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michael gerson gets the last word. thanks to all of you. we'll be right back. >> dickerson: the hope is come to town and washington is going to come to a halt. the streets will close and crowds will greet i am everywhere he goes. he is going to interrupt the daily flow of thing, at least logistically. politics is not likely to be" ripped, though. the pope will address a joint session of congress on thursday. one member is boycotting because he disagrees with the position on climate change. those wishing to defund planned parenthood will take comfort from the pope's message which has no room for abortion. the excesses of capitalism will ruffle a lot of those same people. same sex marriage supporters have already been protesting the church's position in advance of his visit. the pomp and ceremony will be enormous in washington then later in philadelphia and new york. the pope will travel in his special car and receive the beaming faces of the most powerful people in america. donald trump might very well be jealous. but as leader of the fractu

michael gerson is a columnist in with the "washington post" and also works with the one foundation on alleviation of disease and poverty globally. there are two categories of cases we'll talk about today. the first are the more traditional types of cases in the religion field the accommodation cases and they often involve minority religion and the accommodation of a minority relidge glon a majority society. there's another category of case which are very much in the news which is what i would call religious accommodation 2.0 and those include cases like the hobby lobby against burwell case and the cases that are now growing out of the states. since that's in the news, that's very much on everybody's mind and since we have with counsel on both sides of the case with us here today we'll ask them to start off by telling us about what has happened in this area since hobby lobby against burwell and i'll start off with christina ariega. >> so you may wonder why my hair is a little messy. greg and i already got at in the the green room. [ laughter ] and i've been specifically asked to talk a

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michael gerson writes, trump declares war on america's demogography. far as trump's lead in movement, it is headed in the direction of a more european form of secular nationalist right wing popularism. were trump to succeed the gop would be an anti-immigration party of the white working class, before he fales as he certainly will, americans may long for the good old days of the religious rite. the alternatives for the gop to accommodate demographic and cultural changes within the boundaries of a principled conservatism, the goal would be to change the demographic playing field. this would require crafting a working class appeal that does not use hispanic immigrants as foils t. rise of trump makes all of it more difficult. why does it make it more difficult, though? why? why can't each candidate stick to their own morals and approach? >> i actually think, gene robinson, i think it gives other candidates like jeb a great opportunity to provide a contrast, but if you are going to do that, you've got to do it in the strongest way possible. you can't be mil