It is certainly true that in the past dozen years or so, we have witnessed a rise in the fraction of americans that claim no religious affiliation. The survey researchers have termed nones, as in nones, not nuns when i heard that 15 of americans were nuns, i got excited, look out. Even many of the socalled nones see themselves as religious or spiritual and consider religion important in their only daily lives. Moreover, churches are second only to the military in public trust and confidence, way at a public schools, newspapers, labor unions, big businesses and congress. Over the last dozen years or so, virtually all of the major constitutional and other legal challenges to faithbased have resulted in rulings that either favor faithbased efforts or that challenge those that would treat faith motivated citizens as secondclass citizens. Alas, our nations social and civic capital is in excitedly in extrickabley bound up bound with its spiritual capital. That is a fact. It is a fact warmly
Look at u. S. saudi arabia it relations. Then a review talks about the federal budget and government shut down. He says what he thinks the matter what it is. I think you have to be political in a certain way. If you have to be honest and say the same thing. You have to cater to people sometimes i think and know what they want and need to be able to influence and to vote for them. It is not being does on it. Know your going to help them with the. Season to, next week Lady Bird Johnson to roselyn cotter rosalyn carter. Next, a discussion on faith and the white house with current and former directors of the white house faithbased offices. Use met in dallas at as him southernmessages methodist university. Thank you for that kind introduction. Ladies and gentlemen, we at smu and the center for president ial history is honored to have you here with us this evening. I hope i can speak for all of us when i say it is an honor to have our five guests and panelists with us today. These five peopl
Having served from her perch at brookings as a key confidant and friend to both the first bush and the first obama f so calledaith czars and she has begun to develop exciting new faithbased partnerships and initiatives. God bless each of them and god bless resident george w. Bush and god bless president opera obama. Barack obama. I have been teaching at Ivy League Universities for more than 30 years. Having the key value of an Ivy League Professor which means i can speak for five minutes or two hours on any subject with no essential change in content. [laughter] before you hear from my betters on this religion, policy, and civic life. In the half dozen or so years that are seeded the establishment of the office, small but intellectually and ideologically and religiously diverse cadre of policy wonks and opinion leaders came together. What happened was that we trumpeted a fact, a fact that was hiding pretty much in plain view. Namely, the fact that americas urban churches come the synag
Of the tribes that we have here today. Mr. Speaker, leader harry reid, leader nancy pelosi, distinguished guests, honorees, guests and families, we are very proud of you, and im very proud o be included today. Here during native American Heritage month, i have the great privilege of representing the finest military in the world in recognizing the hundreds of native americans who have worn the cloth of our nation in the istinctive way that we celebrate today, and in such a courageous way defending a country that did not always keep its word to their ancestors. [applause] the 33 tribes and 216 individuals we recognize today represent native warriors that leverage their native tongue to defend our nation through an unbreakable code, patriots that possessed a unique capability and willingness to give of their special talent and their lives. As richard west, founding irector of the National Museum of the American Indian so elegantly captured it, language is central to cultural identity. It
It is a Great Partnership with the department of Homeland Security in those with the domestic nexus. It has been our honor and privilege to work with director mueller and Deputy Director joyce. I will turn it over to sean. Thank you for the opportunity to be here today. N. S. A. And the f. B. I. Have a unique relationship and one invaluable since 9 11. I want to highlight a couple of the instances. In the fall of 2009, n. S. A. Using 702 authority intercepted an email from a terrorist located in pakistan. That individual was talking with an individual located inside the United States talking about perfecting a recipe for explosives. Through Legal Process, that individual was identified and he was located in denver, colorado. The f. B. I. Followed him to new york city and later executed search warrants with the new York Joint Terrorism Task force and n. Y. P. D. And found bombmaking components and backpacks. He later confessed to a plot to bomb the new york subway system with backpacks.