worked. it is intelligent. after he graduated, he worked several he worked as an x-ray technician, bank teller, school bus driver, supervisor for highway cleanup crews, and a crane operator in a factory. very well-rounded. and then he was accepted into the university of michigan school of medicine and upon completing medical school, dr. carson went on to direct pediatric neurosurgery at johns hopkins children's center for 29 years. dr. carson has received numerous awards, including the presidential medal of freedom, which is the highest civilian honor in america.

he was appointed by president george bush to serve on the president's council on bioethics in 2004 and was named by cnn and "time" magazine as one of the nation's 20 foremost physicians and scientists. he is a writer and author and has published eight books so far. if you haven't read one of his books yet, what are you waiting for? carson has been well known for his speech at the 2013 national prayer breakfast, and he's been married to his wife candy for 40 years, and they have three sons. please help me welcome dr. ben carson. [cheers and applause]

thank you so much. there he is. dr. carson: thank you very match. thank you. i'm delighted to be here with you today. you know, i was thinking yesterday about the terrible tragedy in charleston, south carolina. one of the people who was killed, somebody i was talking to just a few weeks ago, the state senator who along with one of the other members was a cousin of my business manager. and close friend, armstrong williamson. these things hit so close to home. if we don't pay close attention to the hatred and division going on in our nation, this is a harbinger of what we can expect. i'd like to to take a moment of silence to remember those who lost their lives.

dr. carson: thank you. you know, faith and freedom are topics i like to talk about. there is no time clock up here so you will see me checking my watch from time to time. i realized when i was in iowa, one of the left wing media said, "carson kept checking his watch." that's because they give me specific time and i don't want to go over it. they always find something negative to say. that's ok. i find it amusing.

at any rate, when i think about the things that really enhanced my faith, i was a youngster who was troubled. i had a horrible temper. i remember when i was 14 another youngster angered me and i had a large camping knife and i tried to stab him in the abdomen. fortunately, under his clothing, he had a large metal belt buckle. he fled in terror. i was more troubled than he was recognizing that i was trying to kill someone over nothing. i locked myself in the bathroom, and i started contemplating my life. i have turned things around academically. i was a horrible student. through the efforts of my mother making my read, i conquered that and became a very good student but i realized that i was never going to realize my dream of becoming a doctor with a temper like that. my choices were going to be jail, reform school, or the grave, but none of those appeal to me. i said lord, "unless you help me, i'm not going to make it." there was a bible and i picked it up, and there were all these verses in there about fools.

and i read them and they sounded like they were talking about me. but they were always these verses about anger but proverbs 19: 19. no point getting an angry man out of trouble because he will get right back into it. but encouraging provebs like 16: 31 "and a man who can conquer his anger can conquer a city." verse after verse, chapter after chapter, all written about me. i came to an understanding during that time that to lash out at somebody, to punch somebody in the face was not a sign of strength. it was a sign of weakness. it meant you could be easily controlled or easily manipulated. i also came to understand being angry has a lot to do with selfishness because it's always about me, my and i. somebody is in my space and took my thing. if you can learn to step out of the center of the equation and let it be about somebody else and look at things from other

people's point of view, you are not likely to get angry. that was the last day i had an angry outburst. it has never happened again since that day. [cheers and applause] but you know, some people say, "you just know how to cover it up." no. i was hiding a secret. but god fixes a problem, he doesn't do a paint job. he fixes it from the inside. it is fixed. that gave me a lot of faith. i talked to god not only is my heavenly father, but earthly father to go to when you have problems and help you in situations. as i was entering my senior year in college, i had been resisting relationships with girls, women because i did not want them to get in the way of my studies. i said it's probably time to start here. i said, "lord, let the next

relationship be the right one because i won't resist it." and he gave me the most wonderful wife and a couple of weeks we will celebrate our 40th anniversary. [applause] he's available if we just ask him for stuff in terms of our faith. when i was finishing my residency at johns hopkins johns hopkins is a modern birthplace for neurosurgeons and we were opening a new neuroscience center, so all of the bigwigs from around the world were there. one of the bigwigs from australia took a liking to me. he said, "you should come to australia and practice in western australia." i said, "australia, you have got to be kidding me." i didn't think about, but that is what i was thinking. you drill a hole from washington and come out in australia. and i have heard they had a

whites only policy. so i wasn't all that interested. it seemed like every time i turned around, there was someone saying "g'day, mate, how are you doing?" every time i turned the tv on there is a special about australia. so i said to my wife, "i think the lord wants us to go to australia." my wife started doing some research and discovered they had a whites only policy but was officially abolished in 1968. so we sold all of our earthly belongings and off we went to australia. our friends were saying you will be back in three weeks. little did they know we didn't have any more money. we couldn't come back. [laughter] the biggest problem we had with keeping up with the dinner invitations. they love americans, and they like to hear your accent. when i would dictate an operative note, sometimes the

ladies would comment and say dr. carson, we can't understand your accent. i said, excuse me, i am the american, you have the accent. [laughter] the second problem every time i sat down to read a chart, the -- invariably, someone would come up to me and say, "can i feel your hair?" i'd say, you can feel it, but it is going to cost you $10 bucks. i always told the aussies i couldn't remember their names because they all looked alike. [laughter] i realize why god sent me there because they were only four neurosurgical consultants in all of western australia. once they discovered that i knew how to operate, as a senior registrar, they left me in charge of the major teaching hospital. i was doing three or four major craniotomies everyday.

if i stayed on at hopkins i would've gotten whatever whatever anybody else didn't want to do. but in australia, i was doing these fabulous cases for a year. when i came back to john hopkins to join the faculty, shortly after the position opened up the director of peed at rick neurosurgeon ri, and -- director of pediatric neurosurgery and normally they would get somebody with a lot of gray hair, but they said carson is very young but he knows how to do everything. there was, 33, chief of pediatric surgery at johns hopkins. but the lord had prepared me for that, and i began to understand how he always prepares you for what he wants to do. i have to say, i thought it was pretty hot stuff. this little kid came in from georgia, and he had been diagnosed with a malignant brainstem tumor, and multiple opinions, everybody just told the parents to take him home and let him die. they ended up at hopkins. i looked at his skin and i said wow, this is awful.

the kid was barely moving, barely breathing, foaming at the mouth. eyes looking in different directions. disconjugate. i said to the parents, there's nothing i can do about this. and they said, "but, doctor, the lord is going to heal our son, and he is going to use you to do it." i said i will tell you what. let's get an mri. m.r.i.'s were new at that time. maybe it will show something that was not the cat scan. we got an mri and i showed it to the radiologist. they say the same thing. but, "doctor, the lord." the lord is going to heal our son. i said i'll tell you why. -- i tell you what. you've come all the way up here. i'll do a bopsy. 1-1,000 times the scans are wrong, and maybe this is one of those times.

i open his head up, went on the brainstem with this grayish red mask. i biopsied it. cambric high-grade glioma, a malignant tumor. i took out as much as i dared, closed it up, talked to the parents and said all the things you normally say. only god knows why people live for so long and may be served its purpose better and will understand it in time. thank you, doctor, but the lord is going to heal our son. i just shook my head in amazement at their faith as i walked away fully expecting he would deteriorate and die. instead, his eyes became conjugate, looking in the same direction. he started handling secretions. i said, "what is going on? maybe we should do another scan," and we did and there is still a big ugly tumor. but you could see a little ribbon of tissue that's just

outside the tumor in the corner. i said, is it possible that tumors outside of the brainstem and it is crushing the point you can't see it and maybe i should go back in? they said by all means. i went back and in the nature of the tumor was different. i peeled away layer by layer. when i got to the last layer, there was a glistening white brainstem intact, smashed but intact. make a long story short, that boy eventually walked out of the hospital. today he is a minister. [applause] interestingly enough, one of the oncologists came up to me and said i've always been an atheist, but now i am a believer. it is really for me because i thought i was doing a great thing. i thought i was really hot stuff. i realized after that that it wasn't me, it was god. and i said lord, you beating a -- i said, "lord you be the

neurosurgeon i'll be the hands." and that's where the title "gifted hands" came from. god is in charge in terms of what happens. i look at something like the bender twins, the first set of conjoined twins. i've been involved in several, but that was the first set, the twins were joined at the back of the head. such twins had never been separated before and survived. two months before i knew anything about the bender twins, i just had this obsession with conjoined twins. i started trying to figure out why the results were so dismal. i concluded it was the sanguanation of bleeding to death. i started talking to people. i talked to a friend of mine who was the chief of cardiothoracic surgeons.

i said, you guys operate on babies' hearts, how do you keep them from bleeding out? they told me where you cool the body temperature, pump the blood up, operate for an hour, put it back in in, and start the heart. i thought that might work if we did it at the critical time. two months later, here they showed up being presented all of the world to see if anybody had an idea how they could both be saved. when i explained things, everybody started getting excited. we started putting together a team at hopkins. that was the great things about being at hopkins. you have incredibly smart people in lots of different areas. you are able to put together the right kind of team. that is such an important factor because there were things i didn't know, but experts who did know them. and if you can get those people working together toward the same goal, it is amazing what can be accomplished. in fact, as you know, it turned out well and they both survived and now is the first and only time that's ever happened with those kinds of twins.

but god always prepares you for what he wants you to do and that really is the key. those of us who are people of faith have to trust in him, have to believe he will give you what you need and understand what you are doing. know your stuff so well. study so you need not be ashamed because you know what you're talking about all the time. i remember a few years back i was engaged in a debate in hollywood with a leading atheist. this guy thinks anybody who believes in god is a total moron. as we got to the end of the conversation, you know, he is denigrating anybody who could believe in creation, i said you know what, you win. because i believe i came from god, and you believe you came

from a monkey, and you have convinced me. you are right. [laughter] [applause] but i mean, what can i say? you know. but the fact of the matter is it is important for us to have a good foundation in terms of what we believe, and we have to be willing to stand up strongly for it. you think about in the pre-revolutionary days in this country. those settlers were not happy with king george the third and his dictatorial style. tyranny was alive and well. they began to get together in their town halls, barns, living rooms. they even invited the loyalists. they said what kind of nation do

you want to have? what are you willing to stand up for and fight for? what are you willing to die for? and they encouraged each other and that is how a ragtag bunch of militiamen were able to beat the most old and professional army on the planet. -- the most powerful and professional army on the planet. that is what we are going to have to do today. we are going to have to be willing to stand up for what we believe in. the majority of americans actually have common sense. they actually think logically. they actually believe in the values and principles that made this into a great nation. but they have been beaten into submission, and they are afraid to speak out.

that is the reason i stand so vehemently against political correctness. people fought and died so we could have the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression. we shouldn't give it away. it is the reason i am so vehemently opposed to the so-called affordable care act, not because it's all about income redistribution and control, but the reason i dislike it so much is because i love america and what america stands for. america is a place that is of, for, and by the people with the government there to facilitate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. what this demonstrates is the opposite. the government comes along and says i don't care what you people think. we are doing it our way. we are going to jam it down your throat. if you don't like it, too

bad. that is not america. we must stand up for what america really is. and it's going to really come down to this. are we willing to be called a name, to get an irs audit, to have somebody messed with your job or your children? see, most of us have a tendency to put our head down and hope that nobody notices. but i have got to tell you freedom is not free. you have to fight for freedom every single day, and it is not something we are going to be able to pass on to our children if we neglect to do that.

think about the people who came before us. nathan hill started as a teenager, became a spy -- when he was caught by the british and ready to be executed, he said my only regret is that i have but one life to for my country. think about that. think about all the soldiers who gave their lives. many cases knowing they would never see their loved ones or their homeland again, and they did it for you and for me and now it is up to us to decide what are we going to do with that freedom. and yes, i know president obama said that we are not a judeo-christian nation, but he doesn't get to decide. we get to decide what kind of nation we are. thank you so much.

[cheers and applause] -- you see this is the greatest time ever to be alive. our be light can shine brighter. this is what we are so excited about. this is why we wanted to be here. it isn't just because ralph wanted us to speak after ben to clean up all his mistakes.

dr. james dawson was supposed to do a keynote at a conference, and they said hey, guys, his flight got canceled, we need you to fill in. we walked out on that stage, and i said you know, my name is dr. james dawson, and this is my wife shirley. >> all right. >> you know, after we got canned by hg tv, i want you to know we are so encouraged by what is happening in america. one of our top banking clients we flipped houses and all these things but one of our top banking clients fired us, and they took properties from all of our franchise he's. we reached out to them and said, whoa hold on a second, what's going on. is this because of the media firestorm, and they gave us the highs man trophy stiff arm. it hit the trudge report.

within eight hours we had a personal aapology from the president of that bank. and here's what's really cool. our media rap reports showed 51 million tweets were delivered about that story. basically that bank got spanked by america and said, you give these boys their property back. so they gave us all of our properties back. it reminds us of a story of chuck yaeger when he broke the sound barrier the first time, and he said, it felt like the whole plane was going to break apart, and then boom, broke through it, and a super-natural peace that surpassed all understanding was right there with him. we see the shaking that is happening in america but we truly believe that a great awakening is coming, and we need to stick it out and stand bold for jesus. you know, as we're traveling the country, i want to encourage you fwies, the revival has already begun. the spark is already here, and

all we have to do is join it. as christians, i tell you what, now is the bheft time ever. what we want to encourage you guys with, is we need to stand with our politicians, our leaders, and our spiritual leaders, and concern ourselves with reverence to god and not relevant to culture. because if we are reverent to god, then relevant will follow in its wake. there's a man named noah who knew more about building a boat than any of us in this room. in hebrews 11 it said noah in reverence built an ark to god. imagine this. here noah is building a boat amidst all of these godless people and someone walks up to him and says, noah, what you've been doing this 60 years. what are you doing? he said building a boat. they said why?

because it's going to rain. it had never rained before. there was nobody on earth that was more irrelevant than noah. but guess what? the very first drop of rain that hit that ground, guess who was the most relevant man on the planet? it was noah, because he was led by his reverence to almighty god. that's what we're here for today, to encourage our pastors that now is the time to be reverent to god. when we do that, we will be lightning bolts for christ and no longer lightning bugs. >> he doesn't deserve applause for that. as we travel the country and the lord is giving us time to speak, our goal is to mobilize christians and say now is the time to stand bold, now is the time to be reverent to god. you know what? if you are reverent to god and you say god's blessings are only

found within god's boundaries, but you remove them they are replaced by burdens, if you say that, that's the most intoll rent bigoted thing you could possibly say. we're both married, i've got five kids. i know how to do it. jason has four. we have nine kids between the two of us. but we say sex is meant to be in the boundaries of marriage. between a man and a woman. is that mean and hateful? no. if you throw it to the fire place, it heats your house. >> you might want to stop there. >> ok. i'm getting all flustered now. but once that fire gets out of the fire place, it tears the house up, it destroys the house, it hurts the family. so we have to be willing to stand on god's boundary. and as god defines the boundaries. this is why you will see the heritage of our nation, of the

judeochristian values in the bible, and we can't be afraid of that. and yes, we will get called names. we will enter the fray if we begin speaking like that. >> let me interrupt you for one second. there are two words you have to remember. when you are labeled hater, bigot because you stood for whatever is right, two words, so what? you can put hashtags in front of that if you want to. so what? it's the greatest compliment you can get for someone to ridicule you for your faith. god determines gender, god determines identity, and god's blessings cannot be found apart from god's boundaries. we were on cnn several times, dad called, i said, man, dad, we're getting called other all kinds of names.

he said, did they say they are going to screw your mouth shut? i said no. he said, nen so what. just keep speaking. the scripture says, you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free. jason and i are entrepreneurs, job creators. people say what are you doing since you got fired? trying to create more 0 jobs. giving to charitable efforts. this is what we want to do, and this is what christians should be doing in every city across america. jason and i we traveled to tam pal florida to one of the groups that we sell a lot of properties for, tons of employees. we walk in and the human resource managers meet us and say, we are going to walk you around the office, and we want to let you know there are people in this office that don't like you guys anymore because they watch the news. we said, hey, we have been selling properties for these folks a long time. we went walking around.

it turned out that the l human resource guy was a homosexual, and jason and i had an absolute ball with him. i started asking him questions about his life. it turns out he was really struggling with some things, and i was able to explain to him how much god loves him. to explain to him that god has given him a boundary and god's given me a boundary. and we all have a tendency to want to pull those boundaries down. but then jesus foregives us. he doesn't hold us to some legalistic holy standard. no, god gives us these boundaries. so i begin to explain this to him. do you know what happened in within about 30 minutes? that man with tears rolling down his eyes bowed his head and surrendered his life to jesus christ. praise the lord. that has nothing to do with me

or jason, but i want you to know, that when we focus on reverence, reverence to god will tear down the stronghold. when we are willing to be bold, god's truth can come and set us free. we can't allow the labels to keep us out of the fight. in act's chapter 4 peter and john were being threatened by the leader of the day, by the culture of the day, which you do not speak about this man named jesus. so peter and john got together and they prayed for one thing. they said oh lord take note of their threats and grant that your servants may speak your word with great boldness. jesus we love you, we praise you, we worship you. god i pray a spirit of boldness over every person in this room.

i pray a spirit of boldness. i pray you do something awesome in 2015 and every person in here walks out here a lightning bolt for you in the name of jesus. >> amen. >> amen. >> ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome to the stage, the president of ohio christian university and ohio l faith and freedom chair dr. mark smith. >> good morning.

let me -- i want to tell you a one of the character riftics of ronald reagan, he was able to do several key thengs to move forward. in third grade reading we are at 95.8% of our third graders can read. with his work in the economy, with his work in extending a hand to the poor, we have a candidate, i hope, for the 202016 presidential race governor john kasich is with us today. would you welcome him. [applause]

gov. kasich: thank you, listen let me -- i want to tell you a story that has been rolling around in my head for the last few days. when i was a little boy, probably in the fourth grade, i was a catholic and i would go to church on sunday and i saw these altar boys. i thought, boy, that would be a cool thing to do. they told me i would have to learn about 100 pages of latin which i did over the course of a week. i qualified and i got to be an altar boy. i remember my first mass. i did it for a number of years. i went to public school, but i was deeply involved in the church. around the 10th grade, one sunday, the commentator, i don't know how many of you know what a commentator is but he stands at the podium and does the readings and announces the hymns. the commentator did not show up so the pastor told me to -- put

on your polyester jacket and lead the folks. i got up on the podium, and i could see my mother sitting out there and she started to get up wondering what i was doing. i was part of that service. i did that for a number of years. i don't remember if i was a junior or a senior, but one sunday, we were doing this and one of the things that i would do is sing. i am in a public school. all of my friends are watching me. i just did not want to sing. we got to the closing hymn and i announced the closing hymn and the organ started to play, and the priest was coming off of the altar, and no one was singing.

and i shouted "stop the organ. i looked at the people, and i said why do you go to church? you know, the lord loves singing, and he particularly loves the closing hymn. the priest is looking at me like -- what is this guy doing? the organist plays and a few people sing and that is the end. i am walking off of the podium and a little old lady walks up to me and she says -- young man, i love to sing in church, the next time, please give us the right page that the hymn is on. and it has been that way through most my lifetime. as a kid, as a young man, in the church, and in my life, i felt the lord. he did not speak to me or send me an e-mail or a phone call, but i felt him.

like many young people, the lord became a rabbit's foot for me. pull it out on test day. pull it out on election day. come on lord, i have the rabbit's foot. and then in 1987, michael novak, the great theologian talks about life as a veil of tears. in 1987, a severe storm hit my life and threatened to wash me away. i wrote a book about this and it is called -- every other monday. when that happened, and that storm hit, i was not sure how i was going to survive.

i reached out and i clung to all i knew. i said -- god i do not know what is going on here. a minister showed up and we talked. and he said to me, where do you stand with the lord? as i buried my mother and father, i reflected on that. he said to me -- there is a window of opportunity right now for you. your hurt and your pain will dispeer. -- disappear. but you have an opportunity to figure out who you are and where you are, and i started at ground zero. is there such a thing called god? does god love me? does he know my name?

will he answer me? did jesus really live on the earth? was he really the son of god? and i tore it all apart. no more rabbit's foot for me. no more rabbit's foot. i got to get to the bottom line and either i believe it or i don't. that was 28 years ago. for 28 years, i have wrestled with it all. not quite like jacob. the more i wrestle, the stronger i get. the more i wrestle, the stronger the foundation that i am trying to build my house upon. i did not come here for politics. ralph reed asked me to come here. i was in utah the other day doing an interview.

with a young woman. she said, sometimes you talk about faith. a lot of people don't like you when you talk about faith. why do you do it? i told her i would let her in on a secret. the storms of life will come, it is inevitable. how is your house built? the lord is there to be with you. to support you, to give you strength. over the last 28 years, i have been set free. people say, john kasich takes issue and we don't understand it. i will tell you what the lord has done for me. confidence, strength, and worldly criticism doesn't matter a lot to me. i know that the role that i have to play on earth, to lift people, to realize that all of those who are made in the image of the lord, need to be upheld.

we know we need to love our enemies. that is a hard one. we know we have to be humble. we know we have to stand for the poor and the bereaved and the widowed. god bless those people in south carolina. they are playing for the larger game, i believe, just like i am. i have a mission, and i have a role on this earth, but i am trying to prepare myself for the world that is yet to come. one of my heroes, dallas willard, he said -- as you live your life on earth, are you prepared to run five cities for the lord in the kingdom yet to come? i talked to a lot of young people.

i tell them they have a gift. you are made special. there is no one like you. you don't have to believe what i am saying, and by the way, i don't believe in shoving my views down anyone's throat. i have a roadmap. cs lewis in a book i was just reading last night said -- he cannot even live up to his own principles and i don't either. i am a failed guy. what i know, is that every day i have a new opportunity. what i tell these young people is -- your gifts are different and unique to you. the key to life is to unwrap those gifts, whatever they may be. and use those gifts to change the world. to make the world a better place. you can tell people about that handbook. the handbook was not here to tell us what we should not do,

that handbook that the lord has given us has told us about the way to lead a successful and meaningful life. and his blessings come, in my opinion, from reading that handbook. my life, i have been struck by lightning since the day i was called to that podium to be the commentator at that church. i was elected to the legislature at 26 years old. they do not even live in ohio. my mother and father couldn't believe it. they didn't even live in ohio. in 1982, at the age of 30, i got a chance to go to washington and work with ronald reagan. and so many other great people. i became the chairman of the budget committee. my dad carried mail on his back. my mother's mother could not speak english. my father's father was a coal miner. and johnny kasich is in washington?

i became the budget committee chairman and one of the architects of the balanced budget and we paid down that. the economy grew and we lifted people. i served on the defense committee, putting the resources in so that america can be strong. it needs to be strong today. and then i left. i just left. i said it is time to leave. i wrote books. and i worked in business and i travelled. i was a big star on fox, you remember. [laughter] jonah did not want to go to nineveh. but i got a call, folks. i've been telling them repeatedly jonah didn't want to go to nineveh. when you are called, in whatever way you sense it, you have to go

to nineveh. so i became governor. first guy to beat an incumbent in 36 years. i have never even run statewide. how does this happen? the state was about dead. people were getting crushed and losing hope. not today. we are growing jobs, the most important thing. as we grow jobs, we leave no one behind. if you are mentally ill, we are not locking you up in prison if we can avoid it. we want to treat you and have you be on your feet to live your god-given purpose. i have been criticized for this. the drug addicted, they could be in your family. get them treated and get them on their feet to let their god-given purpose. ok? plawplaw [applause] [applause] are you working poor? we want to get you decent health care. we don't want you to be poor.

we want you to graduate. if you are a minority, we are going to include you and lift you. if you have a son or daughter who is autistic, you're going to get insurance. we are not going to bankrupt you. i won in ohio, 86-88 counties. 64% of the vote. 60% of women and 51% of union households. one of the largest victories in the history of our state. why did that happen? hope returns. there is another thing that has happened. we have not been able to do it all, but everyone is respected. everyone is made in the image of the lord. everyone has to be given an opportunity. everyone. that is what has to happen in america.

this tragedy that has all of us crying and many bleeding represents a vicious division that can be healed. it can be healed. america can be healed. we just have to get back to the basics. as a kid, the son of a mailman my mother, and my father would always say -- johnny, you can be anything that you want to be. that is the american dream. anybody -- black, white, yellow red -- it doesn't matter. everyone has a chance to live their dream and fly. it is all about hope. it is all about unity. it is all about lifting people. it is about showing them the better and the kinder way. so that everyone understands the

critical value of personal responsibility and resilience and empathy and family at the cornerstone and faith. we have done it in ohio. a big state. it is an important state. i am here to tell you that it can be done in america. whatever you should desire don't fracture, don't divide give hope, unity, lift everyone. that is a formula, in my opinion, for strengthening the beautiful and precious united states of america because when we left all of us as individuals, we come together as part of a beautiful mosaic. to form the most hopeful important, and greatest leadership country in the world, the united states of america.

god bless you and thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome the president of the american coalition of rabbis rabbi josef lavin. rabbi lapin: america was founded by old testament christians. this was why the great irish

historian william lechy wrote 150 years ago wrote that the foundation stones of america was cemented with hebrew mortar. he's right. what is it about the old testament? what distinguishes the old testament? one of the interesting characteristics is that it is heavily revelent with sex and money. it is like the pilot of a tv show. the details are there. my goodness, we know all about king david who wrote the book of psalms. we know even about his origin and where he came from. in the end of the book of ruth. his great grandmother. it's extraordinary the stories. there is far more information in the old testament on sex than there is on the sacraficial

rights in leviticus. there is far more information in the old testament on money than there is about the kosher dietary laws. and all of that comes to a head in the very opening scenario, the garden of eden, where we find a very gration and happy god -- gracious and happy god who completes everything with the statement, "and god saw that it was good." everything. even france. [laughter] for the first time, we hear, it is not good. what is not good? it is not good for man to be alone. now this is far more than merely a prescription of adam's

matrimonial prospects. not good to be alone means bachelors alone are a danger for society. whether it is a unabomer or this week in -- this week bachelors are bad for society. god says, we have a solution to make this problem go away. you see, it is really a difficult problem. because other than for a tiny hand. of teenage technological titans, the leadership of business in america is in the hands of married people. it really is. as a matter of fact, the only arena in the country where single men are disproportionately represented

is in america's incarceration. single men need wives. desperately. and society needs for single men to have wives. so when god says it is not good for man to be alone he then proceeds to tell us the story of the garden of he'den which revolves around sex and money. namely adam and eve, and how about the money? by the sweat of your brow, you shall eat bread. what is more about money than the quest for all of us to eat as much as possible for as little as possible. that's what money is all about. when god says by the sweat of your brow you shall eat money, what he means is the explanation for why in many cultures the slang term for money is "bread" or can you lend me some dough."

that's where is comes from. that's the origin. ancient jewish wisdom depickets the story of the -- despicts the garden of evil. it is a depiction, if it is not good for man to be alone, how do we best arrange for man not to be alone. two answers -- sex and money. by attaching to a woman and being submitted to one another loneliness goes away. and almost any married man knows, who writes the thank you letters in his family? connections in families are maintained by women. communities of men do not connect with one another. everyone knows the extent to which a man's business connections expand far more through his wife than through the golf course.

and so "not good for man to be alone," get married and work on trying to make money. now, among the single women here. a word of rabbinic advice. do not date a man with no financial ambition. please. don't do it. don't do it. it's not worth it. because god builds financial ambition into men. and that is the conclusion of the story of the garden of he'den for a purpose. it is a valuable thing. because through economic transactions we build relationships. how many of us have close friends because they are people with whom we have prayed? business assists relationships as well. the two go hand in hand. and it is not a surprise that in america's official state

religion of secular fundamentalism the only money that is accessible is money that has been confiscated by government force. but money that has bven created by free independent men and women doing transactions with one another, oh, that is greed. no it isn't. money is a measure of the extent to which you served another human being. and you didn't hold him up at gunpoint, the only way you got the money in your pocket is by pleasing another one of god's children. [applause] and the only form of sex that the official state religion espouses is that in the bible.

all other forms of sex brave and courageous to practice, but what you and your spouse do, that's retrogressive and negative. and exactly what the muslims did when they invaded spain in the -- they obliterated every sign much christianity. and that's many -- a fervent, revived christianity. [applause] >> we need to restore a bib lick cal understanding of money -- biblical understanding of money, making money is good. we need to restore a biblical understanding of marriage. traditional marriage is good. and the message we need to convey to the priests and

pastors and creatures of secular fundamentalism is, for 50 years we've done it your way. now let's do it our way. now let's do it his way. [cheers and applause] >> chairman of the faith and freedom coalition ralph reid.

>> how are you doing? when you start off with chris christie, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, and it just builds from there. i am very pleased to introduce a dear friend of mine. a man whom, by the way, rabbi lapin presided at his wedding, and officiated his weighed -- wedding to his wife diane 30 years ago. he is one of the most intellectually capable voices for our values in america today michael medved hosts a three-hour radio show on 200 radio stations across the country that reaches 4.7 million listeners, and has made him one of the top 10 political talk show hosts in the country. his most recent book the 10 big

lies about america, was a run-away national best seller. his columns appear regularly in the pages of the wall street journal and he attended and graduated from yale university and attended yale law school where he was good friends with bill and hillary clinton. they went in a little bit different directions. please join me in welcoming a great friend of not only faith and freedom but of faith and freedom coalition -- michael medved. [applause] michael medved: thank you. i'm so happy to be here and especially after hearing all these wonderful speakers, many of whom were talking about

basically the terrible state our country was in. i thought as an antidote to that i needed to begin the way i begin the radio show every day. i will broadcast from here this afternoon. by saying and another great day in the greatest nation on god's green earth. [applause] michael: i want to tell you why this is a particularly great day for religious faith-based conservatives and why it is a particular great day for me personally. first of all, there are people who believe in god and people who believe that god has given a special mission to the united states of america. this is a spectacular day because this week for the first time since 2007, the birth rate in america went up. did anybody notice that?

no. but it is worth celebrating because it does not matter if that child is born rich or poor or black or white or latino or anglo or asian or whatever the child is -- every new life is god's vote that the human race deserves to go on. [applause] michael: it is a beautiful thing. there is more great news which again we should celebrate, not ignore. we have to celebrate it. on the issue of abortion, this week yet another poll that shows that americans are embracing the cause of life. back when roe v. wade was adjudicated, the majority of americans described themselves as favoring abortion without restrictions. do you know the latest poll --

it was publicized this week -- what percentage of americans say they favor of abortions? 24%. three to one. the american people want more limits on killing of the unborn. [applause] michael: that is a beautiful thing but even more beautiful the rate of abortion has gone down dramatically in this country. in 1980, 1 out of every three pregnancies ended in abortion. can you imagine? an abortion, not miscarriage. if you add miscarriage do it, it was close to half of all pregnancies would not result in a baby. today, it is not one out of three, it is below one out of five. that is real progress. [applause] michael: that is real progress for the pro-life movement and

those of us who believe every child is a gift from god. i also mentioned today was a great day for me personally. the reason this is a great day for me personally is -- those of you listen to the show regularly know this -- this is the first time i have traveled across the country. the first time i am giving a major speech to a great group like this since i have been sick. i was diagnosed with throat cancer. in december of last year. and, you know, go figure. a radio talkshow host, what kind of cancer you get? god has a sense of humor -- throat cancer. i missed 11 weeks on the air but i have been back for eight weeks. [applause]

michael: what does the fact that i am now officially cancer free -- thank the lord -- [applause] michael: i have even gotten most of my hair back which is a nice thing. what does that have to do with what i was talking about with of the pro-life movement and abortion? aside from the fact i am very grateful that my parents who were very young -- and my dad was 21 and my mom was 22 when i was born -- thank god they did not decide to terminate me. it was illegal then, of course. aside from that, when i announced on the air i was going through my chemo and radiation treatments and in my fifth week of radiation treatment when i finally decided i had to announce on the air that i was having a problem. my voice was sounding bad. and, when i announced it on the air the first hour we announced it, we got 25,000 e-mails,

letters, people contacting us. what most people wanted to do was pray for me. you know what? a lot of people say i am a jewish guy. do you mind if we pray for you and your baptist church or catholic church or in our pentecostal church? my reaction was of course not. do you think i'm crazy? prayer helps. it works. it's early up lifted my spirits. there were three different cap catholic churches that dedicated masses to my recovery. it is a beautiful thing. this relates directly to the success of the pro-life movement. why? because what the pro-life movement did was overcome all religious divisions in this country. catholics working with protestants. orthodox jews working with mormons. people of every faith coming

together on this principle. the idea is beautiful. in this country, once upon a time there were anti-catholic riots. there were nuns burned alive in baltimore and philadelphia in the 1840's. today, we can work across religious lines on issues that matter. why? because we have this conservative idea that it is not a zero-sum game. you know what? i have a chapter in my book "right rturns" which is how i went from being a political activist to being the lovable conservative for much in that i am today. one of the chapters about the lessons that i learned is that a more christian america is good for the jews. [applause]

michael: why is that? there are so many people that are secular and need faith. it is a terrific thing if people embrace any serious they and come together to exalt america in our role which is very prominent in god's plans. it is the same idea that conservatives are able to say if my neighbor makes a ton of money, it is not a bad thing for me. it is a good thing. it it is not a zero-sum game. people who say the rich get richer and the poor get poorer do you really believe that? do you believe creating wealth causes poverty? if you believe that, you are an idiot. [laughter] michael: sorry. if you believe that one church floor showing -- flourishing will hurt another church, of course it does not. we can come together. last word -- let's apply the

same principle that we can come together to this campaign that is going on. look the other side wants to divide us into tea party versus establishment. moderates versus hard-core conservatives. economic conservatives versus social conservatives. we are in this together. we have wonderful candidates. all the gentlemen -- i know carly fiorina is speaking later -- they are all wonderful people. we are grateful to have them. we can work together. at some point we are going to choose but that is a choice between good choices. none are on the other side. none are evil. none deserve being put down. let us in the spirit of what my friend arthur brooks says saint ronald. let's go out, work together, understand that all of these

candidates can flourish and contribute and then we will come together as a movement across political and religious and economic lines. we will go out there and win this one for the gipper. this greatest nation on god's ringsgreen earth. thank you very much for your attention. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage, virginia galloway. [applause] virginia: thank you. in georgia in 2014, elected with a resounding victory in a very crowded senate field we elected david purdue as our georgia senator. ps already make an impression on washington, d.c. he brings his 40 years of

business experience, including being ceo of reebok and dollar general, to provide real-world expertise to the ad committee, budget, formulations judicial and special committees. he chairs the subcommittee for formulations and a -- foreign relations. he hails from glenn county georgia where he lives with his wife who he has been married to for 40 years. he has two sons and grandsons. we enjoyed some true georgia hospitality. please welcome to the stage my senator from georgia, david purdue. [applause] david purdue: thank you so much. thank you. thank you. i'm so honored to be here today with you. i'm so proud of the roots that

faith and freedom have in georgia. i'm so proud of that. i think we have a few georgians here today as well. [applause] david: i'm not a politician. i'm an outsider who has no boundaries in this political arena. myi was raised working on my family farm. i became a fortune 500 ceo. my story is not unique. it is the american story, it is why you are here. we are trying to protect that for our children and our children's children. i'm a working miracle. i should not have won this election by most prognosticators. if you think about it, there is a little story of like to tell that explains the mood of our state and i think it speaks to the mood of the country right now. it explains how i with no background ran for the u.s. senate and actually one. won. god has a sense of humor and i

cannot wait to find out why. this story really speaks to the mood of our state. it was may before the primary. it was a crowded field. we were going into south of atlanta and i had a new speech. i was very nervous. walking into a restaurant -- 100 people in the back. i opened the door and there was a little lady who looked like she was in her 80's. she stopped and i held the door for her. she looked at me and said you are running for something, arren't you? i said yes. she had one question -- have you ever done anything in washington? i said no. she said well, you got my vote. it didn't matter what i said, what i am for, she already made her mind up. we know something is wrong in washington. it is broken. [applause] david: my role right now is to

call this crisis out, but then offer real-world commonsense solutions. in the last 100 years, we have had three democratic super majorities. have not had a republican to a majority in the past 100 years. those super majorities have given us the new deal, the great society and yes, obamacare and dooddd frank. any reasonable person to look at the financial catastrophe and hold those three super majorities responsible. the irony of our time and this beast of what we have to do next year -- the irony of our time is this liberal -- these liberal policies of the last 100 years have failed the very people they claim to champion -- the working people of america. today, we have fewer people working than any time since jimmy carter was president. by the way, the best thing jimmy carter gave us was ronald

reagan. [applause] david: we have fewer people working today. these policies have failed. the middle-class incomes are down almost 20%. worst of all on the last six years while this administration doubled down on these liberal big government policies, 4 million women have fallen into poverty. we had a full-blown crisis. i have three components that i talk about when we talk about this crisis. the first is we have a constitutional crisis. this president has figured out how to run our government without congress. he is using executive orders and regulatory mandates to choke our economy and stunt the future for the next 50 years. he has formed the fourth armored government -- the regulators and they are choking the life out of our privacy.

we have to get back our beloved constitution. [applause] david: in that constitution, it has four very fundamental principles. we forget these and it is time we start telling the american people about them all over again. this is our mission. economic opportunities it is not guarantees. fiscal responsibility, limited government individual liberty. that is what i'm committed for and i will fight every day until we get back to those founding principles laid out in our constitution. the second area i want to talk about -- we have a global security crisis. i have made two trips to the middle east since i have been in office and i will tell you that i have been on the front lines in afghanistan and iraq and i can tell you the very best of america is in uniform fighting

for freedom every day for you and me. [applause] david: we have three areas that are really a problem. we have the rise of traditional rivalries -- china and russia. china has doubled the investment in the military in the last few years. russia, we see what they are doing in ukraine. we don't have a strategy. the second threat is of our own making. in 2011, this administration against all military advice, prematurely pulled our troops out of iraq, creating isis. now we face a tough decision of dealing with isis now or waiting and suffering the consequences here later. the third area and maybe the most dangerous area is that we are on the brink of having to deal with a nuclear iran. i'm here to tell you that we cannot have iran become a nuclear weapon state. not now, not in 10 years, not

ever. [applause] david: the third area that i want to talk about in terms of crisis -- i really have to come back to this. iwe just don't have a strategy in the middle east. we don't have a foreign policy. to have a strong for policy, you have to have a strong defense. to have a strong defense, you have to have a strong economy. we are on the urge of having the smallest army since world war ii. the smallest maybe since world war i and the smallest air force ever. when our military is facing more threats around the world than any time in my lifetime. we have treated a world where our friends do not trust us and our enemies don't fear us. part of the problem, part of the problem in the last six years, this administration has spent

$21.5 trillion running this government. of that, we have borrowed a trillion dollars. for every box of ammo we get every airplane we get, 40% was borrowed. it is crazy that it puts in jeopardy this very tree -- we have over 50 trees in the world right now. those countries are attacked, we have to go to their defense. one of those is time one. taiwan. our treaty says if they are attacked by china, we have to defend them but to do that we have to go to china to borrow the money to protect taiwan against china. that is absurd. it is the absolute truth. admiral mullen, former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff said our own federal debt is the greatest threat to our own national security. we have got to fix that and that is the third area of prices i want to talk about.

this is what brought me here. i'm an outsider to this process but i see this so clearly. we have a full-blown financial crisis and it is of her own making. $18 trillion. if -- how many of you remember double-digit interest rates? a few of us. i don't want to go back there. interest rates are only a 5.5% we would already be paying $1 trillion in interests. that is not manageable. that is twice will be spent on the discretionary budget. i'm fighting every day to go towards a balanced budget but we have to fight this problem. the worst thing we have coming at us over $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities. social security, medicare -- the trust funds go to zero in 15 years. the disability part of social security goes to zero in two years. what we going to do about that? we have gridlock in washington.

there is only a handful of business people in the senate. i feel like i have a point of view of how to get the economy going. we don't have a strategy economically. the government is basically killing our economy. overregulation, over taxation. we need to once and for all find a new way to fund our federal government, shut down the irs and move to a stacktax system that will create a level playing field. [applause] senator purdue: the second area we need to do is push back on the regulators. what is the priority? it does not matter. pick an acronym in washington and go after it. really. cfpd nlrb, you pick it and let's go get it. [applause] senator purdue: the third area -- i cannot make this up. the third area look at what god

has done for us. i don't believe for a minute that god has wanted us to fail. i have evidence. look at what he has done in the last few years with our energy. ladies and gentlemen we are already energy independent. we just don't use it. we have every opportunity to be -- we have to have energy security and to have basically the cartel of the world for the next 100 years in north america. we need a solid energy policy to do that. i'm just a business got. uy. i 'm trying to bring common sense solutions, but the other thing is we just don't have the sense of urgency that we need to get out this crisis. i have never been more encouraged hopeful but we have to balance this budget. we have to do away with his over bureaucratic collection of our money. i put a bill to develop that sense of urgency. i cosponsored a bill that would

bring term limits to the united states senate. [applause] senator purdue: i'm not a piece of where we are and i know you are not either. paul said be anxious for nothing, but through prayer let your request be known to god. god will guard your hearts and minds. that is a call to action for you and me right now. we are to pray, give thanks, within the other role -- the other message is we have to move. we got to act. time is short. i believe that our call to action right now is to make sure that we get our concerted values put back into action. with have to hold of the senate. [applause] senator purdue: we have to hold the senate in 2016 and we have

to win the white house. we have to stop this -- most of all, we cannot allow hillary rodham clinton one more night in our white house. [applause] senator purdue: bonnie and i have three grandsons. the oldest is four years old and his name is hudson. he figured out how to face time me. he loves to do that. i will tell you this -- he has figured out that he can face time he much anytime day or night and i will take his call. he called me two weeks ago. he said i love you. it reaches in and gets your heart, right? it reminded me i think that was god. i think it was a reminder to me of why you are here and why i am here. we do not want to be a member of the first-generation to tell our children and our children's

children that we are leaving the world worse off than the one our parents lessft us. ronald reagan told us freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. it must be fought for protected and then passed on so they can do the same thing. we will be telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in america when men were free. not on my watch. not on your watch. [applause] senator purdue: together, we can take our country back. we can put our principles back and create a new beginning for our children and our children's children. god bless you for what you are doing. thank you and god bless america. thank you. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please

welcome to the stage sauncha smith. >> good afternoon. i'm here to introduce a man with conviction. many of you may already know governor bobby jindal was born and raised in baton rouge louisiana. for those of you wondering, yes he has a birth certificate. [laughter] >> later, he attended brown university and graduated with honors in biology and public policy. following his graduation from brown, he attended oxford university as a rhodes scholar. after he turned down both harvard and yale for medical and law school. he worked for fortune 500 company as a consultant before entering public service.

in 1996, he was appointed secretary of the louisiana department of health and hospitals. governor jindal was appointed executive director of the national bipartisan commission on the future of medicare in 1998. at the conclusion of the work, he was appointed president of the university of louisiana system. in 2001, president george bush appointed governor jindal to serve as the assistant secretary of the health and human services the permit. in 2004, he was elected to the u.s. house of representatives to represent louisiana's first district. bobby jindal was sworn in as governor of louisiana in 2008 and again in 2012. here is what you may not know -- just this year, governor jindal supported the marriage conscious act which has the free exercise of religious belief. when the bill did not make it

out of house committee, he signed an executive order to protect the religious freedoms of louisiana families and business owners. amen. the washington post quoted him saying the great thing in america is we support the right of folks to live their lives according to their beliefs whether we agree with them or not. i think you can have tolerance and religious liberty. i don't think they are mutually exclusive. he is a fierce protector for those who have been sexually exploited. in june 2014, our governor signed four bills into law that would help ensure that criminals are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and that victims are defined and protected. amen. [applause] >> as the state director for louisiana, i'm especially proud as he has demonstrated an unwavering support for our friend israel. [applause] >> earlier this year, governor jindal said that the white

house's omission of jews is a pattern of a hostility towards israel. it is inconceivable the white house left jewish people out of the list of the islamic state targets in the request for authorization for military force. these repeated shots at israel and jews are intentional. these are not mistakes, they are not gaps. amen. undermining america's long-standing alliance with israel and disrespecting jewish people seems to be a strategic aim of this white house. concerned women for america friends, supporters of faith and freedom coalition, please help me welcome the governor of louisiana, bobby jindal. [applause] governor jindal: thank you all very much. thank you. thanks for that very warm reception.

i want to start by asking you something a little unusual for a political speech. given what happened in trustn south carolina, i want to ask you in joining me in prayer. if you would bow your head and join me in prayer. dear father, we come to you with deep sorrow in our hearts. father lord, we grieve deeply for our brothers and sisters who lost their lives with your holy scripture in a sanctuary, the house of god. we know you are in almighty and just and loving and forgiving god. we pray for healing for the families left behind. god, we know we are taught in scripture that the tomb is empty that you are not on the cross. we believe in the gift of eternal life. we pray for our brothers and sisters who have gone to your glory and kingdom. we pray that we might be

joined with them one day thanks to the gift that your son sacrifice. we pray for the sons and daughters, the wives and husbands, and children left behind. we pray for communities across america that this may be a time of healing and prayer. we come before you not as democrats, republicans, white or black, we come before you simply as sons and daughters and children of god. father we pray the pews will be filled this weekend, we pray bible studies will be filled and you bring joy to little boys and girls across the country asking their mothers and fathers about the reality of evil. j we pray we will not see a perfect world as long as there is sin in our world. we know there are no perfect human beings other than your son who made the ultimate sacrifice for all of us. we pray this will be a time of grace and healing.

we commend all those troubled and broken families to your care. we pray this might be a time of spiritual revival and faith. we pray that folks all over the country will find meaning in this awful, awful tragedy, this awful evil. we lift up these prayers in your son's name. in christ's name we pray. amen. this is a faith in freedom coalition. i want to talk about both faith and freedom. i cannot think of a more apt responsive this week's horrific acts. i want to share my journey to faith. i have always believed in god but i had a childlike faith when i was a child. maybe you remember that kind of faith. i would say my prayers are night but when i prayed to god it was

like i was praying to santa claus. you remember that. god if you would give me an "a" in history, i will be good to my little brother. if you were a duck hunter like me you probably heard the phrase that i don't want to go home and he handed. let me hit my limit and i will not ask you for anything else. the problem with that faith is every night i would make a promise every morning i would break it. every night i would be right back there trying to make deals with god. my faith would have stayed exactly that way if it had not been for my best friend. we were on the school bus one-day. he came up to me and said the strangest thing anybody had said. he said bobby i'm going to miss you when my family and i go to heaven. i will miss you when you were not there. i don't suggest you tell your neighbors that. they will think you are crazy. my friend was at a summer bible study and his pastor told him

the importance of sharing his fate. ith. several months later that same best friend gave me a christmas gift i did not want. i ripped open the paper and i was so excited. i knew it was going to be something good and expensive. if you have ever given a child underwear for christmas, you will know how disappointed i was. i opened by gift and i realized my best friend in the world had given me my very first copy of the bible as my christmas gift. i remember thinking -- who buys the bible? if you want a bible, you can get one for free at any hotel room in america. [laughter] god used that experience to plant the seed. i was so mad i wanted to give the bible back. my friend was smart. it was one of these student paperback bibles. on the front cover it said bobby jindal. [applause] you cannot regift that.

you cannot return that. good luck trying to give somebody a bobble with a couple -- bible with the cover torn off. i put it in the back of my closet and refused to read it. my grandfather died a while later. did was the first time i have ever lost somebody so close to me. somebody that i loved. he died pretty suddenly -- he had a massive stroke. he died shortly after going to the hospital. what was so hard was i never got to say goodbye. i cannot even remember if i ever told him how much i love him. i was so mad that all the time we wasted when we were together when he was alive. i remember thinking i would give anything to have five more minutes with them. i began to wonder if i would ever see him again. there is this place called heaven and doesn't really exist? how do you get into heaven?

do you have to have $1 million to impress god? do you have to be good 100% of the time or can just be good 51% of the time? i started reading that bible out of desperation. this would be a great testimony if i had a sudden epiphany but was not that easy. you get a new book, you open the first page and you start reading. i read about noah, the tower of babel -- i thought those were disney stories. mainly, i was confused by what i read. i was looking for a shortcut. i did not find any easy answers. god used that experience to plant a seed. i was still praying in making deals with god. i said if you answered my prayers, i would not ask you. a want to know if you exist. if you exist, i want to know how to worship you. my friend grew so frustrated

because nothing worked. they brought me to church, they prayed with me and nothing was working. one pastor even told me that bobby is so stubborn i don't think he will ever become a christian. . the great thing about that -- people give up on people. we worship an all-powerful god. [applause] we worship a god that can use whatever it is our lives to bring us closer to him. my mind wandered so god used what was most important to me. i was a normal teenage high school boy. he used a teenage high school girl to get my attention. it kind of made sense when you think about it. there was a pretty girl at my school that i liked from afar. my friends told me if i liked her to tell her, not them. i went and talked to her. it was amazing how easy it was to talk to this pretty girl. before i knew it, it went better than i thought.

she liked me and i like her. of course, i screwed it up. i asked her what she wanted to be when she wrote. i was born and raised in baton rouge. my kids were like my friends -- they want to play sports. most of the kids i knew wanted to be teachers, nurses lawyers -- normal things. farmers, business people. this little girl gave me an answer i never heard before. she said when i grow up i want to become a united states supreme court justice. who in the world wants to be that? let's be honest. what normal kid dreams about that? i asked her why. she said when she grew up she wanted to help save innocent human lives here in america. i remember thinking how did we get to such a serious topic? i just wanted to talk to a pretty girl. i also realize there was something in her life missing in

my. ine. i would later realized it was the holy spirit. god used that experienced the plant a seed. about that time, my best friend invited me to come listen to him sing at a church musical. in the middle of the music, they stopped and played a film. there was an actor playing jews sus crucified on the cross. i don't know why god chose that moment. i have no idea why that church in that moment got hit me harder than i was ever did before. it just hit me. if that is really the son of god and up on that cross dying because of me and my sense. ins. i mean for bobby jindal. it was that personal. how arrogant for me but to get on my knees and worship him. the youth pastor said if you are not accepting jesus christ as your personal savior -- we

started a meeting every month. we studied scripture together. the words of jumped off the page. it was like jesus were talking to me. from 2000 years ago we prayed together and soon i knew what i had to do. i would later say the most important moment of my life -- i answer to this question and debate -- it is easy. it is the moment i found jesus christ. if i'm honest, it is the moment he found me. i was the one that was lost. i tell you that is encouraging to plant seeds. you don't know whose life you might change for all eternity. i want to turn my attention -- i want to talk about the freedom part of today's conference. there is an all-out assault on freedom in the united states. we can talk about it in terms of the second amendment and in terms of being able to buy wrote health insurance and don't think we are smart enough to buy big altsgulps in new york.

in case you are worried the president will defend us against that mortal enemy called trans fat. he has our backs. he won't say it's radical islam but he will say trans fat. i will protect my own kids from oreos, medieval christians like the crusaders if he would do his job as commander-in-chief and hunt down and kill these radical islamic terrorists. [applause] governor jindal: i want to talk about the assault on religious liberty. i gave a speech at the reagan library over a year ago when i said this assault was coming. there are several examples. the hobby lobby case where they government wanted to find them $1 million a day because they didn't want to use her own money to pay for abortions for

their employees. how many are happy that they favored with the family instead of the obama administration? [applause] my question is why wasn't that a 9-0 ruling? why was that a 5-4 ruling for our first amendment rights? [applause] a second example -- phil roberts investment. they want a&e to cancel the show. i was one of the first to stand up for him, not only because they are friends and from louisiana. and it is great to watch a show with your family. i'm tired of the hypocrisy of the left. enough is enough. they say they tolerate diversity and opinion. they do unless you actually disagree with them. the third example -- you saw the fight in indiana and arkansas where big businesses made an

unnatural alliance with the radical left. i have a message for big business, by the way -- you are now in debt and folks want to tax and regulate you out of business thinking profit is it a dirty word. the republican party is not the party of big government, we cannot be the party of big business. you might as well save your breath when it comes to the state of louisiana. i'm with religious liberty every chance i get. [applause] governor jindal: the fourth example -- you may have seen hillary to said those of us that are pro-life need to have our religious beliefs changed. i don't know about you but my religious beliefs are not between me and hillary clinton. my religious beliefs are between me and god almighty. [applause]

i'm not taking my beliefs simply because they make her unhappy or unpopular with the left. when you hear hillary clinton or president obama say we have read him a religious expression. all they need is you can say whatever you want in church. religious liberty is the ability to live our lives 24 hours a day, seven days a week according to our religious beliefs. unlike hillary clinton and president obama, my views on marriage are not evolving with the polls. i believe in traditional marriage between a man and a woman. [applause] governor jindal: this fight is bigger than marriage. make no mistake about it -- this fight is about religious liberty. this fight is not whether we really do have for the amendment rights. there is no real read him of speech or freedom of association. i will summarize this in a way that even the liberals in

hollywood can understand. the united states of america did not create religious liberty. religious liberty created the united states of america and that is the reason we are here today. [applause] governor jindal: i want to close with the following thought -- this president, secretary clinton, they seem intent on dividing us. they seem intent on dividing us by race, gender, geography. we must remain united as a country. one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. [applause] governor jindal: my parents came to this country over 40 years ago in search of the american dream. by the way, they did it the old-fashioned way. they came here legally. [applause]

governor jindal: i want to say some things you are not supposed to say. i will say them anyway. i think it is ridiculous for us to allow people to come into our country, to use our same freedom to undermine those freedoms for others. i think it is perfectly reasonable to say that if folks want to immigrate to america they should want to be americans. they should do so legally. they should adopt our values, they should learn english and they should roll up their sleeves and get to work. [applause] governor jindal: my parents came to this country it was the first time they were on a plane. they were coming for the american dream. they had never been here. they didn't know anybody from louisiana. they could not even google.

they could not go online and search. they were coming to an idea as much as they were coming to a place. an idea of freedom and opportunity in search of the american dream. they were coming to be americans. my mom loves india, they love their heritage but they didn't raise their children as indians. if they wanted do that, they could have stayed in india. i'm tired of the president trying to divide us. we are not indian americans or irish-americans were african-americans or poor americans -- we are all americans. [applause] governor jindal: my dad would always tell my brother and me every day that we should be grateful that we were blessed to be born in the greatest country in the history of the world -- the united states of america. [applause] governor jindal: i want my

children and grandchildren to be able to say that same prayer as well. that is why it is not optional, we must win in 2016 not for the republican party, not just for conservatives, but for the sake of the united states of america. god bless y'all and thank you for allowing me to speak today. thank you all very much. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the president of american values gary bowers. [applause] gary: thank you very much. a pleasure to be here as always. fantastic remarks by governor jindal. i came here this afternoon with a prepared speech. pretty entertaining. i was going to go through a lot of applause lines. i was sitting back in the green

room and i heard governor jindal's prayer. it reminded me, as if we needed a reminder, of how heavy our hearts are today about the events in south carolina, but not just that because that is not an isolated incident. the country is in trouble. 75% of the country thinks americans is headed in the wrong direction. that is an extraordinary number of our fellow citizens that believe we are off the tracks. i don't know about you. i begin the day by going online or turning on the television or somehow getting information and i find myself almost hiding my eyes bracing myself because i wonder what horror might happen overnight that it will be hearing about first thing in the morning. babies left in trash cans. unbelievable horrific crimes. things that are unimaginable. the atrocity in charleston,

south carolina. these things trouble our hearts. as that is what happened at that church, sedley worldwide, that is not something -- christians have been killed in worship all of the world month after month after month for the last six or seven years. in nigeria, across the middle east we saw christians kneeling down before they were beheaded. the video that was mistreated by isis they told him we will leave either be had you or you can renounce jesus and you can live. those men, the last words they had on their lips was to praise our lord and savior jesus christ. we have pastors afraid of losing their tax reductions. [applause] gary: by the way, there has been

silence as christians have been murdered around the world. silence by the white house silence by a lot of pastors and churches. the commentators now because of the event in charleston are saying we need a national conversation about race, gun control. we can talk about all of those things but i think it is missing the point. we need a national conversation about god. [applause] gary: it has been about 14 years now since the attacks on 9/11. hard to believe, hard to believe. the first president george washington gave his inaugural address not at washington, but in new york city at the federal hall about five or six blocks away from what was ground zero on the morning of 9/11. that first inaugural address george washington told the people of the new nation that he would dedicate the country to god. he took the oath of office on the bible. he humbled himself after taking

the oath and leaned over and kissed the bible. he told the country that it was improbable that we would defeat the most powerful empire in the world. the only way he could explain it was by what he called the hand of god or providence. the first president, the first inaugural address and what he was saying was believed by every one of the founding fathers. they were learned men. they were well read men. when they went to constitution hall, among the things they read was the torah and the new testament. that is where they found the idea that they embedded in the founding documents of this country. the most important one is in the second paragraph of the declaration of independence. you know the words. there is about 22 words in the middle of the paragraph that defines who we are.

they are not taught today because the establishment in this country no longer believes the words. we hold these truths. that is the problem -- we hold these truths? the left does not believe there is something called truth. we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and and endowed by their government. no endowed by their creator. it was not any creator, it was not any god it was the god of abraham, isaac and jacob, the god of the bible. the god that knows when a spirit falls to the ground or a great nation rises he has counted the hairs on your head. that is the god the whole nation was built on. i used to be under secretary of education. let me give you a homework assignment -- read lincoln

second inaugural. one page long -- can you imagine? advice to all the candidates speaking here, when one of you win, give a one-page inaugural address. he was a broken man when he gave that speech. he had presided over a civil war where 650,000 americans had died over the question of whether black men and women were people or not. because if they are people, they are protected by those words. if they are property like a horse, well, when you find somebody's worst, you return it to them. lincoln in that one page, extraordinary, in one page refers to god and the bible a dozen times. he says something that quite frankly if american president said today would probably be impeached. abraham lincoln said god is just and i fear that a just god might

allow this war to continue until enough blood has been shed north and south to equal all the blood drawn by the slave masters slash. here is a president willing to suggest that not only does god judge men and women, he judges nations. abraham lincoln knew what this country was built on and he knew what we had violated and he asked the american people to ponder what god would require of our country. what would happen? what would happen if the president said that. we don't have to guess. i was on a lot of residential debates in 2000 and one of them we were asked what individual have the greatest impact on our values? george w. bush, george bush, we both said jesus christ. the audience loved it.

we explained why we said that. there were two dozen groups that issued press releases condemning our answers. we were called divisive, intolerant merely because we answered the question honestly that our views had been molded by what we understood christ's teachings to be. ladies and gentlemen, we all know you are not allowed to draw insulting pictures of mohammed right? have you thought about the fact it is getting more and more difficult to say the name of jesus? that are chaplains in the united states military on the way to losing their careers because they insist on praying in the name of jesus. my friends, i want a president in office that will grow our economy. a president that will restore our military strength, but my

friends, if we don't rediscover the central idea of america that god is the author of our liberty and that ultimately he is the only one that can protect it and defend us, know president we elect will matter. we will not be a great nation again unless we rediscover the central idea of who we are. [applause] gary: ronald reagan, the man i worked for eight years, said it best. unless we are a nation under god, we will be just another nation that has gone under. my friends, pray for your country. pray for your fellow citizens. pray for this piece of land and in the middle of all the efforts that divide us, pray that somehow black and white no matter how much money we have in our bank accounts, whether we

have -- we will understand the future of america lies with the god of abraham, isaac and jacob. he is the god that gave us the freedom we have and with only his blessing will this nation exist and survive in a dangerous world. god bless you all. thank you very much. [applause] never give up. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage gregcraig brown. [applause] craig brown: good afternoon. our next speaker served in the u.s. house of representatives from 1991 to 1995. and in the u.s. senate from 1995 to 2007 where he became known as one of the most successful government reformers in washington. rick santorum fought corruption

as a member of the gang of seven that exposed the congressional banking and post office scandals. he led for economic empowerment as an author and manager of the landmark welfare reform act of 1996 that empowered millions of americans to leave the welfare rolls and enter the workforce. his exemplary eight years of service on the senate armed services committee led the fight to transition our military from a cold war force to one that would effectively and was a leader in the fight to strengthen u.s. relations with and in support of israel. in 2012, he was a candidate for the republican nomination for president whose conservative voice and grassroots approach to campaigning, including visiting every one of it was 99 counties led to his stunning victory in

iowa caucuses. that victory catapulted him to front runner status where he ultimately won 11 states and nearly 4 million votes in the republican primary process. his consistent conservative stand on social issues and economic growth he refers to as blue-collar conservatism continue to resonate with millions of americans. he has been married to one wife of 25 years and their marriage has been blessed with seven wonderful children. just more than three weeks ago he announced his new candidacy for president of the united states. would you join me in giving a very warm welcome to rick santorum? [applause] rick santorum: thank you. thank you. thank you very much. thank you