>> but then this is who we are. of the people we're fighting for that is why we will look get that threat later. we will finish with what we have begun. [applause] . .

we started this. people come up to me on the street and say dave there are all sorts of things and believe me they really do. one thing i hear a lot is parents saying a service thank you for this is done for my child. i want this to become a rite of passage for teenagers in our country. i can tell you this, the next conservative government will guarantee a place in national governor service for every teenager in our country. [applause]

that rule if you put in you should get out more than anyone it should apply to those who want dignity and security in retirement. for years it didn't. there were i think three great wrongs. wrong number one, the credit that was means tested. the more you save the less you got. wrong number two, compulsory annuities. it meant you couldn't spend your own money as you wish. wrong number three when people passed away the pension they saved was taxed at 55% before one to their family. three roles and we are putting each one's right. the means test is going in its place a new single pension of 142 pounds a week. every penny you save during your working life you will keep.

there's compulsory annuities are scrapped giving you complete control of your private pension and as for that 55% tax on your pension you heard it this week, we have cut it to 0%. conservative values in action. [applause] when it comes to our elderly there's perhaps one thing that matters about everything. that is knowing the nhs is there for you. from labor last week we heard the same old rubbish about conservatives and the nhs. they were spreading complete and utter lies and i just think how dare you. it was the labour party who gave us the scandal. elderly people begging for water and dying from neglect. for me this is personal.

i am someone that is relied on the nhs and his family knows how important it is and who knows what it's like when you go to a hospital might after night with a sick child in your arms. they were people who love that child and care for that child just like it was their own and how dare they suggest i would ever put that at risk for other people's children. how dare they rely on natural health service. [applause] [applause] [applause] we in this party i believe he we

can be proud of what he had done. we came in and protected the nhs budget and funded new doctors, 3300 more nurses, a cancer fund to save lives and more people hearing those two magic words, all clear. and think of the amazing things around the corner from the country that unraveled dna we are now mapping for each individual. it's called the genome and i have a model of one of the first ones on my desk from downing street. cracking this code could mean curing rare genetic diseases and saving lives. our nhs is leading the world in the most incredible technology and i understand personally the differences they can make. when you have had a child who is so ill that doctors don't know what he's got her why you would give anything to know an investment we are making and

more parents will have those answers and hopefully the cures that go with it. all of this is only possible because we have managed our economy responsibly. that is why i can tell you this today. we will do it again. the next conservative government will protect the nih president continue to invest because we know this truth. something labour will never understand and we will never forget. you can only have a strong nhs if you have a strong economy. [applause] a britain that everyone is proud to call home. a place where reward follows

effort, where he played and you get out. but it also means a country that is strong in the world and it controls its own destiny. and yes that includes controlling immigration. to me this is all about working on all fronts. getting our own people fit for work fixing welfare so life -- is an option and fixing education so we turn our youn young -- and we need control borders and immigration system that puts the british people first. that is why we have kept immigration from outside of the e.u. and shut down economies that were basically a piece of factors. we have kicked out people who don't belong here and let's hear it for the woman who made it happen our crime busting home secretary. [applause]

but we know the bigger issue today is migration from within the e.u.. immediate access to our welfare system, paying benefits to families back at home, employment agencies signing of people from overseas in recruiting here. numbers that increase faster than we in this country wanted and at a level that was too much for our communities and for our labor markets. all of this has to change and it will be at the very heart of my renegotiation strategy for europe. britain, i know you want this so i will go to brussels. i will not take no for an answer and when it comes to free movement i will get what britain needs. anyone who thinks, anyone who thinks i can't deliver this i would say judge me by my record.

i'm the first prime minister to veto to cut the european budget and i pulled us out of those european bailout schemes as well. around that table in europe i say what i mean and i mean what i say so we are going to go in as a country. we are going to get our powers back. we are going to fight for national interests and we will put it to a referendum. in our out it will be your choice and let the message go out from this hall it's only with the conservatives that you will get that choice. [applause] now of course it's not just the european union that needs sorting out. it is the european court of human rights too. when that charter was written in the aftermath of the second world war, it set out the basic rights that we should respect.

since then, interpretations of that charter have led to other things that are frankly wrong. rulings to stop us deporting suspected terrorists. the suggestion of private human rights convention on the battlefields of the homefront and now they want to give prisons the boat. no, i'm sorry. i just don't agree. our parliament, the british parliament decided they should have that right. this is the country they wrote magna carta, the country that time and again has stood up for human rights liberating europe for fascism are leading the charge against sexual violence. let me put it very clearly, we did not require instruction from judges in strausburger on this issue. [applause] at long last, with a

conservative government after the next election this country will have a new british bill of rights to be the past and our parliament who rooted in our values and as for labor's human rights act we will scrap it once and for all. [applause] [applause] so that is what we offer. a britain everyone is proud to call home and a very clear plan to get there. over the next five years, we will deliver the following things. 3 million apprenticeships, full employment, the most competitive corporate taxes in the g20, eliminating the budget deficit through spending cuts, building 100,000 new starter homes.

letting you pass on your pension tax break and so not a penny of cut. renegotiating the year wrote delivering that referendum scrapping the human rights act, no income tax until you earn 12,500 pounds and no tax rate to tell you earn 50,000 pounds. if you want those things vote for me. if you don't, vote for the other guy. let's be clear, let us be clear, this is a straight fight. it doesn't matter whether parliament is home drawn or quartered, there is only one real choice. the conservatives or labour. meet in downing street or at miliband at downing street. if you vote for him it's really

a vote for or labour and here's a thought for you. [applause] on the seventh of may you could go to bed with nigel -- and wake up with at miliband. [applause] i don't know about you but not one bit of that works for me. here's the big question for that election. on the things that matter in your life, who do you really trust? when it comes to your job do you trust labor who wrecked our economy or the conservatives that made this one of the fastest growing economies in the west? when it comes to britain's future who do you trust, to and labor the party of something for nothing and the banner of human rights are conservatives who believe in something for something and report for hardware? who do you trust, the party of

big debt to big spending big borrowing or our party the first paycheck the first chance, the first hope the one that is delivering more security, more opportunity and more hope, the one that's making this country great again? our party the conservative party. that's the choice of the next election. [applause] we are making britain proud again. look at what we are showing the world. not just a country that's paying down its debts and going from the deepest recession since the war to the fastest growing major advanced economy in the world but at the same time a country that has kept its promises to the poorest in the world, that is leading not following on climate change and this just saved their united kingdom and one of the greatest shows of

democracy the world has ever seen. we are making britain proud again. our exports to china doubling. our car industry booming. our aerospace growing. we are making britain proud again. car engines not imported from germany but built down the road in wolverhampton. new oil rigs not made in china but built here. record numbers of apprenticeships. britain regaining its purpose it's pride in its confidence. we are at the moment with where all the hard work is paying off and the light is coming on after long dark days. go back now or we will lose all we have done. falling back into the shadows when we should be striving into the sun. that's the question next to me. do you want to go back to square one, finish what we have begun? i don't claim to be a perfect

leader but i am your servant. standing here wanting to make our country so much better for your children and mine. i love this country and i will do my duty by it. we have got the track record, the right team to take his plan for our country and turn it into a plan for you. i think of the millions of people going out to work wiping the ice off the windshield on a winter's morning raising their children as well as they can working as hard as they can doing it for a better future to make a good life for them and their families. that's the british spirit. it's there in our ordinary days as well as their finest hours. this is a great country and we can be greater still but whose history is not written for us but bias in the decisions we make today. that starts next me. so britain what's it going to

be? i saying let's not go back to square one. let us finish what we have begun. let us build a britain we are proud to call home for you, for your family, for everyone. [applause] [applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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♪ [applause] ♪ british foreign secretary philip hammond spoke at the conservative party conference where he laid out the priorities of the uk's foreign policy. his remarks are 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you kevin and it is a huge privilege to address this conference as foreign secretary of our united kingdom. [applause]

and to be frank with you with everything else that's going on at the moment the foreign office is relieved not to have to be heading scotland to its list of responsibilities. [laughter] let me start by introducing my fantastic foreign office minister obtained david livingstone hugos what tobias ellwood and the house of lords livingston. our indispensable pps david collins outlook show burke and david. please give them a big round of applause. [applause] i can tell you that i have inherited a foreign office in great shape with new missions flying the union flag across the world. ministers visiting countries from australia to somalia that labour had forgotten even existed, the language school that labor asked reopened and

their invidious culture of mediocrity replaced once again by diplomatic excellence. [applause] all of that is due in no small part to the commitment and the determination of the man who will surely go down as one of the truly great british foreign secretary's, william hague. [applause] people rightly credit william with many exceptional qualities and i have to say looking back over what has happened this summer i'm beginning to wonder if he's clairvoyant too. [laughter] he is a very hard act to follow and i have to tell you i take

some small comfort in the knowledge that there's just one thing i have that william doesn't. [laughter] [applause] he has left our country a fantastic legacy and i am determined that we will build on it. i have told her diplomats that it might be called the foreign office but i want them to think of it is the british office because their job is too bad for britain protecting our security, standing up for our values and pursuing our prosperity, playing a vital role in the conservative plan to secure a better future for britain. by the way, by the way that includes securing the future of britain's overseas territories. because we are the conservative government there will be no sellouts, no backroom deals, no betrayals of gibraltar are at the falkland islands.

[applause] we will defend their right to remain proudly british work as long as that is their wish. in this uncertain and dangerous world conservatives never forget that the first duty of government is securing our nation from external threats. over the course of this summer we have seen our national security challenge on multiple fronts. russia's aggression in ukraine, the barbarity of the council's in syria conflict in gaza and ebola in west africa. we conservatives know that we cannot simply wish these problems away. we cannot turn our backs on the world. when disaster strikes we have the compassion to act.

when our values are threatened we have the confidence to stand firm and when the evil rears its head, we have the courage to confront it. [applause] nowhere is that courage going to be needed more than in confronting the isil with their twisted ideology, their brutal regime of beheadings, rapes and murders they are the antithesis of everything we stand for and left unchecked they will transform swathes of territory into a haven for international terrorism, a threat to millions of people in the middle east, muslims, christians yazidis alike as well as our own citizens at home and abroad. an affront to humanity that we must defeat. now britain is one of the world's major military powers and we could not in all

conscience stand by as american french jordanian and emirate partners confronting this menace while the look the other way. it is right that britain shoulders its share of the burden and a great coalition of nations that has come together to defeat the menace of isil and we should be proud that we are doing so. [applause] so let us salute the bravery of our armed forces who once again are putting themselves in harm's way in the richest inches to the nation. [applause] of course it's about more than our strengths. our strategy is comprehensive. political reform and iraq humanitarian aid for the

displaced weapons for the kurds in a concerted international effort to cut off isil's funding disrupt the flow of foreign fighters and deal with jihadis attempting to return to the shores. isil can and must be driven out of iraq and syria we will continue to support the moderate opposition who are bravely taking on isil as well as a assad but they cannot win this fight alone. we are backing the coalitions in syria clear that the way to peace in syria lies in the defeat of isil, the removal of assad and the negotiated political settlement. to those who say that to defeat isil we must do a deal with assad i say you are mistaken. it was assad's brutal war against his own people that allowed the isil to take root. i thought is the problem and he cannot be part of the solution. [applause]

a few hundred miles to the north we face a very different challenge. for decades britain stood firm in the face of the nuclear threat from the soviet union, shoulder-to-shoulder with their american allies until we achieve the triumph of freedom over communism. in a the 25 year since that victory we have extended the hand of friendship to russia offering investment, trade and partnership. by his illegal annexation of crimea by supplying the missile that murdered 298 innocent people on flight mh-17 and by sending russian troops into eastern ukraine putin has torn up the rulebook and chosen the path of confrontation. we should be proud that britain has led the way in securing

far-reaching sanctions sending the message that russia's illegal behavior will not be tolerated. [applause] >> and neither will we allow our nato allies in eastern europe to be bullied. let me remind mr. putin the threat to any nato member would get a response from us all. that's why we send our jets to the baltic earlier this year and we will do it again if we need to. [applause] because nato and its principle of collective self-defense protected us through the dark years of the cold war and it will remain the cornerstone of our defense policy today and going forward. [applause] serious though these challenges

are an rough as it is that our national security be the number one priority of our foreign policy must also support our long-term economic plan and protect our national sovereignty. under this government are in the seas around the world have a clear mission to break open markets, attract new investment, boosts british business and create british jobs and it's working. our worldwide exports are a 20% since 2009. but nowhere is the need to secure our future prosperity and to protect our national sovereignty clearer than in negotiating a new settlement for britain in europe. [applause] nearly four decades ago like millions of others and britain i cast my vote, my first ever vote in favor of our membership of the common market.

like millions of others in britain i have watched aghast as that common market has morphed into an institution with the aspirations pushing ever closer union and posing red tape and regulation, who bring powers that properly belong to the nationstates. that is not what i voted for in 1975. it's not what the british people signed up to and it's not the way to build a dynamic and competitive europe of corporate and nation-states. [applause] so reformed there must be. i will be perfectly frank with you, i've twice been prepared prepared for the possibility that britain would be alone in arguing for it. margaret thatcher used to say there's no shame in being in a

minority of one so long as you are right and all the others are wrong. [laughter] [applause] but the fact is we are not on our own anymore. slowly but surely the others are coming around to the need for change. to those who say it will never happen, i say end of this government it has already started. after 13 years of labor surrendering sovereignty to brussels signing away power after power and treaty after treaty casually giving up 7 billion pounds of rebates so hard won by mrs. thatcher, for the first time by standing firm in making the arguments we have started to reverse that trend. david cameron secured their first ever caught in the e.u. budget. bailouts deliver the biggest biggest reform effort ever but common fisheries policy

introduced a referendum against war powers going to brussels veto the creation of an e.u. military headquarters and we have done all that in coalition with the most brussels loving bunch of euro files you could ever wish to meet. [applause] just think what a proper conservative government could do. [applause] as i have visited over the last 10 weeks e.u. capitals i met my european counterparts it's clear that the penny is finally dropping. reform has to happen because the current system quite simply has run out of road. they know that the e.u. will be weaker without britain and so they understand reform must address the british demand set

out in the prime prime minister's speech because our referendum pledge means that reform has to be substantial. it has to be a reversible and it has to satisfy the british people. my political priority between now and next to me is to lay the groundwork to marshal our forces and build up our battle plan to persuade cajoling convince every single e.u. member of the need for change and change the works for britain so when we wake up with a conservative government we may already be in pole position to get the best deal for britain in europe. our goal is clear, a europe where powers flow from brussels that to nationstates, not the other way round. a europe of free movement, not free lending. a europe of cooperating nations, not a european -- a europe of open markets and free trade agreements with the world and beyond, a europe that cannot

compete the best in the world without red tape and regulation weighing it down. most of all, most of all a europe on which the british people have had their say. [applause] because when it comes to the election next year there will be a clear choice. and in our referendum in 2017 with david cameron or no say under david miller -- ed miliband. only we the conservatives will deliver that referenda, no gifts, no buts. [applause] so whether it's european bureaucracy, russian aggression, islamist extremism or syrian civil war we have a plan in place to deal with the threats to our competitive needs our

security and our sovereignty today and to build a better future for britain tomorrow. after four years of conservative government we have a success story which we should tell with pride. britain is once again an outward looking self-confident nation building economic success at home and walking tall abroad. with their partners around the world we will defeat the threat from isil. we will stand up for democracy in ukraine and is a conservative government we will deliver that referendum. so when it comes to may the seventh next year the choice will be stark. ed miliband and labor offering a bigger deficit the weaker economy, shrinking international presence and no say on europe where david cameron and the conservatives delivering growth, jobs, stronger britain and that

vital and out of referenda. conference, our masters -- our message is clear. britain cannot afford five more minutes yet alone five more years of labor. only the conservatives will secure a better future for britain. thank you. [applause] [applause]

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[applause] ♪ >> got it thank thank you. alessa members of my panel to come on out on stage and join me here where your name card is. i'm going to introduce them individually when i get to each of them one at a time. the institution of marriage has been under stress for at least two generations now. the sexual revolution took sexual relations out of the sacred precincts of the marital bedroom and into any bedroom and increasingly into the public square itself. no-fault divorce undermines the permanence of the marriage bond. cohabitation has increasingly

become a substitute for marria marriage. but the severing of the once powerful bonds which linked sex and procreation to marriage has now reached its culmination in the effort to change the very definition of marriage itself. the idea that marriage is intrinsically by definition the union of one man and one woman which would have been taken for granted for almost the entire history of western civilization has gone from being universally self-evident to being in the eyes of many including some federal judges, orderly and comprehensible. last year the u.s. supreme court issued a ruling in the windsor case striking down the federal definition of marriage as a union of a man and a woman for all purposes under federal law according to the defense of marriage act.

but they dodged the issue of state definitions of marriage by not issuing a ruling on the merits regarding california's prop aid. subsequent challenges state-by-state across the country however have used the rationale of the windsor ruling to challenge the laws and in many cases constitutional amendments adopted by the people. each of our guest today offers a unique perspective on the irreplaceable institution of marriage. and i'm going to turn first to eric teetsel. eric teetsel is executive director of the manhattan declaration, i call of christian conscience on life marriage and religious liberty founded by chuck colson in 2009. he works to make sure that the declaration served not only as a manifesto by dave movement which continues to inform the public

about these issues. eric attended wheaton college and worked at colorado christian university before coming to washington to serve with the values and capitalism project at the american enterprise institute. last year eric was one of several young leaders profiled in "the new york times" under the headline young opponents of marriage undaunted by battle ahead. please welcome eric teetsel. [applause] gonick i'm going to start with a broad question for you. why does marriage matter to society? >> i was thinking it was five years ago this sunday that chuck colson passed robby george with offering the first draft of what came to be known as the manhattan declaration as you set a manifesto but a wake-up call to be the church of the most important issues of our time life, marriage and religious

liberty. i thought i would read just a bit of what manhattan has to say about this question. it describes marriage as nothing less than the crowning achievement of god's creation. marriage is the first institution of human society. indeed it is institution on which all other human institutions have their very foundation and fast human experience confirms that marriage is both the original and most important institution versus the health and welfare and education of all persons in a society. marriage matters because it's good and it plays a central role in god's story for the world in which we live. that fact i think is underscored by what for me as one of the cruelest realities about scriptures testimony when it comes to the question of marriage. the bible begins with a wedding

in a garden between adam and eve and it ends with a wedding in a city between christ and his church. [applause] >> the millennial generation has seen high levels of divorce in their parents generation yet graduating high school students according to surveys continue to tell us overwhelmingly that they desired marriage to be part of their future. in spite of the poor modeling they may have seen of marriage in many cases what does this desire tell us about the powerful good that marriage can create? >> well it tells us something. i suppose it tells us that things could be worse. there's something deep inside even this generation that has no idea what marriages. it has no idea why marriage matters and has no understanding

of why the biblical meaning of marriage should have anything to do with our laws on marriage yet they still have the sense that i should get married and that's a good thing. unfortunately they are not getting married. i think the statistic that came out from pew is just under half of young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 are married. that's a fourfold increase from what it was in 1960. my parents generation to generation before them has exactly left a legacy of marriage for my generation to understand and grab onto and that's why i'm happy to be part of a movement that's trying to rebuild the foundations. a same-sex marriage movement is only the latest of them and what has been a decades long breakdown in our understanding of the role of marriage family and society. we have to understand our system

much broader project. >> great and tell people the web site for the manhattan declaration. >> thanks. the manhattan declaration can be found on line at www.manhattan organization.oregon all over facebook and twitter. read it and cited and share with others. >> is something that everyone they can sign and the more signatures that are on it the better it is the more powerful a statement it makes to our society so i encourage you to go to that site and sign the manhattan declaration. let me move on to our next guest who is a member of congress representative vicki hartzler and her second term representing missouri's fourth congressional district here in washington. she previously served three terms as a member of the missouri house of representatives. she and her husband lowell on a company that sells farm equipment and lived with her daughter on a working farm in cass county missouri.

i just want to mention personally i still remember so well the first time i met mrs. hartzler was here at the values voter summit and it was before she had been elected to congress. she was selling or promoting a book she had written on christians running for office called running gods way or something like that. so it's really great to see someone like this having put those principles into action and being elected to congress. [applause] give her a hand, yeah. now the key question, what are the key questions about marriage is what is marriage but a second quake -- key question is who decides? missouri is one of the 30 states that amended its constitution to define marriage as a union of man man -- one man 11.

you are very active in a campaign back in 2004 at the leave. tell us what you thought it was important for the people of your state to act in defense of marriage. >> that was right after the 2004 supreme court decision in massachusetts where a few unelected unaccountable judges overrule the will of the people in massachusetts it and said we know better what the definition of marriage is and we don't care what you think about it. missouri's legislature as well as many state assemblies across our country were very proactive in putting a measure on our ballot for the voters to decide what we wanted in marriage. i was asked to be the spokesperson for that campaign and ended up helping with that. it was quite an experience because our election was in august. i believe there were 10 other states that have their election in november so missouri became the focal point for the entire national debate at that time. even though we were outspent

22-1 and a professional organizations who are opposed to the amendment flooded our states with professional offices and staff and we were a grassroots volunteer organization our voters, are citizens came out that november and we spoke loud and clear with 71% of the vote that we think it's wise public policy for marriage to be between a man that in a moment. [applause] >> now in the last year we have seen a number of federal judges vote to strike down the state definitions of marriage. this does has raised concerns for a lot of us about the balance of power both between the states and the federal government and between the three branches of government. as a legislator, as a member of the legislative branch what do you think about the role these judges are playing in this

question. are they taking authority that doesn't belong to them? >> according to the constitution a judicial branch is supposed to interpret law and enforce law. it's up to the legislative branch to legislate laws and is supposed to execute laws. we need to get back to all of that. certainly in the case of people across this country speaking like missouri has the people have the right to determine these policies. that's why we acted 10 years ago and put it in our constitution. that's where it needs to stay with the power to the people not some unelected judges somewhere. missouri's laws being challenged as has been all across this country and we had our first hearing yesterday where that was heard in court. i was praying and hoping that missouri's judges would rule like judge spelman in louisiana who said social decision should be decided by the people and not

by judges so we are hoping for that. [applause] >> as i mentioned in the introduction last year the u.s. supreme court struck down a portion of the federal defense of marriage act which had required the federal government to recognize only the union of one man and one woman as marriage. the obama administration since then has been very aggressive in pushing this recognition, the broadest possible interpretation of that ruling but several pieces of legislation have been introduced into congress seeking to address some of the concerns people have about religious liberty and so forth. can you talk a little bit about those? >> there are a couple that i am cosponsoring that i think are important. the first is the marriage and religious liberty act and hopes to address on the concerns of

the federal government coming after private businesses or nonprofit organizations and withholding federal support for them. that law specifically says the federal government cannot in any way harm an individual or business or an entity because they uphold marriage. that means they can't withhold loans or grants or contracts or other federal programs that perhaps the business would be interested in and then there's another bill that deals with foster care in the adoption system. i've worked on adoption issues for many years and am a strong supporter of that. we have 400,000 children right now in foster care with 25% which means around 100,000 available for adoption and wanting a home yet we have the federal government going after some private foster care and adoption agencies and withholding your tax exempt status or contracts with the government because they simply believe those children deserve

to be with their father and a mother. that is wrong so we have introduced the child welfare provider inclusion of acts which would prevent the federal government from being able to do that and make sure that every agency that wants to see these kids get into homes have that opportunity without federal interference. [applause] >> now our next guest, erin and melissa klein are not like her other panelists. they are not elected officials, not theologians, not policy analysts. they are or were the owners of the bakery called sweet cakes by melissa. [applause] they are at a no you.

[laughter] i did some research and preparing for this. i went on the nexis news search engine. i put in sweet cakes by melissa and searched for the last two years. the very first article that came up was two years ago the oregonian in portland oregon set this in their travel section. they said farther east on main in oregon a small strip mall is home to sweet cakes by melissa known for its complex cakes. melissa's has filled cupcakes in flavors like red velvet and cinnamon, chocolate ribbon. in adults, you have earned it. now unfortunately the next 89 news articles about them were not quite as -- because when they return to the news it was because they had joined the growing number of christian business people who have faced the choice of sacrificing needed their conscience or their business in the face of demands

by activists and now by the state of oregon that they participate in the celebration of a same-sex wedding by making a customized cake for that event. now before we talk about this case that you are involved in, one or both of you tell us about the process of designing and producing a wedding cake, the process that you use. this is not just a matter of pulling a cake off of a shelf, is that? >> no it's definitely not. with our business everything we do is from scratch and it's more than just throwing ingredients into the offering and during during frosting on it. for a wedding we sit down with the bride and groom were sometimes the mother and the bride and for me personally when i would sit down with them, i

just would want to know everything about her wedding. i would want to know about her flowers, her dress, the centerpieces, her colors, the way her hair was going to be. i wanted to see her ring. i even would talk about where are you going on your honeymoon. i would use all this information to help me design the perfect cake that reflected them. i'm sorry. [applause] sorry, i don't mean to get emotional. it just really touches my heart. but anyways i would sit with them and i would sit and sketched designs and sometimes it would take several different

designs until we got the perfect cake that match to them. sometimes it would take two hours of sitting in a cake tasting. if they chose me to do their cake -- i'm sorry. [applause] i would just feel so honored to be able to be a part of such an amazing special day. sorry. >> aaron is there anything you would like to add? >> before we opened our storefront we had our pastor and church avonlea dedicated the shop. the work i was done, everything was to the glory of god.

[applause] i can't say it more forcefully. really what it came down to what she has a god-given talent to create a work of art to celebrate a union between two people and to use that in a manner that would be in the face of what the bible says it should be. i just couldn't in good conscience agree to do it. >> now, thank you. give him a hand for that. [applause] now i do have to tell you that unfortunately there is ongoing litigation over this situation so that clients are somewhat limited in what they can say about the actual incident, the actual interaction with the people who complained about them. you were not only attacked on

social media and in the press but eventually legal action was taking against you. can you tell us a little bit about what they did and what the state has done and what you were forced to do with the results? >> up to this point the girls filed a the complaint with the bureau of labor in industry. that has now gone into the process where they have found evidence that suggests we discriminated and we are like you say facing litigation at this point. should be the next couple of weeks as far as the court day. in the end the boycotting, the harassment and quite frankly they harass the other wedding vendors that we did business with. it cut off our referral system. we had to shut the shop down. melissa now does limited cakes out of our house. we are facing an excess of

$150,000 in damages for those just for simply standing by my first amendment rights. on top of that the state has told me that merely speaking about this could be construed as advertising that i would discriminate and could be fined additionally for that. >> talk to us about your conscience. you made reference to your conscience. how does that make you feel to be basically told you have to violate their consciences? >> for me personally to be told they are going to force me to convey a message other than what i want to convey it flies in the face of the constitution. ..

>> >> this is not really about sexual orientation per save you have served customers.

>> she came and paid for aicher mother's wedding cake it is not about sexual orientation is about marriage and the yvette. >> let's give them a big hand. [applause] [applause] [applause]

>> is a tough act to follow. [laughter] dr. johnson the president and ceo of the national religious broadcasters from washington d.c. area to promote the excellence and to defend free speech. previously serving as president in dallas texas in addition to his work he is also pastor of churches in texas and colorado. please welcome dr. jerry

johnson. [applause] now doctor johnson since you are involved with the media and broadcasting what role has media played in the campaign? >> it you should remember in the inauguration speech that was huge. somewhere along in his presidency he switched from gay and straight to the lgbt at a north anybody has marked vas which the strait is not even in that mix.

but now there are 28 sexual different identities and orientations. and to keep repeating this writing into the scripps. and it is affecting us. we very careful how you talk about these issues. >> what role will the but we could do a better job than we have been doing. to talk about first amendment use it or lose it if you were on radio or television if you have of log or broadcast talk about this.

talk about actual and traditional and historic manor -- marriage is very important. talking about the fact in canada servants are turn did on wednesday for editing. we will have a canadian here to talk about a major broadcast then they run the last week sermon. this is right next door we cannot live under sharia law. we have freedom of speech and to exercise. [applause] >> manchin to as having a

career in hiring education education, some of last question is what we need to do to educate the under generation about the importance of marriage in the public square? we have to challenge these assumptions. one of the main arguments is don't be on the wrong set of history. take that for a moment they're not talking about history but what the what the future to be. but history is on our side. is not the cultural norm but

the judeo-christian butted romans he did not close the leviticus passage. it is true it is their. this choice is a rejection of the creator of the created order and a natural order natural marriages genesis one. male and female we talk about thousands of years of judeo-christian arrogance. then those cultures to a chosen the path in the past have not been neglected. so we have to be clear and practical going forward. and above all things we do

have to talk about it and talk about protecting marriage. >> i could not say it better myself. please give a hand to our panel. [applause] ♪ that was terrific. thanks so much as my honor to introduce to you one of the most courageous women i have never heard of or known for our cause. and i love that it is hilarious how liberals clot and his white count dracula when you drop the name sarah

palin. [cheers and applause] would you like to meet sarah pale and? before she comes out as find out where she has been up to. >> across the country every day americans are standing up and speaking about and there is more than enough reason in america. >> beefy family-oriented. >> like everyone of us. >> she is in our hearts. >> strength in america is good small towns. >> i foresee a greater awakening of america.

we have to make sure that is why it is so a important to getting gauge. -- a engaged. >> she has said all the courage and strength. >> we need women's. >> she encourages me to fight. >> she is of mom of a grisly. >> hopefully i can inspire others to affect positive change. >> so american needs to be empowered.

we will do this together. my good friend the original mama a grisly. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪ >> thank you very much it truly is an honor to be here with all of you thank you for your boldness and courage and looking at what the media does to you and to us so often america needs

your voice so to empower and inspire us all. to what to take the time to thank you truly it is an honor to be here. to be with americans who give more who would do all those things behind the scenes that make america so exceptional. you are to america media loves to hate. but maybe some of what they had just understood is my sisters and brothers when you suffer trials considering what they don't buy new this is the most joyful mood in washington. [cheers and applause] with so much going on in the

world and the country time is short for us to do all that to affect positive change but are you ready to fight back and get back on the right track? it is time. [applause] up and charge. with the president and the agenda and the lap dogs in the media. it is time to expand the reins to inspire others. it is time to stand and fight like your country depends on its because it does. it is time to rejoice. it will the end of the error. the obama error. [cheers and applause]

we will that be changing stuff that did not work. not even of a smidgen. so all that jury weaver stuff. to be called end you can keep your health care. but come to find out we are so over it. the false promises, the utopia, it is only us if we could only interested in but they we're doing. we're over that and we're ready to get back to work and core values that made america great.

so the one thing that we must do to save our country we did not need the fundamental transformation of america. we need fundamental restoration of all that is good and strong and free that made america so greet. and we must be united. through our values and courage and fortitude and generosity, hard work. that is what could pull us together all americans rich and poor every background it is time to end the politics of division and then the tactic of distraction? so united we will stand. because here is what they have done.

with this orwellian command-and-control remember the man? to play the politics of personal destruction of the one that is deemed a threat with power. knowing that they cannot keep up with all of them. into the irs corruption to bet gauzy aaron the bailout's. -- ben gauzy and the bailout's. the bob? for goodness sakes.

the honored military talk about national security issues. on behalf of all americans who do support you air and are you in respect you to your commander in chief, we will salute him. [applause] [laughter] it is time to end the politics of division idolized anyone to be afraid or ashamed of the core values that we're here is celebrating. what are they? truth in value.

i know about all that difference and the allies that they can tell. might families saw something in the paper had gershwin dash we never would have known if we had not read it in the paper. i've learned the other day i am in the middle of another divorce. [laughter] or a picture of the liberal bloc that is where it started a picture of me after a workout. i rarely wear a ring especially up in alaska. tickets and the way so we

just don't. but by the way what the heck business is it a of the liberal media anyway? where they sell when tolerant? who cares? [applause] by the way he sent his best he is not able to be here because it is louis season trudy and he had one more flight i am helping him. and i looked at the headlines that day. so i predict what he will say. so this time after reading the headlines about the divorce he says is that the

same what they wrote the last time still the $20 million divorce? we'll write me a check. [laughter] that what difference does it make this point. sure enough we will expect it. you are their we have each other's back. here is what happens the allies that they tell about you to be called the haters and the bigots with that disgusting charges of racist? i am one of the most lenders groups of america today. to wear your scored with pride with the liberal media today.

all you can do is change the subject. so we went. [applause] so with the race card how much longer? it is not even smart when rewinds to live within our means and not tax us or mortgage our future. because of that we're racist? we've tried to put that on alan west that dr. ben carson said? and my husband? those truly prejudice folks folks, they scream racism

just to end the debate. don't retreat to the. truth dido was an injured species around pennsylvania avenue anyway. but he just cannot stop telling lies. they just said that the islamic state is not islamic. who is that news to? the islamic state to call themselves physically -- the islamic state. if it was not islamic then why does it have such appeal around the muslim world? jonah goldberg asked then if they aren't then why don't we imprison them? just like it is coming

terrorist attacks know only caused by huge tube. americans are speaking of the truth in fact, we prayed for the truth and deception is the enemy of democracy. by the way the question is do we survive the people that voted for him the second time? [laughter] is the truth will set us free. and freedom is another value. under the three strikes obama potosi read we are shackled with death and corruption the irs the most powerful agency. the independent teapartier

patriots are now the enemy of the people and the irs needed to know the contents of the pro-life groups prayers'? and it would deduct two years of audits on some of the most loving and giving families in america. the one population the most enduring to harass and intimidate? they give their homes to the downtrodden and helpless and orphans? how about that irs. how about this irs you target americans rights back at you we can argue. is a time to abolish the irs? [cheers and applause]

what do you expect though who decides who has religious freedom and who doesn't. we give our sons and daughters for us to go fight for it. freedom if you love it for those who have observed stand-up so we cannot honor you. think you've united states military. we love you. [cheers and applause]

that gives me goose bumps. liberty and justice for all. you have security for us enduing courage america's finest to hang in there to keep fighting for it even those that we disagree with. with the need to be free. he created as with that drive to be free. we know it. we live it we are the liberty movement. with the representation of the military in the room you have secured the movement to think and to do you have to go get them.

and you need freedom to do that. we'll know in a free and open debate common-sense ethical fair ideas win. you value life and equal opportunity. and then you know, that they cannot argue against those things. this is a time for courage. tutor about abraham. those in with the children's lives on though wine.

she was forced to give birth in jeans and had the testimony and it is her strength and she is not hesitant to share that with the world. and to take the time to honor this weekend. [applause] also we have our fellow american taxpayers. this is the two-year anniversary to be imprisoned just because he is christian. he will not renounce its either. even from his prison cell

and that we agree we will not take for granted what we have here with freedom. this is seen throughout the world facing persecution and driven from their homes are sold into slavery or marked for death. yet they stand firm and the least that we can do is stand with them with courage. so the accuser would say that the basic core values divide. is it true with liberty and opportunity and courage only

with that leadership are they considered something to divide. something to claim the values and a live them we are the movement that says yes. great values and approaching elections we will support great leaders. to make this country free again to see a crony capitalism so that we may have peace and the value? and babies as punishment? id with that misstep world

why would you want to get rid of them? [cheers and applause] what about those who are not afraid of truce? those worthy of a great nation. ameritech needs your energy and confidence and voice to expand the ranks. but as a messenger of a vibrant life with ever founders values they are america's values. ended is a message that america wants to hear and it needs to hear is a fundamentally restore america to be in the american dream the message

resonates with that band of brothers dumping it tea in boston harbor we can be as optimistic as they were. of our one nation so stand up the best is yet to come. thank-you for what you do am put up with. god bless you and god bless the united states of america. thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ ♪

>> thank-you governor. that was a great speech governor pay when it is a good thing she is on our side. [laughter] cornyn speaker is an international columnist author of several best selling books including how liberals are waging war against christians and his brand new book we will be doing a book signing right after is jesus on trial. we're delighted to have him back so please join me to welcome to our stage david limbaugh. [cheers and applause] ♪

>> thanks very much sarah palin who i absolutely adore said one minute ago how long do you think the democrats will play the race card? i know how considerate she is. that is a segue into my speech about the eternal issues. [laughter] there will bid no cessation of playing their race card. i have to apologize to shamelessly promoting my book so please allow me to discuss this book with you and i will try not to be too self congratulatory. why did i write this book? i became of will be for 20

years ago. not studying it for this book has some people mistakenly understood but i had dinner with a couple of grade school friends and both their skeptics. i understand that any rational person could be a christian. into zero days be prepared with respect. but i did not get there so i filed that for future reference then within three-- rectory invited me to write a book on this very subject that i chose to interpret. then i thought she is not a trained theologian then it occurred to me that is my

platform. so that trains theologian could relate to them so i decided to do it. this book is different than other christian apologetics books but i do that comprehensively but also go with my own spiritual journey to establish a foundation however major transformation from nonbeliever to believe her and a structure the book in a way that reflects my personal journey. a lot of what got me over the intellectual obstacles was studying the bible

itself and theology. parts of the message or purpose to the skeptics is take a look. the bible claims and to have the conversion atilt believe the myth makers. given the chance to think it is the word of god but you might find out if it is. i had a friend who is attending governor brought his law school classmates home during the christmas break every year and one year he brought steve springer years sitting around a fireplace talking about christianity ious believed in god but not necessarily that jesus was divine.

but instead of getting defensive, went to the guest bedroom, got his bible and showed me how the passages of the old testament were interconnected with the new and old and how integrated it was bad i'm in there is now have ignorant i was but i did not know it was that thematically integrated but later that would come to fruition quite a few years later when i became a believer that i told him when he came back to visit. deal have any idea the impact you had on me spiritually? i took the bible back to him and he was emotional.

fellow christians when you evangelized don't let your ego get into it zero or assume you have to see immediate results are you are failing because you don't know the seeds that you can plant. [applause] and ultimately with that intellectual belief i have read all the books some before i became a believer in some after so i cannot tell you what happened first but the tipping point came at a christian businessman prayer group when there was a celebrity speaker speaking in after he spoke we were asked to sign a card if we wanted to learn more about jesus christ. someone who led me? i signed it and within a few

days we were meeting in three of my friends and peter was one of them i think he was already a believer but they took us through a book called first steps introduced as to the foreign fought battle scripture is godfrey. when i found out be profit mica predicted the town jesus would be born and i saw in the prophecies of isaiah and psalms about the specifics of his life on earth and death and resurrection to the point he will be punished along with the transgressors, i saw that and said there is no way i can honestly deny that this is the inspired work of

the word of god. i come up with excuses like this was not written by a of a guide named isaiah. they say he could not have written it. so with puts a hole in their claims. the bottom line i knew he had because god inspired the work. i space held in my hands the inspired word i started to read the bible voraciously and could not get my hands on it fast enough. adjusting case other old testament prophecies not just daniel but the predictions of the empire's and how it will rapidly takeover the whole world and will split into four

generals. it is truly bone chilling remarkable when you read it. but prediction of 300 years before, by name this king who had a pay again offering on the altar call a but then king cyrus natalie predicted by name but corroboration to have a practice to do duse's. but babylonians with that corporation to return to their homeland to rebuild their own pay again places of worship and that is so cooperative five of that.

in the book did not just talk about christian apologetics of archaeology or the transmission of the bible but i go into scripture to talk about the teachings. because i am so fascinated by it take him at the word with the power of conversion to introduce non beavers to powerful theology that is taught counter intuitive lee. ended is paradoxical. then to find out there's so much truth i think god did that on purpose to disclose that a nightclub. it sticks with us. but i included a couple of chapters of inspirational stories iran across after

becoming a believer and other theological points that blew me away. two chapters told me it might ton gephardt of a skeptic. one of these odd moments is meaningful they say ironside was a preacher and he wrote a book the deal included this story. to preach at a salvation army gatherings often. i'll with stand at the back of the room but why is he back there? we have to find out a movie was sold one day he was forced to sit in the front row and virucide quarter demand the end of the meeting and said what is your story?

he said i used to be an atheist i am not any more but i am not a christian. what caused you to be a nonbeliever to a believer? he said that man over there that was a former alcoholic and he was transformed by placing his trust in jesus christ. that had a significant impact on him. why can't you take the extent to become a christian? he said the new testament does not do much for me away read asiatics -- isaiah i wish i could so i said my moment. would you let me read the chapter out of isaiah and you tell me? he said i don't know anything. let me duet.

isaiah 53 now remember, what ironside is doing to the nonbeliever, who has believed the message and has the charm of the llord ban repealed? he wrote to this 700 years. he grew up before him like a tinder shoot with their roots out of ground had no duty your majesty nothing in his appearance he was despised and rejected by mankind the man who suffered in familiar with pain. he was despised in be held him in lowenstein. surely the - - he took up our pain but we considered him punished by god and deflected. he was crushed for our iniquities and transgressions.

by his well as we are healed we're sheep gone astray. he was afflicted but did not open his mouth and led like a lamb to the slaughter he did not open his mouth. he was taken away. two of his generation protested he was cut off from the land of the living and was punished. he was assigned a grave with the wicked and although he had done no violence it was the lord's will to crush him to cause him to suffer and although the of the board makes life and offering for said he will prolong his his-- the will of the zero board will prosper after he has suffered you will see the light and be satisfied

by his knowledge to justify many in with the spare the inequities. therefore i would give him a portion and he will divide the spoils with the strong because it is numbered with the transgressors. but then he read the chapter he read it several times and it dropped its and is carried off he did not show up three more days and virucide was worried. when he came back he said what happened? when he was in the holy land he had cursed jesus on calvary's to say this is where the christians began and the people that were with him at the time

scurried down the hill thinking they would be hit by a bolt of lightning. soviet man breaks down in tears as he related the next chapter in his journey and says he made an announcement to the group the last two days i have learned the one that i cursed on calvary is from his wounds i.m. peeled. isn't that also? it is unbelievable. [applause] i have so little time and so much to shares of live abbreviate. critics say faith and reason are incompatible that christianity is incompatible but the world tells us to acquire wisdom and god made

us in his image intelligent so we can relate to him to have a relationship to mind the depth of his riches there requires intellect and there's nothing compatible were workers unity is concerned. [applause] the overwhelming evidence is that christianity's goes way beyond a reasonable doubt if you study with an open heart and open mind you will discover it is true jesus christ is a historical figure while being fully god and man to die for our sins provide resurrected physically in the body. i did not understand teases christ. if i had understood i might

have been a believer earlier. is catholic writer i read his book the life of christ he said three things distinguish jesus from all others that claim to be god he was the only man who was filled by prophecy. second even skeptics have to refer to people and third deal of that lived life backward and this gave me an entirely new perspective on christ. he was born to die. sova jesus said get behind me to peter he was now going to die he had to die and suffer to take on human form

to experience the full suffering of humanity. he had to be human and otherwise the if it was abstract cannot divide those scales it had to be real. was really had to be fully guide to wipe the slate clean for all past and future imprisoned since. i used to worry. why would the all-powerful god permit evil? what i did understand beyond free will that we grow with are suffering because we grow in our relationship all of which is profoundly important but i did not understand that he became man to suffer with us and for us and continues to do it today. he had to be fully god and man for that to occur. some people imagine the

indifferent god sitting on the celestial deck chair but for the cross a with not believe in christianity jesus christ by savior came to the earth as a man. he took all the arrows for us and separated from the father just so we could live. why would god save father why have you forsaken me? he had to suffer. why would he say that? died take this from a. he was suffering in hughes' humanity he knew it would be a eternity momentarily but the suffering was so excruciating but then one second later but not my will but your will will be done he knew that is the reason

he came. when we imagine our suffering we don't understand why god allows the suffering remember we have a savior who died for s that was not human before his incarnation but became human and will be forever after to have a personal relationship with him. i advise skeptics to please read this book because i tried to tell you the fascination of the bible. and misapprehended what it was trying to say until i dug into its. i thought it was nothing could not be supported they have been translated as britain investigated by critics even liberal critics know we're reading the exact thing that was written and it could be trusted because was transformed from people

who were projected for the gospel and the reason they were is because they saw jesus christ in his body after he died in after the tomb was empty if the tomb was full if he was in the two big could have produced the body and ended christianity but they could not. he was resurrected it appeared within 40 days one time at 500 people show ring people to come up and review and many were still alive because he wrote in the '50s 20 years later they were still alive and could not refuse him. favored transformed to because i said why? not those who believe in the ideology but those who

believe in these other things you were willing to do die. what distinguishes them is that they saw the living crisis in his bodily form after he died. he was strong if they saw a man who was well known they'd never would have followed him because they knew he was not resurrected. just one step from the grave. but the truth is he was the risen christ they based their faith on seeing him and i am wide the gap, and new testament scholar said they don't base their belief on the abstract radius. how would you like to base your e eternal destiny on? the fact that using some ideas are right grex you're pretty scheerer but save may

be right or wrong. or the fact that you and a bunch of friends saw someone over the last month? that is what they based it on and saw it in history then they spread the gospel to the rest of the world it is a glorious name. god bless you all. thank you for having me. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] >> thank you david limbaugh. as you know, we have a lot of speakers and redo our very best to keep everyone on time. we do have a timer in front of us to know what it means when the red light goes off? not very much.

[laughter] as speaker earlier said i am sorry i went so long i said to rigo back to the machine to get that time backtracks we're doing the best we can. aren't they great? [cheers and applause] now we will bring up the clean up hitter the last speech of the afternoon boarded batterers and one day would become governor of that state. and first elected to congress soon 2004 reelected 2006 and 2007 race to become governor after dramatic reform and political ethics education reform and business improvements he was reelected 2011 in a landslide. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome from louisiana

louisiana, governor bob region doll -- bob region doll. [cheers and applause] ♪ [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much. safety for that generous reception. it is great to be here in washington d.c.. that is not true. actually. [laughter] . .