That case out of colorado for a religious baker asked to bake a cake for a samesex wedding. That takes place today. We will show you audio of that later this week. Two guests joining us to talk about that details of the case and the importance, carrie severino, the chief policy director. Elizabeth wydra of the Constitutional Accountability Center to both of you, thanks for joining on. Ms. Carrie severino, can you explain the context of the case from the point of the baker . Guest he was a baker in colorado, and he started as an artist. He has a lot of different cakes he thinks he cannot make for religious reasons, with the devil on it for halloween, happy divorce cakes. He had a samesex wedding come in, and he said im happy to make other kinds of cakes, but i cant do that because i do not believe in my expression. Colorado says that violates their antidiscrimination law. Now he has had to drop 40 of his business because he cannot make any wedding cake whatsoever. Host let me get the pe
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How did historians rate your favorite president and who were the winners and losers in the categories you can find all this and more on their website. Hopefully this is the first of many as most of you know, i know many of you know me as a political reporter for theal Arizona Capitol times where he spent the past eight years covering the governors officee delving into the political scene politics especially arizona politics is a passion of mineof but those of you that know me personally know that my greatest passion is history and if youve been to my house you have seen bookshelves of history books and its always been a dream of mine so i was fortunate i got the opportunity last year. Before i start i want to extendi a special thanks to the bookstore for giving me this opportunity to talk with me tonight and a special thanks to cspan recording this for booktv because it has been a dream of mine to be on booktv. [applause] if you know someone who wanted to come but wasnt able to make it
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