>> the bill was sent over to the senate by the house republicans, and the senate just tabled the, tabled the request to pay us to open up part of the veterans' department so that we could receive our compensation. how are we supposed to live? we served our country. we didn't ask any questions. we served our country, and now they -- the democrats in the house, i mean, in the senate -- refuse to pay us so we can't

live. are we going to end up in ohmless shelters -- homeless shelters? >> as far as obamacare goes, i understand it was a law passed, and i understand -- and i stand behind that. however, i do not like the fact that the president can change things at will. we're so worried about what the republicans want to do, it's obama who made the first move. he's the one that started giving all these exemptions. if that's good enough for me, why is it not good enough for them? >> if we had the british system, we would dissolve congress as they would dissolve parliament or some entity that they're got getting the dollars. >> my greatest concern is there's no discussion of ways to increase revenue into the

federal government. in all my years of balancing a budget, i've always had to look at increasing work time, working overtime, getting a second job. all my children have worked two and three jobs to be able to get through school. i feel that the, all the congressmen need to consider the opportunities of revenue increase in this need to decrease the debt of the american people. >> niagara is a reconstruction of the ship that was built here in 1812, 1813, actually, the winter of 1813 for the battle of lake erie. it was built to wrest control of the lake with the rest of the

squadron of ships that was built here. this ship incorporates some timbers from the original. they're not structural, they're not load bearing, they're juris embedded in the frame between the pieces, and they're a symbolic piece of the original ship. what's original about the ship is the way it sails, the fact that all the rigging of the sails, the work the crew has to do is very much what the seamen had to do in 1813. >> [inaudible] >> we teach history, we teach people an appreciation of the war of 1812 and the maritime history of the great lakes. but really most of the learning that takes place onboard is about functioning as members of a team of a ship's company. it's the seamanship that they're learning that, i think, is of real value now because this is a place where we can continue certain traditions and certain

attitudes and abilities that have been with us for centuries, and we kind of perpetuate them and keep that going here. >> commodore oliver perry would help lead the u.s. to victory in the battle of lake erie. we look at the history and literary life of eerie, pennsylvania, on c-span2 and 3. >> on friday the family research council held its eighth annual values voters summit in washington d.c. speakers including house budget committee chairman paul ryan, representative michele bachmann and former pennsylvania senator and 2012 presidential candidate rick santorum. this is an hour, 50 minutes. >> our next speaker is not only the first republican woman to serve in the house of representatives for the state of minnesota, she is also the first republican woman to run for the united states of america. [cheers and applause]

she has been a true champion for values voters on cutting spending, government waste and defending the constitution. she has been the most outspoken opponent to obamacare. and as most of you know by now, next year she'll be stepping down from the house. so would you use this opportunity as she comes to the podium to not only welcome her to the values voters summit, but to thank her for her amazing courage in representing our values in this nation? ladies and gentlemen, michele bachmann! [cheers and applause] ♪ pleasure. ♪ ♪ >> oh, what a beautiful sight! [laughter] what a beautiful sight! thank you! you're having a good day, aren't

you? i love you too. i love you too. thank you so much. thank you for being here for the values voters summit. i don't know if you noticed on your program right now miley cyrus was supposed to be up here speaking, and they made me the substitute, so i hope that's okay for you this afternoon! [applause] okay. so here was the story. i was out walking, minding my own business as i usually do in the morning. i usually am causing trouble in d.c., but in the mornings i go out and i walk, and i usually am walking somewhere around the national mall and somewhere around the memorials. so i was out walking, as i said, minding my own business, enjoying the beautiful day. it was about 80 degrees out, and all of a sudden on my phone in came an e-mail. and it was from one of my fellow colleagues who i'm sure you all know and love, steve king of iowa, and the e-mail said there

was an honor flight coming into the world war ii memorial, and he said that there are bare raids up, and there -- barricades up, and there will be many, many of our finest generation that will be there, the greatest generation. it was an all points bulletin for members of congress to come down and face down the national park service and open up the world war ii memorial. [applause] so i went in my mom clothes, that's what i walk around in in the morning. i went over to the memorial, and i went from the back side, and i couldn't believe my eyes. here were tour buses facing the world war ii memorial, a fairly narrow strip of sidewalk, and iron barricades had been set up with police tape. so i pulled out my camera, i took the photos because i thought when are you ever going to see world war ii vets shut out of their own memorial. my step dad had just taken an honor flight as an 89-year-old

together with my 88-year-old uncle, highlight of their life. my uncle had subsequently passed away from taking that honor flight. and i thought to myself, really, you would say no to an 84 to a 99-year-old and prevent them from coming in and seeing their own monument? so i ran over. louie gohmert had his scissors, steve next to barrier, i yelled charge, and away we go, and we open the barriers! [cheers and applause] you can try your petty tyrannies, but you're never going to succeed. [applause]

every single day since that fateful morning we have had members of congress at the honor flights including this last saturday. steve king told me that there were going to be ten honor flights coming that day, and did we want to go and take a patriotic tour and make sure that we would be there for every honor flight. so we went down, i had a big contingent from my home state of minnesota, and we were there to make sure that those memorials were open. but then after we had done our duty, it was actually 90 degrees on saturday. and by the way, in an additional act of pettiness, the obama administration also when it's 90 degrees decided to turn off the water fountains on the national mall on saturday. but they went one worse. they shut down the public bathrooms that were needed to be required for those who were there, the world war ii veterans. and so steve and i said let's keep going, we're not done.

so we opened up the world war ii memorial, and then we went on to the vietnam memorial. the vietnam memorial also had barricades around it, and it even went better, it had a national park service ranger standing in front. you never see park rangers in front of these memorials ever, they're open to the public. then we saw a female police officer holding a german shepard. you want to talk about an act of intimidation to keep people out, and we said what's going on, officer? why aren't the people allowed to come in? she said, well, the memorials are closed, and i'm volunteering. and so i said to him, you volunteer to do this? so after that we asked him who's allowed to come in, because it had a narrow opening. they said those who went to serve in vietnam and the family members of those who lost people on the wall. now think of the discretion. i give you just this example. think of the discretion and the

power that the commander in chief has arrogated to himself, and that's our symbol. that's our symbol. so steve and i said, no, this is a first amendment right to come into this memorial. we physically lifted up the iron barriers, we put them to the side, we said come in, one and all. this is your memorial. you're americans, and come on in. [applause] hundreds of vims came -- of individuals came into that memorial, and then we decided to leave what was happening at the korean memorial. that is a very difficult memorial to put barricades around, but the park service managed to do it. we walked up again to the ranger, we asked the ranger what was going on. we heard the same song and dance. so once again we had, we had

americans in wheelchairs and mothers with baby strollers, and so we did the same thing. we opened up that barrier, and we got the war memorial -- korean war memorial open, and people were able to go in and go out. from there we walked over to the lincoln memorial, one of the most infamous memorials, to see yellow police tape barricading as well as barricades. as steve and i stood in front of the memorial, we saw a grandmother and a grandfather with their 10-year-old grandson. and they said to us, you know, we asked our grandson on his 10th birthday which was last saturday where would you like to go for your 10th birthday. he could have gone anywhere in the united states, he could have gone to disneyland, but he told us he wanted to see the lincoln memorial. and we're here today for our grandson, we don't know what to do. so i turned to steve, and i said you know what we gotta do -- [laughter] and he's not going to fight any

more with me. so we went up to the barrier. a woman was listening to us, steve had his wire cutters in his pocket pause that's what we need -- because that's what we need now. so we went up to the barrier, and one woman said this one doesn't have any wire on it. so once again steve and i lifted up the iron barriers, we moved them aside, we took our scissor, we cut the police tape. he and i went up the steps. we had some other people with us, we said come on, let's go up, let's take this hill. 600 americans took the lincoln memorial on saturday! [cheers and applause] we took that hill, and this is the police lineup tape. [cheers and applause] this is our consolation prize. and so the obama administration -- this is our

symbol. you see, the obama administration is turning us into a police line. i say we are not a police line. you can choose that, or, mr. president, you can choose to follow article ii in the constitution of the united states. [applause] because you have absolutely no right to arrogate that level of power to yourself just like we saw this last year with the private inn on the blue ridge parkway in north carolina where we had heard from mark meadows, a member of congress, last friday morning that unbelievably the united states government was going to shut down a private inn with no federal money and no federal employees. we heard that friday morning. that afternoon i picked up my phone in by office, i called the opener of the inn, i said your member of congress, mark meadows, told us your predicament. i want you to know there are

members of congress who will stand with you. at 1:15 in the afternoon the owner said you better act quick pause they're shutting -- because they're shutting the gates to my motel. i told him go out, take pictures of what's going on, and you show america what's happening to a private business owner. that afternoon i called my husband, i said now think of this -- this is the 18th government shutdown since the time of jimmy carter. although some people say the four years of jimmy carter was probably the longest american shutdown. [laughter] but i called my husband, and i said to him, now just think, in the next shutdown -- we own two private health clinics. i said, now imagine, obamacare came online during this shutdown. so in the future presumably people will purchase health insurance, be they can get to them, in these private exchanges. so in the future in a shutdown, will we see another president

obama move where he puts padlocks on a private clinic like ours just because we might be able to take insurance? will they stop a kidney transplant in process? will they stop a scheduled c-section in process? what will they do? who would have ever thought you'd shut down the lincoln memorial or the world war ii memorial? who would have thought they'd ever shut down pheasant season in minnesota after you've already bought your permit? [laughter] who would have thought on a state highway in front of mount rushmore there'd be barriers and cones so that people couldn't get in on a state highway pullout to be able to see mount rushmore. who would have ever thought it? i love the fight of people in south dakota, because they removed the cones, they removed the barriers. the obama administration put it back. four feet of snow fell, and the

snowplows pushed the cones and the barriers down the canyon! take that! [cheers and applause] you see, this is a big fight. we're supposed to be ashamed about obamacare. i'm not. i'm not ashamed. when obamacare, when obamacare passed, i was there that night grieving, weeping on the floor when obamacare passed on the house of representatives. i had made the first call to the american people, and i called you all to come into washington, d.c. to look at the whites of the eyes of the members of congress and say to them not with my health care, you don't. 40,000 of you responded and came to washington d.c. that created the rise of the tea party, and that created the victory that pulled the gavel out of nancy pelosi's hand in 2010. that was the tea party that did that. [applause] the night that obamacare passed,

i turned to mike pence on the floor, now the governor of the state of indiana, and i said, mike, we have to tell the american people that we haven't waved the white flag of surrender on socialized medicine. i said somebody's got to introduce the bill to repeal it. he said go for it, michelle. i did. i went back to my office, wrote the repeal bill, and i was the first one on the floor the next morning. i introduced the repeal bill. steve king later that day also introduced a repeal day. we've been fighting ever since. this is consequential because it is life and death for the american people and for the american economy. it's worth fighting over. [applause] but this fight that we're in right now is far bigger than even the obamacare fight, far bigger. it's far bigger than the national bankruptcy that is impending upon our nation right

now, that is putting our children's future at risk. it's bigger than the debt. it's bigger than the spending. because i submit to you today what is at risk in all of this is whether we will be the police line state or whether we will be a constitutional republic. it is that grave and that consequential. because an election was had. the results weren't what we all wanted to see, but an election was had. we have a democrat president. we have a democrat-controlled senate. but we have a republican-controlled house by virtue of the election of the american people. they said we will have a divided government, and a divided government we have. and we will not silence the voice of the american people in this fight. because, you see, if the

president can be petty as he is, you see it firsthand in these death benefits that are denied to the fallen as if it wasn't enough to leave our men on the field if men benghazi. now he is using our soldiers as political pawns. [applause] this is the height of throwing under the bus some of the most innocent victims that there are. we do not forget. and we do stand, and we do fight. [applause] and i say to you all this isn't the time for caving. this is the time for standing. and i am proud of the leadership in the house. usually i'm fighting the leadership in the house like about 99% of the time. i am here to say to you i've been extremely proud that we have stood. because what i have seen is that fight and resolve that says the people count. and you've got to pay attention.

that's why, to me, when it comes to obamacare, i have stood for repeal. i have begged for defund. thank you, ted, thank you, mike. i have stood for that. but i believe what we must stand for now is to make sure that obamacare is voluntary for everyone in the united states. the best line this week was how could we possibly force 100% of americans to be taxed to pay for a product they don't want to buy from a web site that does not work. [applause] and so, therefore, whether you are in big business, whether you are a small business, whether you are an average american which is the greatest thing in the world to be, whether you are a doctor can, a nurse, a medical device manufacturer, an insurer, whoever you are this e agreement juice system -- egregious system

that will be ultimately known as death care must be defeated. and, you see, this is our line in the sand, a police state versus constitutional republic. this is it. when the federal government controls your health care, they literally control life and death. and so i say we should do no less than demand that president obama allow obamacare to be voluntary for every american. no forcing anyone to go into this system. if you thought the nsa was looking at your private data, you haven't seen anything until these federal data private hubs are created. i'll end with this. you see, it was 1,281 years ago today that charles measuring artel -- martel won the victory at tours. that day changed the course of

history. for 100 years the islamic marauders had won battle after battle after battle and were moving their fear and tear tyranny across the world. you see, charles martel stood up against that. the famous, brilliant victor davis hanson wrote an article. this military historian told us about what this meant for the rise of modern europe. you see, it was a persecution, and it was the suffering that was brought about by this islamic insurgency that brought about the unity from charles martel where they literally stood shoulder to shoulder with their shields up and their javelins pointed, and they won that decisive battle. and charlemagne became the father of modern europe. and christian europe and thals of christian europe prevailed and ultimately led to those same immigrants coming to the united

states and creating this magnificent country. you see, battles count. you need to know when to fight. this is the time to fight. this is our moment for posterity! [applause] and i thank god that we finally have the will to stand up, take on oppressive president! [cheers and applause] and stand for what is good and righteous and true! it's a battle of our time. you choose! you choose. [applause] it's the battle of our time. god bless you, and god bless the united states t of america. god bless you! [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

>> all right, let us compose ourselves. [laughter] no, this is a call to action, and you can do something about that. make that call to the capitol switchboard. call your congress people from your state, let them know where you stand on obamacare. and be sure to pick up a stampede shirt at our rem straight. go to our registration desk and you get bumper stickers, t-shirts, whatever you need. well, our next speaker grew up in the civil rights movement led by her uncle, reverend martin luther king. she currently serves as a pastoral associate and director of african-american outreach for priests for life and gospel of life ministries. she is also a voice for the silent no more awareness

campaign sharing her personal testimony about abortion, god's forgiveness and healing. she is a recipient of the life prize award and also the cardinal john o'connor pro-life hall of fame in 2011. she is also a best-selling author. among her books is "how can the dream survive if we murder the children?" ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome to the podium right now dr. al said da king? -- alveda king? [applause] ♪ ♪ >> praise the lord, praise the lord, praise the lord! hallelujah! praise the lord! glory, glory, glory! thank you so much. can you raise your hands like this just for a second and help me just with a little bit of in this verse, and then i do have some words to share. ♪ then sings my soul, my savior

god to thee. >> take it to the end. ♪ how great thou art, how great thou art. ♪ glory to god! [cheers and applause] he is worthy, he is worthy. i'm glad congressman bachmann didn't sing, because it was already hard to come up here behind her. i tell you, such power, such truth that i've heard from even who has spoken today, and i thank god for each of you and your presence as well. i have written some remarks, so please follow with me. as we stand together today praying for faith, family and opportunity for all, we can only be amazed by the hope that is rising among we, the people. as i approach my tenth year as director of african-american

outreach for priests for life, i look back at how far we've come, but i don't look back for long, because at the same time i know how far we yet have to travel. together we can embrace the power of faith working in our lives through god's love. we must believe that love will carry us over difficult bridges. we are, indeed, facing turbulent times. you may remember that last year a man, theodore shulman, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for threatening the life of father frank pallone. here in d.c., the family research council, however, faced more than a threat. you endured an attack, frc, on the lives of everyone on the frc staff. a gay rights activist entered

the building with enough ammunition to kill everyone in it. he came to frc as a gunman fueled by hate amongerring from the southern poverty law center. the shooter admitted he was directed by the center's web site. while fplc claims to fight against hate, they have been saying hateful thing about groups who are represented here today. by the grace of god, the heroism of frc security officer mr. leo johnson -- who took a bullet -- yes, yes, yes. [applause] god bless him and his family. who took a bullet from the shooter, many deaths were averted. today the shooter is behind bars as a result of being equitied for domestic terrorism -- convicted for domestic terrorism. but the group many others still

roam free to confuse the masses with their deceptions. friends, make no mistake, no matter our political affiliations or our church denominations or our personal design or issue of the day, we are now called together to humbly fight the good fight. [applause] yes. yes. yes. so together in unity and love for humanity, we gird ourselves with the truth. we walk with the gospel of peace, and we carry the shield of faith. our sword is not a spinning sound bite, a poll or a focus group, but the word of god. please permit me to give you a personal confession. at the top of my list of regrets are the death of three of my children, one through miscarriage and two by abortion. down the list, i regret having said to a group of peers that my

uncle, m.l., was a republican. yes, my grandfather, dr. martin luther king sr., was a registered republican, but uncle m.l. was an independent. uncle m.l. followed the pattern of not publicly endorsing a political party or candidate. he once wrote: i feel someone must remain in the position of nonalignment so that he can look object ily at both parties and be the conscience of both, not the servant or master of either. i'm not in inextricably bound to either party. as one who has been elected to the georgia house of representatives as a democrat and who has been a presidential appoint tee in a republican administration, i am beginning to understand the wisdom of my uncle m.l.. my aim is not to become involved in political squabbles, but to speak the truth as best i can. we are commanded to pray for those in authority, and i know that we all do that.

we also pray for our nation, understanding that human reasoning and human solutions are too finite to bring an ultimate resolution to our problems. the saddest and sickest heart longs for the gift of salvation in christ. recent reparks remind us that human beings have immediate problems in their lives, and these problems are not limited to the great moral questions of our times. pope francis says that he must deal with the entire human condition, not just two pressing questions, abortion and marriage. yet he is not suggesting that there is in any way a license to sin. rather, he is advocating for a license to repent, to be healed and to be delivered from human failings. human issues, social issues are intertwined. aworse, for instance -- abortion, for instance, cannot be separated from the breakdown of the family which account no be separated from the attack of

natural procreated marriage. neither can abortion be separated from rape, child abuse or a host of other issues. i believe that when pope frap sis is look -- francis is looking at the entire human condition, he's speaking to every human heart and so must we. when i look at this human condition today, i seeville triplets -- evil trip relates, racism, reproductive genocide and sexual perversion, and it will take jesus to set that record straight. [applause] hallelujah, glory to god. i once thought that white people killed my uncle. i told you this was a confession. not just one white man or a a conspiracy of white man, but all white men were responsible. my father, reverend alfred daniel williams king k corrected me. he said, alveda, you cannot hate white people. white people did not kill your uncle, the devil did. white people march and die with

us fighting for freedom for everyone. before that i thought that god wanted me to hate white people, and i was angry with god for creating white people and the human condition called racism. you see how confused i was. it took my earthly father and my heavenly father to help me realize that acts 17:26 is true, there is only one human race, not separate races. we are all of one human blood. [applause] hallelujah. hallelujah. i have met people who battle with sexual perversion and human sexuality issues. for example, i've met according to matthew 19 some people who may have been born gay, some people who may have been made gay. you nick doesn't mean only castration, and some people who have chosen to be gay. on the other hand, i have met people who were born with conditions or developed

conditions of sickness and disease in their bodies -- high blood pressure, high blood sugar , heart problems, all kinds of issues. i myself have suffered from a human error called abortion, yet i've been forgiven and healed by the blood of jesus. so -- hallelujah. so there is no human condition whether it is lust or sickness or greed or any condition of the heart, the body or the soul that cannot be cured, healed or delivered and set free and transformed by the blood of jesus. [applause] hallelujah. hallelujah. if we were born a surgeon way no d a certain way no matter what way that was, we can be born again. hallelujah. so, therefore, we must all embrace each other in what my uncle m.l. called the beloved community. in love we must carry all our cares to the lord and leave them there. today we are at an impasse, a

seeming impasse over obamacare. the president says that if we won't pay for free birth control and abortion, he won't let the government operate. my friends, i have daughters and granddaughters. they need free poison birth control and life-destroying abortion like they need holes in their head. [applause] oh, no. what our families need is good education, decent safe living environments, good jobs as they grow up and good work ethics and moral values. they need the security of living in a world free of terrorism. they need healthy bodies and a healthy, growing economy. they need so much, and washington is not delivering a check banked on a solid foundation. recently as i went through airport security, the tsa officer was so sad that i had to stop and pray for him before i made it through checkpoint. [laughter] this is really the good, good truth.

the officer was on salary furlough but was required to work anyway because the shutdown prevented him from getting a salary. after the prayer i received a very somber thank you, and my credentials were then returned to me. what is so amazing to me is that our veterans and others are being needlessly and directly impacted with no end in sight for relief. why must veterans and honest, hard working americans suffer so that forcibly subsidized birth control and abortions can reign? friends, this is why this summit so important, and i'm so glad to see all of you. we can pray together for those who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and not deceitful lives. and we can act together to encourage and elect government officials who have hearts for righteousness. my uncle, m.l., in his 1960 christmas sermon spoke these words: man -- and this is

woman -- we are children of god made in his image and, therefore, must be respected as such. and when we truly believe in the sacredness of human personality, we won't exploit people, we won't trample over people with the iron feet of oppression, we won't kill anybody. my uncle also wrote a book titled "why we can't wait." well, i'm so encouraged to see that we are not waiting anymore. we, the people, red and yellow, black and white, all precious in god's sight are crossing every barrier to march to the polls and vote for true freedom and true liberty. as we move ahead, may god bless and guide us, amen and glory, hallelujah! [applause] ♪ his truth is marching on glory! [laughter] [applause] ♪ ♪

>> our next speaker, gary but b, was so disappointed because he wanted to start off with singing -- laugh a laugh but now that's been stolen. no, i do want to say about our next speaker that he is one of the original pioneers of the pro-life, pro-family and pro-values movement for more than three decades. many readers quote from ronald reagan, this man actually served in his administration as his undersecretary of education and chief domestic policy adviser for eight years. he has served as senior vice president for focus on the family and also as president of the family research council and ran for president of the united states in 2000. today he serves as chairman of campaign for working families pac, dedicated to electing conservative candidates to congress and as president of american values. ladies and gentlemen, would you

please welcome columnist, radio talk show host and true values voter pioneer, gary bauer. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> thank you. thank you very much. i appreciate that. i think i tell you this every year, that when you give somebody a standing ovation, you really put them on the spot. ronald reagan told me once at the white house that after i got out of the administration and would speak more, that if i ever got a standing ovation when i was introduced, i should sit down immediately, because i had nowhere to go but down after that. [laughter] so i'm proceeding at my own risk, my friends. still, it was a very warm welcome, i appreciate it. how many of you were here today when senator cruz had to put up with that unpleasantness in the audience?

[applause] you know, folks, don't miss what this is about, okay? this is what the political left of in america is today. this is the kind of harassment that you're subjected to if you're michele bachmann or if you're ted cruz or if you're the congressmen that were up here a little while ago. anybody that comes to this city and stands for your values, they just don't get into debates, they don't have to deal with just an opponent, they are harassed. it's the politics of personal destruction. ted cruz campaigned on stopping obamacare and told the people of texas if they elected him senator, he would come to washington, d.c. and do what he promised to do. and for that he must now be destroyed. one year ago when i came out to talk to you, benghazi had just happened. i had just come down from my

hotel room. hillary clinton and the president were welcoming the families of the dead men that were killed in benghazi. and they were saying to these families our hearts go out to you. we're going to get to the bottom of this. we'll find out who did this. ladies and gentlemen, we now know they knew then who did it. do you think that when hillary clinton goes around the country speaking she has to deal with hecklers in the audience the way a ted cruz does? the -- come to think of it, maybe we ought to start adopting some of their tactics. [applause] unbelievable. unbelievable. anyway, my friends, this is all part of the war that we're in. rush limbaugh said the other day that he felt we were living in a dying country. i love rush, but i would disagree to a certain extent. i believe we're living in a

country that's being killed. not just dying. whether it's our culture, our values, our faith, our history, all are under attack from the radical left. day by day, ten by step -- step by step america as we have known it is being pulled out by its roots from the rich soil, the nurturing earth of judeo-christian civilization. the moral code of judeo-christian civilization everywhere it has gone has brought decency and tolerance with it. it inspired our founders. it taught us that liberty comes from god. it protected the weak. because of judeo-christian civilization, the slaves were liberated. that civilization teaches wherever it is that all human

beings -- whether it's a newborn with down's syndrome or a 90-year-old sinking into dementia -- that all human beings regardless of the color of their skin have dignity and value and worth because they were made in the image of god. [applause] but that civilization and what it teaches is hated. it's hated by the radical, secular left, and it's hated by the radical islamists. today discuss agree on everything -- they disagree on everything, but they agree on this: that judeo-christian civilization and people like you must be destroyed if they are going to successfully remake america into something that we don't recognize. my friends, that's how important this battle is to this country and to your future.

this country was founded by brilliant men, and i believe today had god's wisdom when they founded it. they built it because they wanted it to be a shining city on a hill, and today this dear country built by brilliant men is governed by stupid men. [applause] men, men without chest, as c.s. lewis called similar men if his era. think of the words that used to define the united states and our civilization, words like decency, honor, virtue. these are now dusty verbal relics of a bygone age. ..

to argue that the sexual promiscuity practice by her and her friends on georgetown university's campus was so pronounced that she could not pay for her birth control pills or condoms for her partners, and still have money left over for her textbooks or to be able to have three meals a day. now, my friends, we can sigh

about that. we can fret about it. we can shake our heads. but do you know what? sandra fluke became a factor in the election. it looked like an embarrassment, but she was used in the campaign to scare women between 18-30, that somehow if mitt romney was elected president they wouldn't have birth control pills. and that same tactic is being used today in virginia against kuching alley in the gubernatorial campaign. it is so absurd, you don't even know what to say about it. president of the united states, last year picked up crashing after sandra fluke testified to call her and tell her how proud he was of her. i still remember when presidents made personal phone calls to

astronauts to tell them how proud they were of them. that, of course, the space programs and the trashcan thrown near barack obama. i remember when presidents used to call heroic policemen or soldiers or someone had gone to the point of laying down or trying, put their own life online for somebody else. now we live in an era where a president praises a promiscuous coed because she thinks you ought to buy her birth control pills. that, my friend, is the definition of civilization -- services additional decline. [applause] >> now we have a new heroine. how many of you -- is anybody from texas? there you go. the new heroine coming out of

texas, senator wendy davis -- think about this for a second. senator davis stopped business in the texas legislature. she filibustered with her now iconic pink sneakers on. and she's a heroine. ted cruz filibustered on the floor of the senate against obamacare. he's a bum. [inaudible] >> absolutely. [applause] what did the state senators filibuster about, to get some great idea but how to create jobs, how to get the texas economy to grow even better? no. her cause on the floor of the legislature of texas was to insist that in every and any month of the pregnancy that the

women of texas have the right to destroy unborn children. now look, there's a lot of people that consider themselves pro-life that say, look, in the first trimester i can understand, maybe the baby, it doesn't really -- whatever. there's some splits about that. you ask the american people if they think you can be allowed to have an abortion in the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy, they will look at you in horror. that is what senator wanted to guarantee would be the law in texas. not only that, she wanted to make sure those abortions in the late months of the pregnancy took place in dirty abortion clinics that did not have to follow normal health standards. now, this woman, i am told by the evening news every night, so

it must be true, is the hope of the texas democratic party. they believe that she's got a good chance to be the next governor of texas. what in the world happened to the party of fdr, harry truman, and jfk? the party that wanted to protect the little guy in america. the party that today abandons the littlest guy of all to the abortionists knife. what happened to that party? my friends, if texas in their wildest imagination would elect this woman, i can't imagine it, but it tells us something. that she is considered a heroine come with her bumper sticker, abortion for any reason in dirty clinics. now there is a cause you can rally to.

you know, not many months ago president obama went to a convention of abortionists, people who profit. the president has spoken out about the dirty profits of the bankers, drug companies and dirty profits of our energy industry. but he proudly walked into face an audience like this. imagine a room. it was filled with at least as many people. people to get up every morning and only have one thing to do that day, destroy innocent human life. i'm told the feeling in the room was electric. the president getting this incredible response. this president that cannot find one of abortion he would stop, gazing into the eyes of thousands of abortionists who have never found a baby they were willing to save. and looking out into that crowd

he said the one thing -- lots of political figures, to speak to them. he said the one thing they yearned to hear. he looked into their eyes and he said, keep it up, and god bless you. god bless you. think about this for a second. the people that he asked god of abraham, isaac and jacob to bless, those people have destroyed more black babies, have exploited more black women than the ku klux klan in the most racist dreams could have ever hoped to kill. and the first man of color to occupy the office of the

presidency goes to those people who locate their abortion clinics intentionally in minority, low-income areas, praises them and asks god to bless their work. ladies and gentlemen, he off to be ashamed of himself -- the odd to be ashamed of himself. [applause] through i listen to the wonderful remarks are my friend, national ocwen. man, i'm going to miss her in congress. like her this week, the last couple of weeks i focus a lot as i'm sure you did what was happening to our veterans here in washington, d.c. i found myself thinking a lot about spike bauer, my dad. he was a janitor. never finished high school. he was no saint, my friend.

i'm not going to making something that he wasn't. he had a tough life. he was an orphan, grasp the all his life with wife birth parents had abandoned him. he drank too much. he had what today is called an anger management problem. he didn't earn the name spike like playing chess, i want to tell you. spike bauer commented, he couldn't quote many bible verses, but he loved god. he couldn't tell you all the statistics about why children need mothers and fathers, that he loved me and he loved my mom, even though we had a lot of hard times i don't member there ever been a time when he didn't figure out a way to make enough money to keep food on the table and pay the mortgage. my dad was in the marines in world war ii, first marine corps division in the south pacific. when i was growing up i didn't

fully understand. i used to try to get him to talk about it, and he never would until eventual i wore them down. one night we sat at the kitchen table when he told me unbelievable things that he saw, and things that he had to do in service to his country. and i found myself wishing i never asked. the haunted me for years. i couldn't imagine anybody having to go through that. these last two weeks, it was men like spike bauer that were told they couldn't go to the memorial held in their honor. one of those on airplanes that landed out at reagan national, filled with guys like my dad, was met by a bunch of reporters. and they went up to these veterans and they said, you know the more moral is close, right? and you came all the way to washington to go to a close

memorial? and the one guy responded, well, when we got to the beaches of normandy, they were close, too. [cheers and applause] >> i couldn't help but think about the fact that the president of the united states -- look, don't be mistaken about this. if we don't accomplish anything in this lousy several weeks of this battle, make sure your neighbors understand that the reason that veterans couldn't visit their memorials is that the president of the united states ordered the office of management and budget to order the park service to make life miserable for any american using our parks. anybody that wanted to go to those memorials.

the park police said it. we've been told to make life miserable, but one lady said. she probably isn't working at the park service anymore. said the president of the united states, on his orders, had the fence built around the world war ii memorial, but he sure won't build a fence at the southern border to keep out illegal immigrants. keep out our veterans, oh, yeah, he would do that. my friends, if my father were alive today, i would not be here giving this speech. i would be down at the d.c. jail putting up the bail to get him out of jail. how much more from this bitter cup do we have to drink? how much more?

the pew research poll showed a few months ago that the majority of, overwhelming majority of the american people now believe that our liberty is in jeopardy. not from nazism. not from communism. not even from radical islam, although i could certainly make that case. no, they think their liberty is at jeopardy from their own governments. a lot of americans might be confused about the events of the last two weeks. but on this they agree with us. they know government is to be. they know more and more encroaches on our liberty. darrell issa said the other day, congressman issa, we're entering a period of love my country, but fear my government. my old boss, ronald reagan, once said much to the chagrin of the leftist elite, we are a nation that has a government, not the other way around.

right? [applause] in my travels around the country i talked to a lot of people like you, but i talk to people on wall street. i talk to lots of people in a lot of different walks of life. i event is over and over and over again. there is a growing sense of unease, a feeling that we are on the edge of an abyss, that something really terrible is going to happen. i was on a website not too long ago when a young father, a young catholic father went online to share a story. he had taken his sons to mass that sunday, and he was watching his boys kneeling and praying. and he said suddenly this wave of nausea came across him. because he realized that if he

continued to do what his parish priest told him to do, which is to raise up his children with godly values, to follow the scripture, that if he continued to do that, he was probably preparing his sons for prison. and then he wrote this. i'm not talking about troubled times ahead for my grandchildren's children in some possible future. i'm talking about my kids, so revolutionary is that the recent changes in america, persecution is close. and it's not just guys like this, every man, this average catholic father, bishop -- i'm sorry, cardinal george in chicago, not too long ago wrote the following -- he said i expected to die in bed. most of us do, a hospital bed, a

bed at home. ip said my successor will die in prison. and i believe it is possible his successor will die a martyr in the public square right here in chicago. a bishop, a cardinal of the catholic church said that. my friends, our founders didn't recognize the country that gave us. if they were in washington, d.c. the last couple of weeks, it would be overwhelming to them the power that is not vested in the presidency. they would marvel how big government has grown, how much our liberties are shrinking. this is a country that has so much technology, so many scientific advances. we are searching for the smallest particle of matter that composes all things.

i suspect we will find it. we can aim our telescopes to the furthest reaches of the universe and pick up a light from stars so far away, it is beyond our imagination. but we can't as a nation see anymore the creator that made those things. the day the guy that gave our liberty is a smaller and smaller part of our national life. my friends, the one thing that's imperative as this conference goes on through the weekend and that eventually you go home that you not leave your full of despair. i am not full of despair. its 80 year old veterans can stand up to this kind of whatever you want to call it, this mean-spiritedness that now governs us, are we going to hesitate to stand up to its? my friends, there are things we

haven't even tried yet in this battle, and i suspect those things are coming. i suspect that civil disobedience may be necessary someday, not by the left. they have used it all their lives. right? but if no american ever gives up one morning and says, you know what? this far and no further, you are not pushing me anymore, that day will be a new day in america, right? [applause] let me leave you with some words from ronald reagan in a speech delivered in florida, a speech us known for the fact that in that speech he called the soviet union the focus of evil in the modern world. and for that the roof came down on him. evil? that's a value judgment. can't do that. the president was speaking about

communism. apply his words today. reagan said the following, i believe we shall rise to the challenge. i believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages, even now, are being written. i believe is because the source of our strength and the quest for human freedom is not material, but is a spiritual. and because it knows no limitation, it must ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man. for the words of isaiah, he gives power to the faint antivenom who have no mike conway increases strength that they wait upon the lord, shall renew their strength. they shall mount up with wings as eagles. they shall run and not be weary. ladies and gentlemen, i am not weary. you are not weary.

the heartland is not weary. we will restore our constitutional republic. we will throw the bums out and we will reclaim america as a shining city on a hill. god bless you. thank you very much. [applause] >> never give up. ♪ >> thank you, gary. thank you so very, very much. always enjoy what he has to share it each year. ladies and gentlemen, coming out is a former president of concerned women for america, also served as president for the culture campaign. for 10 years she hosted her own radio talk show in chicago and

has won numerous awards including seven silver microphone awards, and angel award, at the 2010 radio personality of the year award at the national religious broadcasters. today, she is a fox news contributor, national columnist, vice president of family pack federal and a host of sandy rios in the morning. would you please welcome now to the podium, sandy rios? [applause] >> thank you. so how are you doing? it's time for your nap, right? so it's my job to wake you up. he is told you everything -- everything there is to know about me so i with you later. american family association is the response of the radio show. that is the original idea in the morning. we are on 190 stations. afa doesn't have a person here

in d.c. i'm kind of a. i represent a fa at a lot of meetings. sometimes people don't know the extent and the reach of afa. we have to and half-million constituents. we have 190 rate rate of stati. we have a journal, and just not that long ago, they had decided we are, in fact, a hate group. they sent a letter. they sent a letter. i don't know if you know this but this is, this is what i want you to know today as i speak to you. this letter went out this week. we understand, sir, we're talking, this is a letter from the southern poverty law center and glaad and the human rights campaign and the naacp of the national council of the rossa, people for the american way, they all joined on this letter. they wrote to every congressperson that could speak at this conference this weekend this is what they said. we understand that you've been invited to speak at the upcoming values voter summit, given the demonizing lies about the lgbt

community spread by the hosts, the family research council, and another major sponsor of the event, the american family association, we urge you not to lend the prestige of your office to the summer. every single congressperson, every senator that you've heard have received this letter and this morning from these groups. it ended by warning us that reince priebus, the rnc chairman, said just last year people an in this country no mar straight or gay deserve dignity and respect. the question for today is whether the party of lincoln stand in 2013 on vilifying the lgbt community. you can help answer that question by saying no to the bigotry and declining the invitation. well, that's where we are and they want to talk to you today a little bit about this. this is a tough topic because it is a dangerous time to be a christian conservative. i'll tell you what i mean. along with a but that is sent

out to all the congressmen they are running ads against randy forbes down in virginia trying to disparage him for being part of the american family association banquet today and for being here. you should see the ad. i wish i had to run for you. there are threats being made. we all know that a little more than a year ago for lloyd corrigan's came into the offices of the family research council because he looked on the southern poverty law center's website, check the list of hate groups, found frc and a couple of others, gone into the building with the idea that he would commit mass murder with a bag full of chick-fil-a sandwiches that he was going to stop in the mouth after he murdered them. we know that the building manager -- he wasn't killed. he paid a tremendous price for the. and do you know that the southern poverty law center has refused to apologize or express regret in any way, and they have refused to move the names of the

family research council, the american family association on their list of hate groups? that's not so shocking because we know there are groups and people on the left that are fringe groups. they don't have much influence and they are free to it, even in this country. let me tell you something, about why this is important. the southern poverty law center thomas sounds great, doesn't? it's had a reputation of the history of helping people in the civil rights movement. they've had a good reputation. that's what people think they do but that's not really what they do. let me give you an explanation. they were founded in 1971 but attorneys morris dees and joseph levine junior. they made their fortune in direct-mail. those of us in the concerned circles know what direct mail was but they're selling the books, doormats and tractor seat cushions. that's how they made their fortune. these became a top fundraiser for mcgovern, kennedy and heart and all their presidential races. allegedly the story goes was

able to get the mailing list from these candidates in order to springboard the fund-raising efforts of the sdlc which were quite successful. the southern poverty law center now has millions of dollars in funding, endowments in excess of $223 million loss of offshore accounts. let me just say that the american institute of philanthropy has given an f. grade to the splc for their respective reserve. i would tell you, you their main business is attacking and sewing conservative organizations. they are out to destroy people and family research council, the american family association, and people like you. hate is a cottage industry for the splc, and let me give you an idea of some the things that they do. they have a hate math and the list on the map at least at this writing they listed 1018 groups. so the interesting thing about

it is, that statistics on crime, the hate crimes between 1986 1986-2011 decreased by 29%. while the number of hate groups the splc identified rose 69%. a little strange. so when law enforcement and others looked into this list they found many of these groups don't even exist. so the splc -- i have to say is not to be trusted, and yet the reason i'm spinning so much time telling about them is that, in fact, they are used as a resource by the department of homeland security, the justice department, the federal bureau of investigation, the pentagon, and thousands of local law enforcement agencies. they conducted trainings all around the country in forming these groups over the haters are. we are on that list. just last night i received a photo in the mail which -- not a good copy but this is what it is. this is a training our military

men. i don't even know what branch of service. it was a candid photo taken by soldiers, and it shows a screenshot that they're doing this training in the military, and the top of it says, american family association. and next to it is fred phelps. does anybody know who fred phelps is? fred phelps aims to be a pastor teaches an absolute, well, i can't think of the right word, disgrace. he says god hates. he's that guy. nothing to do with any of us here or with any of the efforts of the american family association or of frc. yet that is to be put in a vote under american family association is the man who carries the banners, goes and protests at funerals. this is the kind of distortions. it's interesting, if you're in the fbi and july about something, let's say you miss report your time card, you mr. siplin were hugo to corporate do you know you can be

fired for that? and yet the fbi is looking to the southern poverty law center, which is nothing but for verification allies like the one i'm showing you right here for their source on who to go after. it's amazing to me and disgusting and disgraceful. let me just say that at this point the splc, the southern poverty law center, that wonderful civil rights group who cares more about going after and discrediting and suing christians than they did about protecting the rights of african-americans, has absolutely no remorse about what happened at frc. they have refused to apologize. they have no remorse whatsoever. in response they have come after tony perkins. you have probably been tracking that. you hear something sure about that. tony has been valiant in his fight but they're tried to demonize him. everywhere he goes they're going after tony perkins. the president of afa made this

statement about what the splc is doing. he said they have taken snippets of comments of the american family association personnel, ripped them out of the context and distorted the meaning and then use these snippets to paint a false picture of afa. the truth is that the american family association doesn't hate anyone. we love everyone, including homosexuals, enough to tell them the truth about the moral, spiritual and physical dangers of homosexual conduct. and then he goes on to talk about the values that we stand for, the ones that make america great and we stand for christian faith, the moral standards of the 10 commandments, marriage and family, and public policy centered on the and changing standards of scripture. all right, so this is what's happening and that's what it is a dangerous time to be a christian conservative. homosexuality has arguably become the most dangerous issue to discuss publicly, to write about. i happen to know this personally. there are death threats,

unbelievable things happen when you stand a. we know the history of the. i could spend a long time telling you, you about starting with anita bryant. more and more people are scared to talk about this. but we cannot be and we will not be i have to tell you because there are lives at stake. i'll tell you what i mean. i think the american voters and american politicians for that matter are where americans were on the issue of abortion in the 1980s. you may remember that in 1973 when rove v. wade was passed, they were not that many people in favor of abortion. they were like three states that considering legalizing it but people were up all the hype that. later in the '70s and 80s, there was this all out propaganda push to the media. walter cronkite was part of that. he lied about the number of so-called backyard abortions. he fabricated at and he perpetuated the myth. they talked about, they made it sound as if it was just a blob of tissue.

i've been a pro-life -- at pro-life gatherings were some strange would be in the room, and by strange behaving strangely and i've been sitting, i remember sitting right next a person like that at all the national media cameras came to that person and you're focused on that person. they didn't catch any mom and dad in the room, no children. and then the strange person then was plai playing to the camera d doing very strange things. that was the face of the pro-life movement and that's how by the 1980s it was just anathema to be pro-life for a politician. so the republican party decided they needed a big tent because you know, we have to be able to disagree about this. but i would say that christian conservatives continued to talk about what was true. and eventually the facts caught up with what the reality was. with the advent of 40 ultrasounds, the debate over partial-birth abortion, and more recently the whole business

about the horrible abortion clinics. mines have been change. i do know what the percentage is but most of the congressman, republican congressman now serving our pro-life. that's because the american people's minds and hearts have been changed. we i think are now as a public on homosexuality where we were on abortion in the '80s. all we know is what we here in television and the media and hollywood. we see these lossy movies that are airbrushed. we see decorating shows, many of us have gay people in our families. but to have a gay person into them and to think that you understand what's going on is to say i have because it was a doctor. you don't miss it should understand just because, and i think we are fighting a barrage of propaganda, and there is punishment the you dare speak out and say hey, wait a minute, i'm not quite sure that's right.

i don't dare say that. and the justice department, and images without a few months ago to managers saying to them, you must not speak against homosexuality. and by the way, silence is not enough. you must affirm. you can't talk about relationships in terms of man and wife. you have to talk about partner. and by the way, when you're at the watercooler, be sure we are listening to your conversation. you think it's not a hard, difficult time to be a christian conservative at justice? i can tell you that it is. and so then we have our kids, our kids have grown up in an absolute ocean of propaganda on the homosexual issue. started back in the 80s with a video called it's elementary, pure propaganda, the rainbow curriculum that started in new york. it's all our kids have known. now we have all these projects to talk about hate, and matthew shepard story. our kids really are just the

products of the propaganda of the public school system. and that is why when i read the republican so-called autopsy report that came out just last year in which they suggested that we need to alter our viewpoint on this because our kids are not where we are, and we're going to lose them if we don't change our viewpoint or be quiet about it. and i about to say about that. let me just say, this is what we don't know. i'll take a few things that we don't know. the american public does not know. everyone knows about matthew shepard, at least you know the name. matthew shepard was murdered a number of years ago your he was murdered brutally and there's certainly no happiness about that. by the way personal happiness about hate. don't misunderstand or misquote me. we are talking about distortion of information the matthew shepard was a young gay man who was brutally murdered by two other young men. and the story was that they murdered him because he was gay and he became a martyr for the

gay movement. in fact, a hate crimes bill was passed with his name attached to it. bill clinton jumped all over this, and "the new york times" took it and ran with the store and does all kinds of things about matthew shepard. but probably, in fact they created a play called the laramie project that was shown -- it still is in high school. even itching eyes across the country, the story of matthew shepard except, wait a second, it wasn't true. it wasn't true. we know now because a book that just came out last week britain by a gay author, and by the way, this book was featured in the advocate which is arguably the nation's most influential gay publication, featured this book and now we know the story was a complete fraud. matthew shepard was gay. matthew shepard was murdered by these two boys, but it was a drug deal gone bad. matthew shepard according to this author and according, i

remember the police record showed some of this but you never heard about this. not an immediate. that matthew shepard had actually cheated them on a drug deal, at least they thought he had picked they were very met and they actually had sex with them. they were not upset that he was gay. they also are either gay or bisexual. this is part of the story. and so the fairy tale was fun around the tragic life of matthew shepard. and it was made up. it was lies, all lies. does that remind you of any other story that was spun over another issue? roe v. wade. to simply know the story there? i will not go into it because we know now that the story was the foundation for the laws that made abortion legal for all nine months in this country were lies, they were prevarications. so we have the same thing in the story of matthew shepard. i'll tell you what else americans don't know about. when i was debating this on television a lot, when i was at

cw a, the one thing that i would debate that was almost like your member the old movies with dracula and the cross but if you ever want to get into a heated debate about homosexuality, talk about the health risks. and it doesn't take too much effort to find information that is extremely troubling. the cdc just published information recently to say that 94-95% of new hiv cases among boys and young men are linked to homosexual sex. 94-95% of hiv cases. the cdc also goes on to explore the other things that boys are into gay sex do that are health risks. we know that there are many of them, and yet people are not allowed to know about them. the other thing that we don't know about is the fact that

there is an ex-gay movement. september was ex-gay awareness month. did anybody know that in this room? anybody know an ex-gay? the you know what? they're everywhere and the reason you don't hear about them is because they are maligned and threaten. i remember when stephen bennett was speaking for us at cw eight and wanted him to be on the bill o reilly. stephen was trying to tell his story about how he's come out and how he was married and had children and wanted to help his story and honesty bill would not let him talk. would not let him talk. i don't even, i can't even think of an ex-gay person, lesbian or gay that i've seen on television since. have you? there are tons of ex-gays with families of stories that the american people don't even know about that. and yet if we tell the truth about this, we are haters. people that lie, those are the ones that love.

i would like to say that i am kind of optimistic in this regard. i know it's kind of hard to find optimism in all of this. one of the things that compels me, and always has, i just don't think you can really care about people and not tell them the truth. why would we promote homosexuality so thoroughly and not be able to speak about it in public schools when we know that it actually puts these, especially young guys at risk for hiv and all these other diseases went short of their life span? why would we do that? because we want to stop that we are the ones who hate? i don't get that, yet i do because good is called evil and evil is called good. you know this. we are living in an outside world. it is a dangerous time to be a christian conservative. but i think what americans catch up with the facts on the human and the financial cost, because their huge financial costs, they would change their mind about

this. they just don't know. they just don't know. and i say politicians don't know either. at one time i was, when i was living earlier, i will set my first iteration in d.c., and president of cwa, a young woman who was a film maker from new york came and asked if she spent some time with them. she was serving on a conservative. she lived in greenwich village. she was surrounded by the gay community and she went to film because i was an oddity speaking the way i did about this. and she did. she asked me questions. we did the interview. when it was over she said, i want to talk to you. she said, i have always been a defender of the gay community. i care about them. they are my friends. she said, i am seeing so much death and heart ache and disease and sadness in this community that i can hardly bear it. and i don't know, i don't even know what to think about it anymore. these are the stories that you are not hearing. and let me just say to the splc,

the republican leaders who feel that the subject is just too geeky, to some of you who are or maybe even afraid to make a stand on or maybe you feel you're not even certain yourself because you didn't so i washed in the propaganda of the public, let me say to you that we cannot change the truth to appease and when voters. [applause] we cannot, we cannot change the truth to please our children. since when do we look to our children for our moral compass? i don't understand this, except to say that the parents of the '60s and '70s were so woefully lost and confused and uncertain about what they actually believe that they are ill-equipped to teach their children what's true about sexuality. and so we have a generation,

with politicians telling us we should listen to our children. we can't do that. if we love them we must teach them and play them and we cannot change the truth to please our children. [applause] we can't change the truth to stop the criticisms or the attacks from the splc, or any of the other groups on this letter. we can't deny the truth to protect ourselves from financial threats. can we say irs? from intimidation. can we talk about all the things that happen in media the way people are being destroyed or even fear of bodily harm. we cannot do that. millions of gay men and lesbians are caught in a powerful web of deceit that is breaking hearts. gay men and women love each other. they love each other, but what happens is, because the love is misplaced, they find themselves in a series of heartbreaking

situations. it is such heartbreak. have you ever had your heart broken in a romantic relationship? in homosexual, especially with men, there is so much men there's so much heartbreak and rejection. you think you've is worshiped in heterosexual sex. they like young men. you get older and you're a gay man, there's so much rejection, hardly. we can't be silent because we care about those people. it's breaking hearts and costing less. we will continue to offer homosexual men and women hope of redemption and life change, which christian conservatives know all about. we don't say what we say because we are somehow morally superior and we've never struggled with any of these kinds of things. we say this because many of us have had our lives powerfully transformed by the power of jesus christ. and we cannot be silent about that. [applause]

we will continue to speak the truth and offer gay men and women hope of the retention and life change that we have each experienced through the powerful name of jesus christ. thank you so much him and may god have mercy on our country, and bless america. thank you so much. [applause] ♪ >> and now coming to introduce our final speaker for the day is the 2011 conservative activist of the year for the state of wisconsin and the program officer of chapter services at the young america's foundation. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome kate cortes and soon to be released sophia cortez ♪

♪ >> it is my great honor and privilege to introduce our next speaker this evening, senator rick santorum. former candidate for the republican nomination for president of the united states in 2012. he became known as the voice for conservatives whose voice wasn't being represented. serving in the u.s. house of representatives from 1991-1995, and the u.s. senate from 1995-2007, senator santorum thought to maintain fiscal sanity in washington, fighting for a balanced budget and a line-item veto. his record is one of the most conservative senators in pennsylvania's history has prompted a "washington post" reporter to write that quote santorum was a tea party kind of guy before there was a tea party. in office, senator santorum was also offer and floor manager of

the landmark welfare reform act which passed in 1996. and served eight years on the senate armed services committee, among many other accomplishments. bought up all his successes he is most proud of his role as a husband and father. of particular value to myself as an expectant mom, and many others across the country, senator santorum wrote and championed legislation that outlawed the heinous procedure known as partial-birth abortion. he has always been a voice for the voiceless. [applause] >> and reliably defended truth, no matter what the consequences. but before senator santorum takes the stage, please enjoy a two minute trailer of his upcoming film, the christmas candle.

>> might i offer you some assistance speak with what are you headed? >> to london spent it's the christmas season. >> is it really so bad? >> it is, especially this christmas with the minister high and mighty from london. >> welcome to the library. the home of the christmas candle spent forgive my entrance, but what is the christmas candle? >> it's from a bible story. >> i am praying for a husband by easter. >> their hopes -- you may have one candle but i figured everyone wants this christmas spent electricity in the church. spend what is this light? angels and miracles. >> today marks the dawning of a new age.

>> i am not the miracle man that you remember. >> your doubts don't trouble me, reverend. on the contrary they inspire my faith. >> welcome to this very special night. >> some things cannot be restored. spent i think he should stay, just until christmas. >> people need help and you can give it to them. >> you really want to help the people, don't you? >> of course i do. >> i know just the person to give a candle to this year. >> what's happening? >> america is happening. >> it's going to be a great christmas after all.

[applause] >> a true patriot, firm believer in the american dream, and champion of conservative principles, please welcome senator rick santorum. [applause] ♪ >> and thank you. thanks. thank you. thank you. the clock is running. thank you. thank you very much, kate and sophia, for introducing me here. did you like the trailer? [applause] i'm very, very excited in the role that i have and ceo of acolytes used to have the opportunity to bring that kind of quality entertainment into a very, very dark world of movies in america today.

and i just want to remind you, think about this, this is a movie as you can see, a christmas movie, the christmas candle but it's a movie about the miracle that happens at christmas. not a medical candle, yes, a medical candle to what that miracle candle stands were. the real true miracle of christmas. and you think about it though. think of any movie in last 40 years that was the christmas mood that came to the theaters that had anything to do with the birth of jesus, other than a nativity movie. the movie that talks about the real meaning of christmas that lied to the world today. the answer is there isn't any. think about that. christmas after christmas, hollywood gives us feher, that has nothing to do with christmas or if it's a christmas movie, about not what christmas is about. you want to know why hear all these, the polls say this, the

country is moving this way. aristotle said, give me the storytellers and i will control the country in a generation. ladies and gentlemen, the storytellers in america today are telling you a very different story than what was told by your great grandparents and the generations before, it used to be the storytellers in america. but now the storyteller is that screen. those screens that try to move the resume sometimes but sometimes a wonderful movies and suddenly try to shift your point of view on little issues here and there or throw in her to does this for gratuitous fat. why do they do that? because they know that you go see the same movie that everybody else will see because that are poorly, well-made and slip those little things in. in order to move the american public in your direction.

ladies and gentlemen, we have to be storytellers, to get we have to start getting better an understanding with the american public is today and what we need to do as believers in american first principles, as believers in the judeo-christian ethic. we have to do a better job of telling our story. there's a lot of talk in washington, d.c. you probably heard it when you came here. and certainly before. about how conservatives, republicans have to walk away from certain issues if we want to be successful or not. we have to change on some of these issues because the polls suggest that they are not popular anymore. i don't know about you but as a leader i'm not here to follow the polls. i'm here to shape the polls applaud that how do we shape the polls?

obviously i've gotten involved with the stooges in the movies. this movie comes out on novemb november 22. this was a sneak peek little mini movie that will be available at 7:00 tonight if anyone wants to come and see. but that's just one front. peoples that are getting out of politics? y. as a politician involved in hollywood? my response to that is, if liberal actors and producers can get involved in politics, then conservative politicians can get involved in hollywood. and so can you. we are asking for -- a christmas me at christmas time about the real meaning of christmas. what a marvelous thing. but it's not enough. it's not enough just to do the popular culture. we have to do a better job in

politics whether we like it or not. our children an increasingly us are getting our information through these screens, and how do they do -- how did he get that information? how do they get us to change our moral code, to erode what we've been taught? through stories. some would say wait a minute, you are dumbing down, you are not standing up there and giving them the cold, hard facts. well, ma i would remind you that 83% of the bible is a stories. did jesus back away from the truth by telling the story? know, but he communicated to people much more effectively. how many talking points or statistic do you remember from the last heritage paper that you read? how many lines do your member from that movie you saw? stories, the narrative sticks and i might an increasingly

that's how particularly younger americans learn. if you were to turn on c-span2, i was just over at fox doing a show, and they happened to be watching c-span to pick it was almost incredible. one other republican senators was up there and right next to him was a chart. it was a pie chart. right after that was a line graph. i guarantee you, if you waited for the others had their chance to speak, they would have charged up, too, but it would be pictures. they would be telling stories. we tried to tell people why we are right. they tell people that they understand, they relate and they care. now you say, well, that's softening it. know it's not at its meeting people where they are. that's what we have to do. we have to be better at meeting people where they are and telling stories so people can

understand that what we believe

m into something different. we don't explain to the american public what that is. what makes america different? paula of folks, tea party folks

are happy, and i am glad they did and introduce the constitution to the american public discourse. that is a great thing but the constitution without the declaration can be a dangerous document. lots of folks copied the constitution. nobody has caught the our declaration. we are the only country in the history of the world that says we hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are created equal and endowed by their -- with certain inalienable rights. you want to know what makes america different from any other country? because of america, we believe our rights come from god, not from the government. [applause] >> we are descendants of the american revolution but there are people in america who did not want to be those descendantss any more.

they see that line of ancestry as corrupt, bigoted, racist, go on down the list of the left indictments against america. they see a very different revolution that occurred at the same time of the american revolution. that was the french revolution. the french revolution was based on equality, liberty and fraternity, not paternity. they were based on rights coming from the people, your brothers, not from god. there wasn't anti clerical, anti got revolution, they burned churches and killed clergy and establish the secular government that turned into mob rule and then an emperor who conquered europe and institutionalize the french revolutionary secular

rule in europe. that is who they want us to be. you see it. you see it in the thing they do even now. they are subtle. they are little. not even on most people's radar screens but look at obamacare and the conscience mandate. you can say they are trying to provide contraception and -- for people who should have access to them. oh really? is that all they are trying to do? let's take them at their word that is all they are trying to do. okay. what would be the easiest way to make sure everybody who wants those skills can have them for free and have complete access to them, give them away, give them away pharmacies, give them away at supermarkets, give them away at vending machines. of you want them to be ubiquitous simply pay for them and give them away but that is not what they did.

what they did was say to each and every one of you whose conscience is violated by it we will make you do what you -- we tell you to do. they will force you to use your money. they don't subscribe to freedom of religion. the word they use more often now and they do use these words, freedom of worship. to the untrained eye, that sounds like the same thing but they are not. freedom of worship means if you want to go to your church and look the obamacare mandate, if you are in the church you don't have to do this. but once you walk out of the church even if it is next door to a ministry, good bye. you will do what the state tells you to do, not what your conscience does.

this is a descendant of the french revolution. this is the america they want to transform us to. go look at europe which is dying. one in four western european women have children, one of four. every generation europe is cut in half and its population because for every two people they are having one child. this is the future is ac because of course declining population is a good thing. we are not harming mother earth. don't tell me they don't have a religion. it is just not the religion most americans believe in. they are trying to silence you. there secular religion is okay. but yours is not. lady and gentlemen, i am here

because ultimately, ultimately what the state in america is the shoes you are here to defend and make sure they are heard on capitol hill. all of these economic issues are vital. but the foundation of this country is the dignity of human life because there creation of a loving god. if they lose that it is open season on all of us. i tell all of these economic conservatives, you are not thinking through this very clearly. you are not thinking through the consequences. of throwing overboard all of these unpopular social issues. you are not thinking through the consequence of the breakdown of the family. and the tremendous increase in government in every neighborhood and every neighborhood where the family is broken.

government can't be limited, if families are disintegrating. i am here to say thank you. thank you for being here and standing for the core values of our country, for the declaration of independence. for the vision our founders had of strong communities based on strong families, because we didn't need big government. government gets bigger as things around the start to crumble. and we look for government to help. i am not suggesting barack obama wants to see the economy continued to falter but i said from day one his role model as president was franklin delano

roosevelt and remember roosevelt kept getting elected, reelected, reelected in the midst of the depression. in his second term when the to 25%. he kept getting elected because people are afraid. things are unstable people get afraid and the story tellers come out and say you can trust the government, to provide that support for you. ladies and gentlemen, we are engaged in the battle for the heart and soul of america and we need to be better and smarter about how we communicate our message. do not back away one inch from what we believe in. not one inch because all we are doing is standing up for the values that made this the greatest country in the history of the world. why can't we produce great art,

tell stories and communicate with people? why are we always on the defense? look at us in popular culture. conservatives, all we do is curse the darkness and try to protect our families from all the bad stuff. why are we doing that? we have the truth. why are we playing defense. [applause] >> i don't want to hear anybody here apologize for standing up to the truth. apologize for standing up for the dignity of life, the sanctity of marriage, the centrality of the family. the problem is we nominated candidates, far too many who say they believe those things but

they don't talk about them. i went to a breakfast in new york when i was thinking of running for president when it comes to mind every now and then, even today. [applause] >> working with group of people in new york. and i asked me question after question. and the last guy that they brought in. and ask about abortion and marriage and i said wait a minute. did you ask all these other folks the same questions? silence and finally someone said no. why not? and he said you know, because of your record.

the folks that are running for president have the same positions on these issues that i do. everyone has the same position at least they say they do. why are you questioning me? the guy leaned forward and said because we know you mean it. [applause] >> folks. [applause] >> we will start winning

elections when we nominate people that the public sees are authentic. they see that they mean it. when you are electing a leader that is what they are looking for. they are looking for someone they trust, not someone spouting things that they don't believe. don't be afraid to stand up and fight for the court american principles. join me at petrie of voices, november 22nd see the christmas candle, we will take back this country and we will win, thank you and god bless you. ♪ >> these alive pictures outside the capital visitors' center on capitol hill for remarks, which

and remarks from house speaker john boehner and others who will be speaking to the media this morning after meeting the house republican caucus, and retailer of the associated press is reporting this. house republican leaders pledging to push their own bill to open the government and of little financial default. john boehner and other gop leaders have outlined a bill that would keep the government running through january 15th and raise the debt limit to february 7th. the measure is separate from a deal that is emerging from the set. the house bill would suspend tax on medical devices for two years and require incoming verification with subsidies to receive health insurance and the limited health care subsidies for the president, vice president, his cabinet and members of congress. the ap story says the house plans to vote on tuesday. officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the plans. we may hear more about this this

morning as we await remarks from house speaker john boehner outside the capital visitor center. the senate will be gambling in in a couple minutes. we will bring you live coverage on c-span2. the senate expected to continue debate on proceeding to a measure to lift the debt ceiling through december of 2014. the senate will also be recessing for their weekly caucus lunches at 12:30 eastern where we expect the will discuss the current proposal to reopen the federal government and what to do about the debt ceiling. the senate is about to gavel in at 10:00 this morning. there are expected to continue debate on proceeding to a measure proposed to lift the debt ceiling through december of 2014. [inaudible conversations]

>> live on capitol hill as we await remarks from john boehner after a caucus meeting with the republican house members. we expect this to get underway and a couple minutes. unfortunately we will have to leave this at this point. you will be able to see it online at c-span.org. we are going to move over to the u.s. senate as they are about to gavel in and again, senate lawmakers are expected to continue debate on proceeding today measure proposing to lift the debt ceiling through december of 2014. live now to the floor of the u.s. senate on c-span2.

the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. the chaplain retired admiral barry black will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: sovereign god, creator and sustainer of us all, you have been our dwelling place in all generations. thank you for your faithfulness, even while we are unfaithful. lead our lawmakers this day