Its a great day to be alive. Here at the Heritage Foundation i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. From School Shootings and declining sunday attendance. Hyper partisanship and politics. And its tempting to turn off the tv to adopt the benedict option. That isnt what we are about here. That isnt the american way. He never surrendered without and despair even in a time of war or economic or cultural crisis americans have always risen to any challenge in our lives, liberty and happiness. Always there have arise had aria time of crisis men and women who call for the best in us into such a president ial individual is our guest today. Its not only my opinion, and ive known him for quite a few years, but that of National Leaders like the founder of the Alliance Defending freedom to former attorney general in there about American Restoration of faith, family and personal sacrifice can heal our nation. Jim and his coauthor explain how you and i can restore the first principle of
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, a Beautiful Day in washington dc. I always say that but it is. The sun has come out, the rain has stopped and here we are, great day to be alive at the Heritage Foundation. My name is lee edwards, at the Heritage Foundation, i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. It is all too easy these days to focus on the negative in our nation. From School Shootings and the declining sunday attendance in our churches to racist rhetoric, hyper partisanship in our politics. It is tempting to turn off the tv, close down all the apps and adopt the benedict option. That is not what we are about here. That is not the american way. We never surrendered to doubt and despair even in time of war or economic or cultural crisis. Since our founding 234 years ago americans have always risen to any challenge in our lives, liberty and our happiness. Always there have reason in time of crisis men and women who called forth the best of us, the better angels of our
Greg it is trends wednesday. Less about trends than the last of confidence. We are seeing more example of people using the banner of trends to do bad things. Who can forget Kayla Lemieux . The two biggest glue guns you have ever seen. [laughter] i was so preoccupied with her story i forgot i only fish. [laughter] all right. Anyway, the teacher demanded that the school complied with her identity choices. So standards were dropped. Meanwhile, in prisons, violent male felons would identify as women to get into womens jails. Basic rules about rapists being that among women were somehow ignored. In sports, men were saying they were women and the doors swung open like a pair of untucked balls. [laughter] thank you. And now we have a new example, trans power lifter just set a canadian Womens National record at the canadian powerlifting 2023 Western Canadian championship in manitoba. Yeah, Watch Anne Porter the man in manitoba. Put the man in manitoba. [cheers and applause] greg wow. She is de
[applause] jeanne: good afternoon. [applause] jeanne: and a very, very warm welcome to everyone here. a big thank you to we are messengers for their fantastic performance. i m jeanne mancini and i m honored to serve as president of the march for life. [applause] jeanne: on behalf of the board and our whole march for life team, i would like to welcome you to the 47th march for life, the largest annual human rights demonstration in the world. [applause] jeanne: we re going to begin by saying the pledge of allegiance, which is going to be led by a.j. delgrado, the grand knight of the georgetown council of the knights of columbus. a.j. ]ting a.j.: please face the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands. one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. [applause] jeanne: ok. now i m delighted to welcome angelica park, miss san antonio s outstanding teen 2018 , who will lead us i
good afternoon. a very warm welcome to everyone here. a big thank you for your fantastic performance. i am jeanne mancini and i am honored to serve as president of the march for life. the largest annual human rights demonstration in the world. [applause] we are going to begin by saying the pledge of allegiance which is going to be led by the grand knight of the georgetown council of the knights of columbus. please face the flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands. one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. [applause] ok. i am delighted to welcome angelica park, san antonio s outstanding teen 2018 who will lead us in the national anthem. [singing] oh say can you see, by the dawn s early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming? whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly st