Views of social and governmental policy which in many ways is entirely possible that when he served four years from now having this conversation with my grandson, during the 3rd edition we could look back on the late 20th century has a timeless constitutionally questionable. It is certainly much debated a hot topic debate. Ii think it is possible that we will view the issues of today as were it might have gone awry. Yes. Partly i think controversy is a little bit of a copout because every generation has had a big controversy. The difference with the modern era is we are a little more careful about not taking a position on it because we are not sure where it is going. A few questions about specific provisions. I will go through a few. Thethe Second Amendment was essentially based on the founders fears of standing armies. Yes. Next. Well, let me try and give the short version. The Second Amendment is a fascinating amendment. The political purpose was fear of a Central National army. If t
Plus. Im erica woods on south africas western cape coast and fishing and oil spills put the continent species of penguin at the risk of extinction. An Egyptian Court sentenced former president Mohamed Morsi to death, the verdict relates from a mass jail break in 2011 during the revolution that topped mubark and he and others escaped and more than 100 others have also been sentenced to death and tried. The case will now go to the grand egypts highest authority and if he agrees with sentence he can hand the case back to trial judge. The former president facing several other charges include conspiring to spy and commit acts of terrorism in egypt see that peninsula with hamas and hezbollah anicka tar that supported the government and morsi accused of fraud with economic and social programs and insulted for accusing a judge of overseeing election fraud. Morsi denies all those allegations and lets talk more about the death sentence now and we have a fellow in residence of the graduate school
Bride, the church, marriage is a picture of the promise. Ephesians number five 3132 says for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined and the two shall become one flesh. You dont have to dash buchanans choose to embrace, god designed men and women were you can reject all of that and you can make your own alternative truth, but you cannot exchange what god has spoken and verified in nature, many have tried and history documents that folly. In the past, stating such a position was known as practicing religious freedom and freedom of speech. And thousands if not millions whose faith and conscience will not allow them to respect any decision that fundamentally rejects god his word and the natural order. If majority redefines marriage thousands of christians will respectfully refuse to acknowledge such a ruling has any jurisdiction over their lives. In the spirit of Martin Luther king we will do any attempt to enforce such a ruling isnt just. More importantly
Eastern here on cspan. Neck the preview of the tuesdays Supreme Court oral argument on samesex marriage. The court will consider whether the 14th amendment will require the states to license marriages between two people of the samesex and if the license the out of state marriages must be recognized. Paul smith argued lawrence verses technology. And texas sodomy law. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Welcome every. I would like to welcome to you the briefing of the Marriage Equality casing. President of the american constitution society. I want to start by thanking general block for hosting us today. The firm had as come to support and promote lgbt the commit ment commitment and not desk for over ten years. If you and congratulations force being a force of justice in the United States. For those of that you are not familiar with the american constitution society, we are a National Network of lawyers and law students. Judges and policymakers. By shaping the debate and the legal and constit
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