The director of the john w hosted the experience of inflated african muslims in the 19th century, and Supreme Court decisions on religious issues after world war ii. The library of congress hosted this event. Study anotherg to that hasublic debate roiled the republic since its earliest days, how religion touches our daily life in washington and around the country. It wasnt that much noted in the media this morning as they were rushing to cover Todays Health Care vote, but its also a day in which President Trump is asking for or issuing an executive order that will relax the socalled johnson amendment, which was a law passed by Lyndon Johnson in 1964 prohibiting religious organizations from overt political activity for fear of tax consequences. That is also changing today. Day night was the National Today is the national day of prayer at the white house. Last night President Trump met with his evangelical advisory board. That is a group of people who only a year ago were not very happy
You look at the old and the new testament there is a consistent and clear teaching the we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion, to defend our rights within that government which of course in the United States means our rights under the constitution and the bill of rights, freedom of speech, to assembly, freedom of religion, all those things that are our birthright and then secondly as a witness of our faith. In the context of the decision by the overwhelming majority of evangelical christians and prolife and profamily and faithful roman catholics to back trump in 2016 and today my argument in the book is if you look at where he stands on the issues that they would define as moral issues central to their faith, issues like the right to life, the right to religious freedom, defense of the state of israel, moving the court in the direction of respect for the constitution and the bill of rights is not legislating from the bench, treating the courts as a legisla
We happen to be a part of. If you look at the old and the new testament there is a consistent and clear teaching that we are to exercise that citizenship in a robust and muscular fashion. To defend our rights within the government which of course in the United States means our rights under the constitution and the bill of rights. Two freedom of speech and assembly. All of those things that are birth rate and then secondly as a witness of our faith. In the context of the decision by the overwhelmingly majority of evangelical christians and prolife and profamily catholics to back trump those in 2016 and today my argument is that if you look at where he stands on the issues they would define as moral issues. Issues like the right to life. Moving the courts in the direction. Treating it as a legislature. Those are all issues that in my view and in the view of tens of millions of these voters are defining moral issues. That are central to their core as people of faith. Donald trump pledged
Decline. And the characteristics that contributed to those declines were Massive National debt, United States has 23 trillion and growing. Just the interest on it alone is greater then the Gross Domesticproduct of some nations. I like President Trumps state of the union speech the other night except for one thing. He didnt talk about cutting a single Government Program or even the rate of increase in spending. This is the only nonpartisan thing that happens in this town is spending area you can always get agreement on more. The second contribution to the decline of great nations and superpowers is uncontrolled immigration without assimilation. We want people to come to america but we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion and then to the assimilated like the immigrants of the past and become fully american, not hyphenated americans as we have to often today and then theres the loss of a moral sense contributing to the decline of great nations. In America Today as cole port
Democracy and in our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life, and conversation like tonight, that bring American History into focus. We are very proud to partner with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are proud to gather and esteemed panel tonight. Fred thys covers politics at wbur, where he has been since 1998. Breaking news and serving as a trusted source of truth and information. He previously was the nbc news bureau chief in mexico city, and a south america reporter for cbs news, based in argentina. Joining fred on the panel are four distinguished scholars who provide perspectives on and knowledge of our nations founders. They will paint an informative picture of how the founders operated, and what current lawmakers and each one of us can learn from them. Tonights historians include liz covart from the ins