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"starting point" begins right now. ♪ >> there they are, that's carey allen lee and the new creative collective is the new band playing this morning. they'll provide the playlist coming to you live from the ruby slipper cafe in the heart of downtown new orleans. i guess i should mention first the food it's in front of us. lots on the menu, some of the specialties though, you can take a look include this -- this is the main thing, a barbecued shrimp. >> just shrimp and grits. >> she says this is the dish that's their specialty, i'm told. and this is bananas foster french toast and ov...

>> being a practicing catholic, joe, not everything in the bible obviously is right. i mean there is some wicked stuff in there that doesn't hold true today. >> la, la, la, la, la. >> you pray weirdly. >> isn't religious bigotry different because it is based on something that is -- that you grew up with, and it is not -- it has to do with a higher being. so it is hard -- i mean it almost takes -- i hate to use the word evolution because obama uses it like that, but to move away from those things takes time. >> the constitution will protect religions with making certain bigoted rules. in the ca...

Different things. >> well, maybe for you it may say that but not for me it doesn't and for lots of people who read the bible who follow god and believe in christ and in many instances, that is not the case for them, and the whole point is that we are supposed to love the lord our god with all of the mind and the soul and the strength, and the neighbors as we love ourselves. >> and let me go back to the political conversation. >> people who do believe in christ and god are the president and the first lady. >> and the vice president. >> and let's go back to what the president said, and you are a...

Person to risk an election over the death penalty. >> you're talking national democrats. because up in connecticut, they actually just banned the death penalty. >> sure. but if you have any national aspirations, you will never, ever take a stand against the death penalty either on policy or morality ever. and that is purely political. >> you're a massachusetts guy. joe klein, you could can back and look at ted kennedy quotes on abortion in 1971, 1972. a year before roe. he sounds like a pretty good practicing catholic. >> he does. >> this has been going on for some time. >> these are vexing is...

Interview about polygamy and mitt romney. and mitt romney, george romney being born, i think the quote is, on a polygamy commune in mexico. and he used this word polygamy several times during this interview. of course, polygamy referring to governor romney's mormon faith. which is a sticking point for the governor's campaign but also, for people who may hold that against governor romney in terms of whether they're going to vote for him. >> and it's the first really blatant case of someone in elected office, a democrat, bringing up the mormon issue and polygamy, of course, is no longer part of ...