That generated as much heat and animus as this topic did. Please help me welcome a man who stood up to argue and to defend what our nations highest court has now recognized as a constitutional right, professor geoffrey stone. [applause] thank you. Im delighted to be here. My talk this afternoon derives from a book that i am currently finishing titled sex and the constitution. Although the book addresses such issues as obscenity, contraception, homosexuality generally, abortion and so on, i decided to focus specifically this afternoon on the issue of samesex marriage, an issue that cuts to the very heart of the meaning of equal citizenship. In august of 1982, an Atlanta Police officer went to the home of Michael Hardwick to serve an arrest warrant for public drinking. Upon entering the home, he observed hardwick and another man engaged in oral sex. The officer placed both men under arrest for the crime of sodomy. In the case decided in 1986, the Supreme Court held that the homosexual so
The declaration tells us that rights come from god, not government. [ applause ] the constitution has a framework thats set up not as some kind of result of bureaucratic haggling, but as something is designed to protect, promote freedom. And the president is right. In many way, we are a shining city on a hill. But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this citys slender and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the port ko of the white house and the ver randa of thiz ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But theres another city. Another part to the shining city. The part where some people cant pay their mortgages. And most young people cant afford one. Where students cant afford the education they need and middle class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate. In this part of the city, there are more poor than ever. More families in trouble. More and more people who need help, but cant find it. Even worse. There are elde
Poverty, education, health and safety. That is what you are talking about. Our focus was pretty narrow. We cannot do everything, but we did talk about things such as i will give you an example having 911 triage. By that i mean, if you get a 911 call where it appears the incident is involving an individual who is suffering from mental disability, in some cities, they will shift that call to a group of 911 receivers who are actually with special training to deal with and ask the right questions so that the right resources, to the extent that they exist because they dont and all cities, are been deployed to that situation. A lot of times what you have are people receiving calls who dont have adequate training who then deploy people who dont have adequate training to situations that could be completely avoided in a situation where there was training. One final point on this you take the police like the u. K. Where, yes, there are as many guns arent as many guns, but they have, the police h
Not find mitt romney business experience attractive. Not find the tax plan attractive. Didnt like the president. They needed an alternative and campaign didnt. Resent an Economic Growth plan host Reince Priebus putting together an autopsy, learning from 2012. What was your take away from that report and has the party heeded the lesson . Party is heeding the lesson. The autopsy was inefficiently deep. The idea was correctly diagnosed the republicans need to show that theyre compassionate. What they didnt do was take the next step to talk about the recap the Economic Policy that peoples sense compassion. We need to show were good on immigration and other things. Then people would agree with us on our core economics. The coreact its economics thats one of the ing blocks. Host weve seen what happened in paris. Changed orthat pivoted the debate. How has that set up the in 2016 . Ns guest right now its made National Security much more issue. Nt thats one thing they hold an advantage on. Its
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