it is not phoney religiousity. it is not take this archaic verbiage and we believe we are a chronicy deity. we need something archaic in our wooden something language. that, my friends, is not prayer. that is a lot of pious srkpiou. pious baloney is not god, it is scripture. imagine if we talked to god that way. we don't try to fool god with phoney religiousity. this goes to the difference between religion and religiousity and a real faith in god. we know people who go to church but don't know religion. real faith and prayer is not religious. it's from the heart, it's honest, it's real. i had the privilege of writing about two men whose real lives illustrate the difference between what real religiousity and serving god is. let me tell you personally how i came to see the difference between these two utterly different things. first of all, i'm the son of european immigrants who met with the early class. i'm thankful my parents are here this morning. please don't get up. my dad is greek, hence, my surname mataxis. my

avoiding phoney religiousity, listening to him. this is especially important right now when we're facing some big challenges as a nation. our economy is making progress as we recover from the worst crisis in three generations, but far too many families are still struggling to find work or make the mortgage, pay for college or in some cases, even buy food. our men and women in uniform have made us safer and more secure, and we are eternally grateful to them, but war and suffering and hardship still remain in too many corners of the globe, and a lot of those men and women who we celebrate on veteran's day and memorial day come back and find that when it comes to finding a job or getting the kind of care that they need, we're not always there the way we need to be. it's absolutely true that meeting these challenges requires sound decision making, requires smart policies. we know the part of living in a pluralistic society means our pure religious beliefs alone can't help every challenge we face, but in our moments of prayer, i'm remin

is not phony religious yossi -- religiousi religiousity.at we believe you are old-fashioned and easily annoyed and even crankier deity. and to get your magnificent attention wheat must employ wooden and religious sounding language. that is not rare. that is to use current terminology a lot of pious baloney. who said that? a believe it was nancy pelosi. someone on the couch. i can't remember. the point is pious baloney is not where. is not based on the god of scripture. imagine talking to jesus that way. he would almost laugh at you. imagine if we talked to him that way. prayers from the heart, don't try to fool got. adam and eve friday with a fig leaf and it did not go so well. this gets to my theme. the difference between religion and religiousity and real fit the. people go to church who do not show the love of jesus and people who know scripture's but use it as a weapon. real for and real faith is not religion. it is from the heart. it is real. a a privilege of writing about two men but personal wilberforce and bar harbor demonstrate wha

about the fact that many people don't understand that their beliefs actually mirror most other religiouses who worship one god. >> it's not that their mean spirited, it's not that their prejudice e ed intentionally, b there's this unintended bias, and we run into a lot of that. >> reporter: they say they have no doubt that the decision will go in their favor when the supervisors announce it next week. live in contra costra county, traci grant, nbc bay area news. >> traci, thank you. >>> prop 8 is going back to the courtroom. opponents want more judges to reconsider the ruling made two weeks ago. on february 7th, a three-judge panel voted 2 to 1 to strike down prop 8, which defines marriage in california as only between a man and a woman. but now supporters who put prop 8 on the ballot four years ago want a larger panel to review the decision. there are more than two dozen active judges serving on the appeals court. for now, same-sex marriages continue to remain on hold, at least until the court decides to accept or reject the re-hearing request. >>> well, after several high-profile public

avoiding phony religiousity, listening to him. this is especially important right now when we're facing some big challenges as a nation. our economy is making progress as we recover from the worst crisis in three generations, but far too many families are still struggling to find work, make the mortgage, pay for college or in some cases even buy food. our men and wimp omen in unifor have made us safer and secure. we are eternally grateful to them. war, suffering, hardships still remain in too many corners of the globe, and a lot of those men and women who we celebrate on veterans day, memorial day come back and find that when it comes to finding a job or getting the kind of care that they need, we're not always there the way we need to be. it's absolutely true that meeting these challenges requires sound decision making, requires smart policies. we know that part of living in a pluralistic society means that our personal religious beliefs alone can't dictate our response to every challenge we face, but in my moments of prayer i'm

peter upon this rock, we shall build the church so we said in that sense, invoking the memory and religiousity of this church, he said yes, he that he would be up there with bruce springsteen or mick jagger or lady gaga or folks like that but he understands his importance and i think the catholic church has pointed him in the direction of stepping out in terms of evangilization, bringing new catholics into the fold and evangilization to the community of faith, bringing people together, christians, jews, muslims in the spirit of faith and in the spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood. he understands his role. it was a big role. >> when you were just speaking, we flashed a picture of your wife blanche and daughter veronica who were in attendance. and had a little audience with the new cardinal. >> they'll be embarrassed. the people are so nice here in rome and really is important in terms of reaffirming my faith to see this and to meet so many great people here in rome. and the great people here at fox in rome. mario and mateo, they're the rock of fox in rome so it's a wonderful thing. it's nice t