Whatever happened to abraham lincolns pronouncement in the gettysburg address at hours that the government of the people, by the people and for the people. We make the decisions for ourselves. It is rapidly being replaced now by a government of the courts, by the courts and for the courts. Let me get to the bottom line. If the u. S. Supreme Court Redefines Marriage to an good samesex marriage, we all know you and i all know that this will not be the end of the matter. An avalanche of court cases will be filed unrelated issues that we can even imagine today. We believe or should i say i believe that religious liberty will be insolvent from every side. Indeed, that authority happened. Pastors may have to officiate samesex marriages and they could he prohibited from passages of scripture. Those who refuse to comply will likely be threatened legally and as the years go by, some will be subjected to prison sentences. Christians who operate as mrs. Will be required to dance to the government
Hard to think of any other kind of law where you can discriminate in that type of rational way. It doesnt lend itself to the economic regulation. The proponents of the amendment in the perry case, the natural argument and the things that got the attorney justice appeased, and they made a joke about it. They werent taking this argument particularly seriously. Theres been a lot of focus on the Supreme Court decisions but theres a real history that the court has had in addressing access to marriage that includes permitting people who dont pay Child Support to be able to marry, permitting individuals who are prison to be able to marry while they are in prison. There is this really huge issue that the Supreme Court has viewed marriage over 40 times over a couple hundred years. The court has consistently found that we have to give huge to individuals who are willing to marry. Theyre not interested in picking out who should and should not have access to the institution. The other piece of thi
Welcome to pnp live. Im brad graham the coowner of politics and pros along with my wife Alyssa Muscatine and we have what promises to be a very Engaging Program for you this evening featuring journalist Peter Goodman here to talk about his new book davos, man how the billionaires devoured the world. A couple of brief housekeeping notes first though to post a question at any point during the discussion. Just click on the q a icon at the bottom of the screen and in the chat column, youll find a link for purchasing copies of davos, man. As peter notes in his prologue many people do a lot of ogling at the lives of billionaires. We marvel at their outlandish parties their trophy estates the details of their vastly expensive divorce settlements. We watch fictionalized tv shows based on their excessive lifestyles applaud their philanthropy and occasionally even elect them to public office. Peter makes an impassion and detailed case that these richest people in the world have done great harm t
The tired and the poor and the people who are striving for a a better life. Those are probably my biggest concerns. We are in getting out of them like we always do. We will prosper because we are resilient to. What about the moral ground we but see if we just said, we would for get about 11 Million People, we will not take care of spouses and equal protection under the laws and all of those things. Do you worry abut that . Whats the country is in a miss. The economy is in a horrible miss. This has never happened before. America has always been a land of immigrants, not democrats. If we wait, we lose a couple hundred thousand margaret people losing the economy. Until it heals, the American Public will of the receptive to the unskilled workers. I am talking about, lets get this over and done with it. Lets agree on the dream act. Lets give a green card to the undocumented workers. That is toxic right now. Of not optimistic with and solve the problem. Lets agree on what we agree on a make
Actively now looking both internally and externally for a new ceo. You can see right now that the stock is up 6. 7 . We have had a lot of movers. Tracy thank you, nicole. We have that on this. Rob, you are saying that there is no right time. You just decided it was time to go. A major reorganization. Typically, you are in while it takes time to complete the process. Tracy that is kind of interesting. Second class citizens to facebook now. What is happening here . Well, he actually did a number of things right. He made a number of mistakes as well. That is why you look at their one big major mistake. You do not look at any of their successes. They were very successful. He got them out from underneath. The huge problem they had. He finally fixed the organizational problem. In the end, he got three of them. Seeing as a wonder inside the company. He would be an excellent choice. Outside the company, there are probably three people that could be picked. Fully trained to be a ceo. Has been a