>> right. >> and pastor easley is here as well. we heard your explanation. i know the goal of christianity is to be christ-like. do you think jesus would have kicked those boys out?

pastor earnest easley explained his decision. >> boys in there in a tent that are sexually attractive to other boys whose hormones are going off the walls, something's going to happen. >> pastor easley got a standing ovation from his congregation when he kicked out troop 204, but he also ruffled some feathers, including those of a nearby house of worship, which in response posted this marquee outside, welcoming the boy scouts to meet there instead. we interviewed that pastor from the one world center in marietta, georgia, along with ernest easley, the pastor of the baptist church. and asked if the goal of christianity was to be christian-like, wouldn't jesus have kicked out the boy scouts? >> trying to be christ-like is a challenge today. i think about when some guys tried to trick jesus up.

>> right. >> and pastor easley is here as well. we heard your explanation. i know the goal of christianity is to be christ-like. do you think jesus would have kicked those boys out? >> you know trying to be christ-like is a challenge these days. i think about when guys tried to trick jesus up, they brought a girl, a woman caught in adultery, jesus confronted her with her sin. he didn't condone it. he confronted it. he didn't say keep on doing what you're doing, but because he loved her, he said go and sin no more. >> but do you think he would have kicked these boy scouts out? do you think that's the right decision? >> i know this, as a bible-believing church, roswell street church, we're not going to align ourselves in a formal capacity with any outside group that openly accepts and affirms moral practices that violate god's word. >> reverend cy, you welcomed them to your church. why? >> one world is an intrafaith community. we welcome many. we focus on what's at the hat of the world's great religions. and what we believe is primarily at the heart of those r

finally -- and leon always making sure everything goes exactly right -- the leg counsel staff, miss easley and the others, they worked 24/7 to turn these ideas into the 1,000-page bill as has been remarked over and over again. they needed that many pages because it was so complicated, but they did a great job as well. once again to my staff, from mike lynch all the way through, i think, as every member probably thinks i have the best staff on the hill. it's the best staff i have had in 39 years as a legislator, and without you, we couldn't do it. so tonight, we're going to celebrate the going away and the ascension of one of our old-time staffers, and we'll all have a great time together, but i am blessed. i'm blessed to have a family, my wife and daughters, who put up with me through thick and thin, and i'm blessed to have two other families, my senate colleagues, who i do regard as my family, and my staff, who i also regard as my family. so although i'm not irish, i have got a big, big, big family, and they're the greatest, all three. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor and i tha

as you know, people acquiring firearms can with the gun show loophole and other exceptions easley ofrearm without a criminal background check. what difference would be universal or virtually universal that checkmate? >> on the asset it means fewer persons who have the characteristics and possession of guns. >> on the issue of the telephone records, you've indicated how the acquisition of all telephone records helps to protect us from terrorism. is it true that this data can be used for things other than terrorism? >> no. >> you can't use of a criminal investigation? >> no. >> u.k. is with the purpose of the section 10 for a wiretap the purpose and there may be some other purpose? >> and it's a question commissary. >> under section one of four county have to show a significant purpose of the surveillance to obtain foreign intelligence information with the change in the law for the purpose. if it's a significant purpose that would leave open the idea that there is another purpose for getting the information. when i asked attorney general gonzales at what other purpose you could be usin