we communicate. does he view snowden as a hero or traitor . theres no doubt that he broke the law and that he would be susceptible to prosecution if he came back here, but it is important for americans to know the kinds of things that have been revealed by him and others, and that is that since 9 11 we have gone too far in intrusion on the privacy of americans privacy that americans ought to enjoy as a right of citizenship. comments from former president carter in an interview with usa today. Just asking you to get the discussion going this morning. Do you think there should be more or less religion in public life . We also have a poll on our Facebook Page, and on our twitter page, cspanwj. Our linemissouri on for republicans. Caller good morning, i am a conservative republican and also a christian. It seems like the only true groups it is all right to discriminate against these days is christians. We are to be silent and not express our views on anything and not have views on anything and not even supposed to participate in government unless we forsake our religion. You have all these groups like the aclu trying to silence us and strip any public display of our religious beliefs all over the country. If you were to do the same thing that, itl black people is all right to have equal rights for everybody else but you have just got to be quiet and keep it in your own little group, there would be an outrage. That is just one example. The problem is that all the left believes in that Big Government andhere their god, abortion, the right to exterminate Young Children or any lame excuse you can come up. Ith, is their holy grail they have no respect for the rights of others, yet they are constantly harping about their own rights. It basically needs to be stopped a we will have nothing but socialist or communist country, which im afraid most of them want anyway. Shot outside the Supreme Court, where people are ,ining up for that case protesters on both sides at the Supreme Court. We will be showing you live shot all morning as we discussed this subject, the hobby lobby case being argued on capitol hill. On our twitter page host we have asked our viewers, should there be more or less religion in public life . We are getting your thoughts and tweets on the hobby lobby case from members of congress. Senator dan coats host we are going to be getting into the details of the case with Supreme Court correspondent for reuters, Lawrence Hurley did he will be joining us in about 20 minutes here on Washington News out ofeaking norfolk, virginia, the naval base there, according to the ap wire service. A sailor was shot and killed at the naval station in norfolk in virginia. Late last night Security Forces killed a male civilian suspect. Says the shooting happened around 11 20 p. M. Monday aboard the uss mahan. Davis would not describe the circumstances of the shooting but said the scene is secure. Ron in eagle river, wisconsin, on our line for democrats. Caller yes, good morning on this chilly day again. I dont think we should extend religion and he extend religion any more than the church on sundays or if you are in a private school. Religionn why which would you want to see more of in o