my name is rick scarborough. myself along with several others who were here are the originators of the marriage pledge. these two lawyers actually wrote the pledge. there are copies available for everyone. they have to retrieve them if you would like to see one. the website, within marriage.org. you can read the pledge come to see the key signers. as of yesterday morning we have about 6000 signed the pledge. we've been adding several hundred a day and all about will be discussing the course the course of the presentation today. we had two esteemed members of the press conference who could not be here because of the one case been out of the country. they both submitted a printed copy of our position. [inaudible] the high impact leadership coalition. another, rabbi spero -- [inaudible] let me say that again in the microphone for those that are watching. we are passing out to hand out spirit won by jackson in europe today who wanted to give you his perspective on this. his tremendous black american leader, pastor of

my name is rick scarborough. myself and several others here are the originators of the marriage pledge. these two lawyers wrote the pledge. there are copies available for everyone -- they were stacked outside. they have a website defendmarriage.org. you can read the pledge come to see the key signers. as of yesterday morning we have about 6000 signed the pledge. we've been adding several hundred a day and all about will be discussing the course the course of the presentation today. we had two esteemed members of the press conference who could not be here because of the one case been out of the country. they both submitted a printed copy of our position. [inaudible] the high impact leadership coalition. another, rabbi spero -- [inaudible] let me say that again in the microphone for those that are watching. we are passing out to hand out spirit won by jackson in europe today who wanted to give you his perspective on this. his tremendous black american leader, pastor of a local church in the d.c. area and a champion

my name is rick scarborough. myself, along with several others who are here most especially matt st. stavor are the originators of the marriage pledge. there are copies available for everybody. they were stacked outside. defend marriage.org where you can both read the pledge, see the key signers we now have as of yesterday morning over 6,000 who signed the pledge. we have been adding several hundred a day of late and all of that will be discussed in the course of the presentations today. we had two esteemed members of the press coverage who could not be here because of the -- one case being out of the country. they've both submitted a printed copy of -- of their position, one is harry jackson in the d.c. area. another by rabbi spare row, president of the caucus for america. we'll pass that around as well. [inaudible conversations] >> led me say that again in the microphone for those watching. we're passing owl two handouts, one by bishop harry jackson who is in europe. a tremendous black american leader. pastor o

: my name for those watching his rick scarborough come on the front of vision america which we found vision america.org. >> if there's any questions, just two things i wanted to just point out because it's a question that comes up, but the first thing is not as much pleasure that comes up but as a policy matter, as a policy matter, same-sex marriage says that the highest level of government sends a message that children don't need moms and dads, the two women and two men are the equivalent of a mom and a day. it forever deprives children of ever having the opportunity of a mother and a father. had the recently wrote and i think the article was in federalist.org, that she was raised in a home with two moms. she's now married to a man come has children, and she says her heart ached when she was in the home with her moms come and she loved her moms, not speaking evil against her moms, but she said she was deprived of her father and she was never able to have that opportunity. another she is married and she sees her own husband interacting with the children she realizes exactly

. >> my name for those watching his rick scarborough come on the front of vision america which we found vision america.org. >> if there's any questions, just two things i wanted to just point out because it's a question that comes up but the first thing is not as much pleasure that comes up but as a policy matter, as a policy matter, same-sex marriage says that the highest level of government sends a message that children don't need moms and dads, the two women and two men are just announced of the equivalent of a mom and a day. it forever deprives children of ever having the opportunity of a mother and a father. had the recently wrote and i think the article was in federalist.org, that she was raised in a home with two moms. she's now married to a man come has children, and she says her heart aches when she was in the home with her moms come and she loved her moms not speaking evil against her moms, but she said she was deprived of her father and she was never able to have that opportunity. another she is married and she sees her own husband interacting interact with the children she r

my name is rick scarborough and myself and others who are here, matthew staver and mr. jackson are the original authors, there are copies you can see one if you'd like. you can read the pledge and see the key signers and over 6000 have signed the pledge. all of that will be discussed in the course of the presentations today. we had to members that could not be here because of one case that we had and they both submitted a copy of their position and that includes mr. jackson. [inaudible] >> another by the president of the caucus for american [inaudible] [inaudible] >> let me say that again into the microphone for those that are watching. we are passing out to handouts, one by mr. jackson who is in europe today who wanted to give you his perspective on this, he is a tremendous black american leader. pastor of the local church in the dc area and a champion for the cause of christ. and then also we have a handout going out by rabbi rj spiro. he is president of the american caucus and here is part of the remarks as well the first presenter will be doctor james dobson who mad

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