>> your client is a baptist, right? >> yes. >> so he in terms of making his case is simply saying as a baptist, he doesn't have any particular religious belief separate from his baptist beliefs, basic christian beliefs. in other words, he doesn't claim to be part of some small group of people that have a particular concern about this kind of health care issue. >> no. these are beliefs that i believe are widely shared. >> so any baptist would be eligible for this exemption? >> it would depend upon the individual beliefs of the person. so there are i'm sure many southern baptists who share the greens' beliefs and also would object. maybe some that are not. but it would depend on the individual person who is bringing a claim. >> melinda, this is fascinating material here. it's not against all birth control. >> right. >> it's not a all or nothing. it's nuanced concern about abortion. you and i know the issue and the moral question there. this case, where do you see it going? where do you think it should go? >> well, i do th

. >> is this one reason you left southern baptist? >> it is one reason. the southern baptist convention was my area of work until the year 2000. my dad was a teacher. a sunday school teacher. we left the southern baptist convention when they ordained that women had to be subservient to their husbands and could not serve as pastors in a church, or deacons in a church. southern baptist convention universities, seminaries, a woman is not permitted to teach a class if a boy is a student. you can find a bible verse that says that. we left for that reason. >> you want to encourage women and girls, including those not abused, to speak up. those who speak out protected from retaliation. >> in the united states, the two most revered institution in america. our great university system. the most horrible abuse of women and girls in america is in the university campuses. the reason for it is that rapists, serial rapists, on a campus they are impervious to trial or persecution if they rape girls. presidents of universities and deans are reluctant to encourage a woman

ebenezer baptist church still stands now as the martin luther king jr. site which includes his boyhood home and grave site. in the sweet auburn district of atlanta which is east of downtown. the first time i ever drove across country when i was a teenager, i remember going there to see the grave site of dr. king and i remember looking in on the church and not knowing until i saw it that the church was still an active church, that it still has a congregation, that it's still there. i don't know what your job is, but it is hard to imagine a more humbling job in the world than being the pastor of the church where dr. martin luther king jr. was pastor, right, and his father before him. there is a man who has that job now. his name is dr. raphael g. warnock. today he was arrested at the georgia state capitol. this is a report from local channel 46 in atlanta. >> inside the senate chambers and outside the doors, dozens of people erupted in cheers, chants and sat down on the floor. some were arrested this morning and even more late this afternoon during coordin

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they are the best borough baptist church. you know what i'm referring to? >> yeah.er we got the, the decision from the supreme court, the next day i got an e-mail from someone, and it actually felt like a death threat against the westboro bepti ibaptist church. >> what did you do with it? >> i called my attorney first and showed him the e-mail that i got, and he got in touch with steve who was the attorney general at that time out in kansas. and it was turned over to the fbi. >> in other words, you were concerned that someone was going to do harm to the leadership of westboro baptist, and even though they had treated you in such a despicable fashion for a period of years, and they still do, you undertook those measures to present them? >> right. i don't want to see anybody get hurt out of this, michael. i just wanted to bury my son. in peace. and i didn't want to see anybody get hurt. do i like the westboro baptist church. no. could i give my opinion of them on camera, no. but i don't want to see anybody get hurt. >> may i just thank you for your courage? gay, strai

i am a baptist. are you a northern baptist or a southern baptist? i am a northern baptist. you a northern fundamentalist baptist? are you a northern fundamentalist baptist conference of 1857? or are you a northern fundamentalist baptist conference of 1812? he said die, you heretic, and pushed them off the bridge. i am here today to talk about the fact that we as conservatives have got to be far more engaged in finding converts than discarding heretics. [applause] it is a great honor to be back at cpac, but more than that, it is an honor to speak at this cpac. 2014 is an important year for conservatives. yes, the white house agenda is crumbling. obamacare is a disaster. president obama has lost the confidence of the american people. with things going so badly for the left, especially in an election year, conventional wisdom in washington is the best thing conservatives can do is nothing. should be simply to sit on our hands, to keep our heads down and and let president obama's failures preserve the america -- the republican majority in the house and when one in the senate. c

russell moore is with the southern baptist convention. barry lynn is executive director of americans united for separation of church and state. bonnie is calling in from middletown, new jersey. guest: good morning. the facts are the facts. your beliefs are your beliefs. when you put garbage and propaganda in, you get that out. the iud stops ovulation. it does not kill a fertilized egg. let's start from the premise. let's go with another odd premise. that corporations are people. they are legal entities, with corporate rights given to them -- granted by our laws. not people. people are certainly afforded their religious freedoms. there is no problem with that. you can believe what you want to play. -- believe. how about you coming to work for me? i am jewish. if i tell you what to eat, what to wear, how to live your life -- how would you feel? when you are a for-profit business. host: all right. your response? guest: corporations are groups of people banded together. the religious freedom restoration act does not exclude people in corporat

you're not a baptist yet. >> stephen: i'm not a baptist. i understand you're not a catholic yet. >> no, not yet. >> stephen: there's still time, sir. >> i'm thinking about it. i have two provisions to be catholic. if pope francis stays on in office and when a female catholic priest asks me to join her church. [ cheers and applause ] [ chanting ] >> stephen: those are your demands. jimmy carter has drawn a line in the sand. [ laughter ] all right, all right. have you told the pope this? >> i wrote the pope a letter about this book and about the problem with women's abuse, and he sent me a very wonderful letter back, and he said that he agreed with many things that i told him about, which he already knew, i'm sure, and said, in his opinion in the future years, women needed to play a much greater role in the catholic church than they were playing now or have played in the past. >> stephen: so what do you think the negative end of religion is when it relates to women? [ applause ] thank you. i did ask that question well, thank you. [ laughter ]

. >>> fred phelps of westboro baptist church in kansas has died at the age of 84 of natural causes.fox made a name for himself by blaming games and intolerance of homosexuality for disasters and anything else he considered wrong with this country. his followers frequently staged protests in san francisco during pride week and picketed the funerals of america's military men and women. phelps daughter said there will not be a funeral because the westboro baptist church does not worship the dead. >>> president obama announced more sanctions against russia following what he called its illegal move to annex crimea from ukraine. the executive order target senior russian government officials and a bank they use. more sanctions could be added if russia moves troops any further into ukraine. in moscow un secretary-general ban ki-moon met with russian president vladimir putin, urging peaceful negotiations with ukraine. >>> a dancer is back on the stage after losing part of the lake in the boston marathon bombing. we have pictures of adrian howlett davis, taken as she performed with her dance

we're excited that we're going to be in the area at baptist church on thursday march 6th. you don't want to miss it. free admission, free steak dinner and get this, 25 guns. >> stephen: 25 guns. (applause) come on! no other religion out there is going to be able to compete with free steaks and guns. what are the hindu goesing to offer, a bowl of chickpeas and the knowledge that in a previous life you were a bowl of chickpeas? (laughter) you see, folks, people used to go to church for a lot of reasons. they would go for a sense of community, upholding tradition, finding answers to life's biggest questions. but these days all of that, all of that is just intangible. and these days people want something more. plus-- (laughter) giving out free guns is consistent with christ's message. as mcalister reminded us, quote, jesus was pretty handy with the whip when he ran the money changers out of the temple. yes, yes, remember, jesus uses a whip in that gospel story. but folks-- people, people in kentucky don't use whips. no, people in kentucky, they use guns. they love guns. as mca

is with thee southern baptist convention.s executive director of americans united for separation of church and state. bonnie is calling in from middletown, new jersey. guest: good morning. the facts are the facts. your beliefs are your beliefs. when you put garbage and propaganda in, you get that out. the iud stops undulation. it does not kill a fertilized egg. let's start from the premise. let's go with another odd premise. that corporations are people. they are legal entities, with corporate rights given to them -- granted by our laws. not people. affordede certainly their religious freedoms. that.is no problem with you can believe what you want to play. how about you coming to work for me? i am jewish. if i tell you what to eat, what to wear, how to live your life -- how would you feel? when you are a for-profit business. host: all right. your response? corporations are groups of people banded together. the religious freedom restoration act does not exclude people in corporate form from being able to carry out religious co

he founded the westboro baptist church. he breached at the deaths of u.s. military personnel.h held several protests in the bay area and tonight there is reaction to reverend fred phelps' death from community leaders all around the country. >> picketing of the churches and funerals and -- was never the right thing for them to do. hopefully in the years to come they will give all that up. >> because of his views reverend fred phelps was called the most hated man in america. some posters are suggesting picketing at his funeral, however some disagree. >> hate doesn't drive out hate. it takes love to drive out hate. >> according to westboro baptist church the church picketed 53,000 events. last year 367,000 petitioners called on the white house to recognize westboro baptist church as a hate group. >>> coming up, continuing coverage on the fire burning near power lines in the east bay. also valuable patient data stolen and it has happened before. >> three data breaches in the last six months. reaction from patients. >> a 19-year-old shot and killed. two people are questioned. why i

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will speak with one of those arrested -- reverend raphael warnock, senior pastor of the avenues or baptist church come the church of dr. martin luther king. then as death penalty drugs become scarce, the assistant oklahoma attorney general jokes with a texas colleague he might be able to help texas get the drugs in exchange for 50 yard line tickets for top college football game between university of oklahoma and the university of texas. this is revealed in an e-mail obtained by the colorado independent, which also exposed how oklahoma injected leftover lethal drugs into a dead prisoner's body. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the ukrainian government is withdrawing his soldiers from crimea as russian forces continue to seize military bases. the announcement from ukraine marks the knowledge meant it has ceded control of crimea in the aftermath of this week's referendum vote and subsequent russian annexation. at least one ukrainian soldier has been killed as russian forces take over ukrainian bases around cri

this is not an obituary for the head of the westboro baptist church. dead at the age of 80. but someone, despite himself, actually did bring out the best in meepeople, and endep being a very, very clarifying thing for all of us. that does it for us tonight. see you again tomorrow night. have a great night. >>> paul ryan takes it to the streets and gets fact checked. it's now morning in australia and the planes are back over the water for day 15 of this search. >> lost contact with a plane bound for beijing.

this is not an obituary for the head of the westboro baptist church. dead at the age of 84. there's not going to be a funeral for him. let him be remembered as someone who did bring out the best in people and provided cruelty that ended up being a very, very clarifying thing for all of us. >>> weekends with alex witt starts now. >>> breaking news this hour. another possible image of airplane debris reported. this time, the chinese government says they have a satellite picture of remnants of mh 370. a short time ago, they reported this news. he says he got that words from the chinese ambassador. where is the debris and how old is the satellite image? good morning, everybody. welcome to weekends with alex witt. i'm in for alex today. here is what happened over an hour ago in kuala lumpur. th

we left the southern baptist convention when they ordained officials that women had to be subservient to their husbands and couldn't serve in the chirp or chaplain in a military. in a southern baptist convention university, the seminary they call them, a woman is not permitted to teach a classroom if a boy is a student in the class. you can find a verse in the bible that says that. so we left for that reason. >> rose: you say you wanted to encourage women and girls including those not abused to speak out more forcefully. it's imperative those who do speak out are protected from retaliation. >> that's right. let's just take two examples in the united states. the two of the most reveafd institutions in america. first of all our great university system. the most horrible abuse of women and girls in america is in the university campuses. and the reason for it is that the rapist, and quite often serial rapists, when they get on the campus they're impervious o trial if they rape girls. deans are reluctant to encourage a woman who has been raped to report her attacker and have him brought to

it was right in front of a boy's and girls club in front of the baptist church. >> the activities they do, and it's going to make it safer for people who are coming to our church for worship service. >> even last may somebody attacked a woman who had just left at the baptist church. >>> immigration will be stalled but a new obama policy will be extending it to many. they say it is long overdue but they are not happy with the way the obama administration went over the heads of congress. it came as the u.s. citizen and immigration services policy memorandum was due and and they say they do not need approval. >>> it is more than 1600 acres of land. the president will add it stored at the public lands for the national monument. it is slated to house a plan and now it becomes a tourist attraction. >>> federal parks topped last year's lists of the most visited spots. the golden gate bridge includes most popular spots such as virginia and it's a top draw among the more than 400 popular sites. it is helping them shoot to the top of the list. the fall season is typically the best season in the

a father, a veteran and a baptist minister. at age 90 just five days before he dice he comes out as gay to his grandson. and his grandson tells us about the deeply personal journey after learning much his grandfather's credit secret. >> i'm grant, 27 years old, my project the family connection is a memorial installation in honor of my grandfather, jim renberg. just under four months before my grandpa jim passed away he came out to me as a gay man. this is after a lifetime where he worked as a counterintelligence officer in world war ii. served as a baptist minister and had a 65-year marriage to my grandma doris. so the news of that revelation was incredibly meaningful for me because i'm a gay man as well. this past year i had the opportunity to marry the love of my life, bradford. our conversation played out over two afternoons. i saw him lean forward in his wheelchair and grip my knee. as tight as he could. and i saw tears factually down his face, a-- falling down his us face as he watched this public, legal celebration of my

the founder by the west bureau baptist church has died. that story and more from across america for us. >> tony, the head of the controversial west bureau baptist church passed away today at the age of 84. phelps was known for leading the hate filled protest against gay rights at the funerals of watt veterans he believes that the death of soldiers were god's punishment for tolerance of homosexuality. in oklahoma two tea parties accused of killing an australian baseball blare have pleaded not guilty. prosecutors say michael jones and chancy luna gunned down chris lane as he was jogging. another teen deft agreed to testify against jones, the charges against him were reduced. the trial is set for august. that means the state will be able to carry out death sentences. but correction officials will not say where they bought the new drugs they say it's to protect the safety of it's new supplier. also, in texas, police have come across what they describe as the biggest human smuggling ring in recent memory. they found 115 people inside the stash

this is in a baptist church in kyrgyzstan. >> kyrgyzstan? >> yeah. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> oh, my god. >> is that the sweetest -- >> that was awesome. >> i'm in awe of that. >> how old? >> she looks 3 years old, 3 or 4 years old. >> that was awesome. kyrgyzstan. >> you think you know a country. >> i think it is so cool we can get video from kyrgyzstan and play it on our show. >> did you know women put more effort into looking good for their friends than their partners. do you think that's true? >> i think if you've been with your partner for a long time, they stop complimenting you and your friends always go, oh, rl, i like that dress or those earrings, so you spend more time. >> bad though in a way, don't you think? >> well -- guys often don't notice. you get your haircut and you walk in and they're like, hi, they're, like, hey. i colored it, i did everything, i was in the salon for four hours and your friend goes, oh, my gosh, did you get a trim. >> it is lighter. much more detail. >> the average woman spends 50 minutes getting ready for a girl's night

the founder of the west bureau baptist church dies today. more on that story and other headlines. >> reverend fred felp senior, the head of the west bureau baptist church, passed away today at the age f o84. he was known for lebaneseing the hate filled protest against gay rights as the funerals of war veterans. he believed the deaths of soldiering fighting in iraq were god's punishment for tolerance of homo sexuality. texas has secure add new batch of lethal drugs that will allow the state to continue to execute detrain mates but they will not release any information about where the new drugs came from. prison officials are highway patrolling to get a new ruling to keep the sup player information confidential. police have come across what they describe as the biggest human smuggling ring in recent memory. they say they found 115 people living in filth inside a stash house. it's a site that has become too common in the area. >> they are kept hungry, thirsty, and barefoot. 115 migrants from honduras, el salvador, guatemala, and mexico, who had

carter left the southern baptist convention because of the position on women. you've been critical of the catholic church, but you've communicated with pope francis. >> i have. i think he is a great leader, and i have hopes for him. i visited pope john paul ii, and i found almost complete inflexion ability. i didn't pursue it in an uncomfortable way, but i wrote pope francis a letter describing some of the issues in my book and asked help with them to help prevent and minimize the abuse of women and girls. i didn't ask him to change the position on catholic priests. he wrote a very nice letter back. he said he was convinced that the future role of women in the catholic church needed to be strengthened, and i noticed last week he appointed a committee of eight people to minimize or decrease the abuse of children by priests. and four of those eight were women. which is a very wonderful thing to do. >> i want to get to a couple of current affairs questions. we're seeing this terrible controversy in crimea, the russian now have tens of thousands of troops on the bo

carter left the southern baptist convention because of positions on women. you have been critical with the catholic church but communicated with pope francis. >> i have. i think he's a great leader and i have great hopes for him. i met with pope john ii, i found almost complete inflexibility there. i wrote pope francis a letter describing issues in my book and asking him to help with them to prevent, minimize the abuse of women and girls. i didn't ask him to change the click position on women priests for instance. he wrote me a very nice letter back and he said that he was convinced that a future role of women in the catholic church needed to be strengthened and would be. he appointed a committee of eight people to decrease the abuse of women by priest and four of those eight were women, which is a very wonderful thing to do. >> i want to get to a couple of current affair questions that we're seeing this terrible can't recovery in crimea. >> i don't think there was anything that would have prevented put tune from taking crimea. most of the crimean people agr

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. ~ amos and more importantly i've served as senior pastor of the historic third baptist church for 38 years. i rise to bid you to consider that lang aston hughes once said, i square to the lord i still can't see why democracy means everybody but me. this commission has gone through a democratic process, has done an investigation, and the majority vote was that this matter would be dropped. and i wonder what lens some might be looking through to see a different view rather than democracy. i have parishionerses who live in bayview hunters point, honorable persons who served this city well. and they are vitally concerned about what's going on regarding this matter. it is excessive. it is pushing an issue that's a red herring, they appear to think, and i would plead with you today, let's major in major things and not minor things and go on with what this commission is supposed to be doing to make sure that you're doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly with whatever might be your supreme being or principle. [cheering and applauding] >>> yes, my name is charlie walker and i listened

suzy it's only fitting that i start by ceding any time to g l hostage highs the administrator at the baptist church, i visit you up here to speak >> good morning and welcome to downtown bayview. it is a great pleasure and honor to be here this morning arrest it's a pleasure to see so many faces in different venues. i've seen you before but not collectively. bayview is changing we're in an oasis in the middle of a desert from being open the advisory committee to talking to dr. burk to releasing what trauma was and i didn't have it. we are changing the world. i say we because they came to the community and asked us what did we need what's trauma. the first time couple of committee meetings we went through trauma because the people they had there had been traumatized their kids had been traumatized and their husbands and we look at trauma today when i talk to kids and i have the school program and their numb to it if you saw your mother beat or your uncle shot or your brother beat up you've seen death three or four times before you get to be 6-year-old you can't concentrate in school how do we

at the baptist church in darrington, isaac hall was there with his wife and three young children.a week ago saturday, the land slide blocked the road just in front of him. how deep was the mud. >> if you step out, you would go right in. >> reporter: he was warned it was too dangerous to help. >> if you got somebody hurt, that's it right there. >> reporter: he worked his way across the mud and debris to a four year old boy who was all alone. what was the boy experiencing. >> he was freaked out, in tears and freezing cold. i went up to him and comforted him and started digging him out. >> reporter: a helicopter came up above them. isaac lifted jacob spillers to safety. >> i was calling for his mom. come to find out his mom made it, i guess. so not good. >> reporter: the boy's father, two brothers and a sister were lost. at the oso community church, pastor bob reith says he extended the tragedy here is sinking. >> we're beginning to see grief and that's a long term thing. working together because there's so much to be done. this whole year will be a year of recovery. >> reporter: to

. >>> mark baptiste frophotograph some of the most influential celebrities.arc lamont hill talked to him about his work, his love and his passion. >> you're the hottest photographer right now. everybody is talking about you. how does that feel? >> so unbelievable. i mean, i'm deeply humbled and to be in that same phrase, but i'll take it. to me, it's work. it's a day in the office. >> this isn't a normal office. coming through your office, people like jessica elba, yoko o ono. >> yeah. >> you have a long list of people. how did you get started with this? >> i started in ninth grade. for my mother, photography is not a career. it's like everybody got a camera. well, she was alive today, well, everybody has a camera, everybody has a cell phone. yeah. i walked into the classroom in ninth grade. i knew that's what i wanted to do for the rest of my life. automatically, i knew that's what i wanted to do. >> you picked up the camera and you knew. >> it wasinstantly. one thing led to the other. i went to paris for the collection and i covered the collection for a few

the two were walking along lee street northeast outside antioch baptist church when they were gunnedt before 8:00 saturday night. >> just heard both of their voices thursday night, both of them thursday night, just a hurting feeling right now. >> the brothers were supposed to be meeting their sister for her birthday celebration but never made it. the siblings were all very close, they had lost their mother a while ago and very recently their father. but the two brothers who were killed were inseparable. two brothers, the best of friends, inseparable in life and tragically in death. >> two real playful, like to be outside, loved women, loved women. >> reporter: andre bryant is the oldest and would always look after his brothers. >> every time i was around them, i prepared to them, i be talking, i be talking like do the right thing, get on the right track, you know. jason started it, he got on the right track and this happened. >> reporter: while they are in a state of shock, the family is seeking justice and wonders who would want to hurt them. >> two good guys, you know. two good guy

presbyterian, american baptist, united church of christ, lutheran. and then, starr king, which is a school that represents a multiple tradition. >> that is great. we will come back to that. it is such an exciting place. maybe a lot of people don't know about it. >> yes. it is a well kept secret. >> please join us as we talk about gtu. >>> welcome back to mosaic. we have been speaking to dr. reiss potterveld about graduate theological union. you heard some of it. tell us a little more about that. why more people don't know about this great place. >> it is well-known in the theological world of course. part of the problem with the gtu is that it is not tied to any particular religious organization or denomination. we still don't have a natural bridge into the knowledge in the churches themselves. but an awful lot of the graduates have gone out to teach at colleges and universities. they serve in the nonprofit sector as leaders. they served in the churches. and so within the theological world, it is well-known. but if you stop somewhere on the street, e