Differences between the two countries. Yesterday, presence of candidates campaigned in New Hampshire and iowa. For a question today in the first 45 minutes take a look at 2016, we want to take a look at social issues, especially in 2016, and if you think they will be a factor, invite of the Supreme Court decision on gay marriage. Here is how you can let us know your thoughts on social issues. Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. For independents 202 7458002 202 7458002,. You can post on our twitter page , cspanwj. You can also post on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. Or send us an email, journal cspan. Org. On the front page of the New York Times it takes a look at technology and campaigning specifically selfies. Yesterday, a popular day to be campaigning, especially as 2016 comes about. The folks at gallup did a recent poll, looking at americans and their attitudes towards various types of social issues. You can find on their website. It shows a little bit how things have changed, especially since their last poll in 2001. In 2001, 40 of respondents were ok with gay lesbian relations that grew to 63 in 2015. Having a baby outside of marriage, that was 45 2001, and 61 in 2015. To the topic of medical research, using stem cells, 52 of respondents agreed in 2001, that grew to 64 in 2015. To the topic of abortion, that was 42 percent into thousand one, and that grew to 45 in 2013. In the first 45 mins, in light of the Supreme Court decision on gay, your thoughts on social issues, and if they will be a factor. Here is how you can let us know, 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. For independents, 202 7458002. You can post on her twitter page cspanwj, and also on facebook facebook. Com cspan. We will start off in bloomington, indiana, that is where daniel is on the republican line. Good morning. Caller good morning. The social issues that we have come across recently are going to make or break the candidates coming into 2016. I have been focused personally on the conscience of our faith. It will play a big role in our lives as we develop as individuals and people of faith. As i look at how governments role has played in the conscience of our faith, particularly recently with things such as marriage, im interested as to the role that candidates will play with the first amendment. Host which of the candidates currently match your thinking on social issues . Caller currently, i cannot test any of them reaching that standard to my thinking on social issues. We are going to be the candidate who is willing to test the waters. Unfortunately, some of those names have not applied to be president of the United States. Host such as who . Caller i do not want to speak to him in regards to his job but the senator in utah. I have followed him. He is young and his career, it is senator mike lee. Host lets hear next up from mike in baltimore, maryland, independent line. Good morning. Caller how are you . Host five, thank you. Caller i do not want to know anything about social issues when it comes to politics. Politics is managing people and money. I dont want to know about someones husband, why wife, who is gay, who is not gay. I will give you an example. Does anyone know who eisenhowers wife or kids were . Or Henry Kissinger . Nobody. No one cares. They were not in politics for this r reason. I think social issues should be taken out of the focus. Focus on the persons ability to manage. It is just a joke from congress to the president. Host apologies. Mike from florida. Caller good morning to you. Host you are on, go ahead. Caller ok. Im against gay marriage. The Founding Fathers provided a way for us to get around oppression. We can have a Constitutional Convention in every state and make marriage between a man and a woman. That is what we need to do. I am 66. I did not protest the vietnam war, by many for this. We need a march on washington. We need to show our strength. This is not the peoples will. This is the will of some radical i dont know what they are. Host i dont know if you saw the gallup full about people changing their opinions on social things. Do you think the majority of americans with think along with you, enough to change the constitution on these issues . Caller i think so. Almost all the states passed it marriage between a man and a woman. They were overturn by the courts. Like scalia said, this is worse than 1776, they went to war over a t tax. This is shoving a cultural change down our throats that is against history. Even the pagan romans did not recognize homosexual marriage. The ancient greeks did not recognize homosexual marriage. Sure, there was plenty of homosexuals, but was not a legal marriage. This is ridiculous. Host democrats, 202 7488000. Republicans, 202 7488001. Independents, 202 7458002. The caller brought up the Founding Fathers. This morning, Newt Gingrich has a piece looking at the five myths of the Founding Fathers. The fifth one is that the founders thought the constitution would evolve. You can read more thoughts on Newt Gingrich and what he thinks about the myths of the Founding Fathers. Social issues in the campaign and 2016 is our topic. James in alabama, good morning. You are on, go ahead. Caller i like ben carson for president. Host what do you think about social issues though in 2016 . Tell me what youre thinking is on that. Caller like you said, gay folks have the same rights as everybody else. That is how americas made. Host in light of that, you support ben carson . Caller yes. What to become american, you have to do the same thing, everyone has the same rights. Host lets hear from isabela and massachusetts in massachusetts. What do you think about social issues in 2016 . Caller i think social issues are very important, by think were talking about the wrong social issues. We need to remember that the declaration of independence is about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The issues that i care about our Social Security and benefits for people who need them. To be focusing on who can get married to whom, and so forth is ridiculous. We are past that. We should really focus on the general welfare, happiness, and rights of individuals. Host from twitter, one viewer says they are more concerned about the economy. Another viewer says that social issues will always be a means to divide people. Colin from baltimore, maryland. Caller i am so glad to be on. I used to think differently, i used of a religious perspective, but now i have a perspective that gay people should be able to marry each other. If a person skilled in life they should not have to begin at the marriage altar and look for a woman just because they want to get married. You cant say they can never get married because that is not human. It is logical that a gay man would have to marry another game on. That is obvious. I think host when it comes to social issues over all, it doesnt matter as far as thee 2016 context . You dont think about that . Caller you mean the election . Host yes. Caller the fact is that the homosexual marriage is approved by a high majority of the American People. I think my fellow republicans should understand that the Public Opinion is just not moral, but dealing with people how they are. Host . Is up next in albuquerque, new mexico, democrats line. Caller good morning, pedro. Thank you for cspan. Great show as always. I think everyone sort of votes their own social issues, and talks a good game about everyone elses needs and problems. Their neighbor who has not been able to find a job for 20 years cannot even get an interview even though they want to college and got a degree. Those are all things you talk about over the dinner. Over the dinner table. If you are a gay person, you vote for gay rights. You will your own narrowminded social issue because at the end of the day, we are a nation of individuals. Everyone is looking out for number one. There is no one doing anything for anyone except for number one. Host do you think social issues will play out on a larger context for the 2016 campaign . Caller i really do. I think you will see a quickening, a lot of divisive issues. At the end of the day, i think people go in that and vote for their own best interest. I would like to be altra stick altrauistic. There is good in all people. You could probably go to the jail and interviewed charles manson, and you will find something good, but at the end of the day, we vote for number one me, myself, and i. Social issues divide us by what we love and hate, mostly what we hate. They divide us by race, color, gender. We go in there and vote for our needs. Thank you for the time. Host we go next to julius and chicago heights, illinois. Caller i want this be to this issue of gay marriage. If you had a Small Community lets say 1000 adults, and you heard that 200 men married 200 women, no one would be c concerned about that. If you hear 200 men married 200 men, people would be concerned about that. And if 10 million men married 10 million women, no one would be concerned, but if 10 million men married 10 million men, i think everybody would see the concerned about that. Host lets hear from joe in west virginia. Caller i was listening to david barton this morning, he writes on constitutional issues and the Founding Fathers. Back in the 1850s, people wanted to amend the constitution to say take jeffersons letter on church and state, and get that separated completely. The Supreme Court reviewed it took large portions of his letter to prove there was any separation, and later in the same decade, the Supreme Court reiterated that we were based on biblical principles. In the 1900s, in the 1940s and 1950s, they took this again for instance the 10 commandments. They wanted to get rid of the 10 commandments. I just thought, anyone who thinks we should not have the 10 commandments should not make any decisions. Who believes that we should not kill steal, things like that. This is what is affecting all of these social things. When we have everything grounded and biblical principles, where you respect and love your neighbor, then the world is a better place. If anybody cannot see that the world is turning into total chaos and a lot of it began when these decisions came from the Supreme Court we have a Supreme Court that is out of control. They should not be legislating. That is not the job at all. Host can i as, when you go vote for a person next year, even on the local level, how important are social issues to the person that you support . Caller very much. It affects everybody. All of these things affect us. Take for instance the legalization of marijuana. You have kids who cannot think straight because they are high all the time. Host you have heard nine opinion so far on social issues when it comes to 2016. If you want to make your thoughts known as well, 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488001 for republicans. For independents, 202 7458002. If you go to the cbs website the listing they have a listing of the candidates running for president and they give a couple of short paragraphs on the candidates. When it comes to Hillary Clinton, abortion should be legal. That is the news hour website. They have most candidates stances on social issues. The numbers are on the screen. We will go next to jerome and detroit, michigan. Good morning. Caller i think this is hilarious. Number one, when people talk about Supreme Court decisions and how the court should be adjusted let me tell you something, social issues boil down to funding. We are talking about local as well as national. It is all about dividing up money. One of the things that i think will really affect this country in the next four years is the issue of immigration. We are stretching ourselves very thin. No one wants to talk about it. Im not talking about donald trump. Some of the things that this man says is absolutely true. When you talk about that like a said, were talking about money. Rand paul asks some of the most legitimate questions that i have heard why are we in some of these countries why are we allocating funds to people when we should take care of ourselves . Im talking about dollars and how they get stretch. All of a sudden, theres not enough money in the pot. It is all about funding. You cannot fund these programs when you have people here who are not pay into the system. Host ok. Thanks. Freddie from north carolina, social issues in 2016. Good morning. You are on. Caller you know, i hear so many complaints from black people. Im not prejudiced. Im born in the south and lived in the south all my life, and i have a lot of black friends and or have any problems with them. The american indians, you never hear them complaining about how they were treated in the trail of tears. I never heard them complaining one bit. They were put on reservations. The black people, they were given their freedom. God bless them. I went to the south and have seen some bad stuff in the south, but they should not blame all the white people in the south for what is going on now. I love everybody. Everybody realizes one thing, we do have a god and god will be on top of this thing at the end of it. That is my two cents. Host from twitter, the constitution was not designed to handle social issues that we face in 2015. You have heard topics of gay marriage primarily. Gun control was a topic that president obama brought up in South Carolina. One of the things he talked about was the topic of gun control. [video clip] president obama none of us should believe that handful of gun Safety Measures will prevent every tragedy. It will not. People of goodwill will continue to debate the merits of various policies. As our democracy requires, there are good people on both sides of these debates. Whatever solutions we find will necessarily be incomplete. It would be a betrayal of everything reverend pinckney stood for, i believe, if we allow ourselves to slip into a comfortable silence again. Host you can e comment on the social issue of gun control, or other issues. If you want to make your comments known, 202 7488000 democrats. 202 7488001, republicans. Independents, 202 7458002. John is on the line from new york. What do you think of social issues in 2016 . Caller from one perspective host john, are you there . I think john broke up. Apologies for that. Ron in lincoln, nebraska. You are on. Caller first that wanted to say, good job cspan, i love the show. What i wanted to make a comment your caller from michigan correctly pointed out that it is about dollars. As voters, we go to the voting vbooth with social issues in mind, but it is all about dollars. It, i wanted to make about donald trump a comment i wanted to make about donald trump. The republicans threw him in to differentiate, and become again a serious party. I would like to join the Republican Party, but where they stand on social issues and some of the conservative financial stuff, they have lost me. I hope the plan o of the Republican Party is to identify people and kick them out. Host lets hear from sheldon in oklahoma city, oklahoma. Caller my topic is about samesex marriage. I want to start out by saying im not a homophobe. One thing i think the samesex marriage does is it aids in our extinction as a race. You cannot reproduce with the samesex. One thing i can say as well is they advertise it a lot. I feel like that confuses children. If you go back in time, they advertise smoking, but now you see ads about how bad it is. Host do you think social issues overall will be important in 2016 . Caller yes. I think a lot of people are realizing things and waking up. I think we woke up too late. We need to come together and see what to do to fix it, instead of focusing on the bad and how bad it is, action do something about it. Host from twitter, social issues may be a factor but not a top priority. Usa needs to wake up, get smart, or we will become another greece. By the way, greece will be our topic at 9 50 later on this morning 9 15 later on this morning. The hill looks at Economic Issues specifically the budget. You can read more at the hill website this morning. Anthony, we are talking about social issues and the importance they will play in 2016, go ahead. You are on. Caller hello. I believe it happy fourth of july to you. I think you do a very evenhanded job with the news. I would just like to mention that the hobby lobby decision and Citizens United went and showed that the Supreme Court can be very far to the right. Now that the Supreme Court has ruled on gay marriage and obamacare, as one caller said a few minutes ago, they are out of control. They are interpreting the laws. That is their job. That is why we have the Supreme Court. I am in abc democrat, anyone but clinton. Host the New York Times talks about the Supreme Court under Justice Roberts 10 years of an activist court. They say that many times over the conservative majority has changed the laws to disfavor the majority. What he florida, republican line, you are next. Caller good morning. I am a 73yearold christian guy who believes that this is not a christian country. This is a country that allows all religions, including atheism. If to homosexuals want to get married to each other, that is ok with me. It does not bother my marriage. I have a wonderful marriage to a woman, by dont care if two women get married together or two men get married together. That is not a problem at all. Host do you think politics is the place to take on social issues . Caller no, absolutely not. You look at the preamble to the constitution. It will tell you politics and religion do not mix. Host hank from florida. Caller good morning. First of all, i have two comments. My first is donald trump. I am a republican and a gay man. I will say, i do not agree with everything that donald tru