The Supreme Court rules in favor of a gay couple in their case against a Christian baker who refused to bake a cake for a same-sex couple's wedding reception because of his religious objections to gay marriage. What does that mean for the rest of us? Also, the latest from inside the Capitol on what's going on with health care.
00:01:23.640Well, I'm going to start with some really good news.
00:01:27.480The Supreme Court made some monumental rulings yesterday,
00:01:30.880and agreed to hear another that will decide whether religious freedom is still a core principle in the United States.
00:01:39.220But let's look at what they did do yesterday.
00:01:41.680The long-awaited showdown on religious freedom, as it applies to Christian bakers, florists, photographers,
00:01:47.900owners of wedding venues, and others who have been forced into participating in gay wedding ceremonies.
00:01:54.960We have a quick recap on this first ruling.
00:01:59.080There have been several of these incidences around the country,
00:02:02.620but the one that is going to be decided by the Supreme Court involves a case in Colorado.
00:02:08.800Now, in Colorado, the lower court ruled that Jack Phillips,
00:02:14.180he is the owner of a place called the Masterpiece Cake Shop,
00:02:18.220violated Colorado's public accommodations law.
00:02:21.560Now, the public accommodation law means that you can't refuse service to customers based on things like race or sex or marital status or sexual orientation.
00:02:34.760Here's why you should care about this story.
00:02:37.320Freedom of religion, the freedom to exercise the dictates of our own conscience, is at stake.
00:02:44.460You may have to participate in compelled speech.
00:03:42.260Here are the things that we absolutely know.
00:03:44.720A gay couple, David Mullins and Charlie Craig, visited the Masterpiece Cake Shop in 2012 along with Craig's mother.
00:03:52.060They wanted to order a cake for their upcoming wedding reception.
00:03:54.940Now, Mullins and Craig planned to marry in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriages were legal at the time, and then hold the reception in Colorado.
00:04:06.100But Phillips said, I'm sorry, my religious beliefs, I can't make your wedding cake for a same-sex marriage.
00:04:14.280He said, there are other bakeries that will be happy to accommodate you.
00:04:17.800I just have these religious feelings that I cannot move past.
00:04:21.880Now, here's something important in the fact category.
00:04:27.080Gay marriage was still prohibited by Colorado law in 2012, meaning that the Colorado Civil Rights Commission determined that Phillips' action violated state law,
00:04:38.940even though gay marriage violated Colorado state law at the time.
00:04:44.340So, they're both apparently breaking the law.
00:04:47.620Even so, the ruling was upheld in Colorado state courts.
00:05:41.180This is what this story means to me, what you should take away.
00:05:45.320If this were the other way around, if a gay baker were being asked by a Christian couple to make a wedding cake that said marriage can only be between a man and a woman,
00:05:57.200there is no way the state of Colorado would be forcing the gay baker to make that cake.
00:06:03.420If the baker were Muslim, try to imagine the scenario where the court would be forcing him to deny the tenets of Islam.
00:06:13.540But because Christianity is our major religion, it seems as though it is perfectly acceptable to limit, discriminate against, and totally disregard the convictions of those who practice it.
00:06:27.720Forget about the oppression that is happening in Islamic states.
00:06:40.860We are a bigger oppressor as Christians.
00:06:44.180Now, how can you possibly violate the First Amendment by forcing the baker to participate in something that is a violation of his religious convictions?
00:07:42.920In religious liberty, the Supreme Court made a ruling yesterday that flies in the face of the non-existent separation of church and state.
00:07:54.280This is a big win for people of faith.
00:07:59.820Until now, Christian-based abstinence organizations have been denied funding and pro-life organizations have been denied participation in governmental programs.
00:08:10.820While at the same time, an abortion bill, a mill like Planned Parenthood, will receive half a billion dollars a year in government spending.
00:08:26.120Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that the government cannot exclude churches and other faith-based organizations from secular government programs simply because they have a religious identity.
00:08:42.500This is a huge surprise because it means that reliable progressive judges, Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, both joined Kennedy, Roberts, Alito, Thomas, and our new judge, Neil Gorsuch.
00:09:05.200And they joined them on the side of the religious organizations.
00:09:08.700The case involved the state of Missouri denying a church a partial reimbursement grant for rubberized playground surface material made from recycled tires.
00:09:20.380And the reason why they rejected it is because the church runs the preschool, even though the only purpose of the grant program is to improve children's safety.
00:09:30.400It sounds like no big deal, but it is actually a very big deal.
00:09:35.540Thanks to that playground, Christian organizations can no longer be discriminated against.
00:09:41.940It is a step towards restoring sanity and the constitutional principles.
00:09:46.780Now, me personally, I have a problem with a tax-exempt organization getting tax dollars.
00:09:57.840But I would say that about any organization, not just churches.
00:10:04.260This is, however, in my mind, overruled because it means that if you're Christian, you can get the same services as everyone else.
00:10:16.780The court has taken a step towards ensuring that you, you and your children, will be allowed to continue to exercise your faith the way you see fit and you are not excluded from the rest of society.
00:10:29.980This is a rare victory for not Christians, but the Constitution, and strengthens a core American principle.
00:10:38.800There was another case involving a same-sex couple.
00:10:42.200Two female couples petitioned the Supreme Court to review their case, which fought the Arkansas Department of Health Insurance or issuance of birth certificates, bearing only the birth mother's name and not the female spouse.
00:10:57.680It would have said birth mother and then, you know, the spouse of the father.
00:11:05.140This is something that is always done, even if the father isn't the father.
00:11:18.400It's just being held back, not allowing to have a female spouse.
00:11:24.540They ruled yesterday and adhered to a provision of the Arkansas law, which was rejected by a trial court, kept in place by the Arkansas Supreme Court.
00:11:37.280The high court reversed and remanded the Arkansas high court's judgment.
00:11:41.820They found that until now, opposite-sex couples were being treated differently than same-sex couples in similar situations.
00:11:50.560Now, here's what's interesting about this.
00:11:53.800Neil Gorsuch issued a blistering dissent from the Supreme Court's decision that Justice Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito both joined.
00:12:03.860So, it appears as though Gorsuch is ruling in the way he was advertised to rule, conservatively.
00:12:13.280We wondered if he would do this with social issues.
00:12:28.520According to the courts and, in large part, the mindset of the American people,
00:12:32.460gay couples have all of the same benefits and the same rights as opposite-sex partners.
00:12:37.940There is no longer any differentiation.
00:12:40.040Your children are growing up in a world now where it is possible, if not likely, that parts of the Bible could be considered hate speech soon.
00:12:52.160Now, Gunn writes, strangely, the court refused to hear an important California case whether the Second Amendment gives people the right to carry handguns outside of their home for self-defense,
00:13:03.400including concealed carry when open carry is forbidden by state law.
00:13:08.620Clarence Thomas, again, Neil Gorsuch, dissented from the court's decision not to hear the case.
00:13:31.440They reserved to all Americans the right to bear arms for self-defense.
00:13:36.040I do not think that we should stand idly by while a state denies its citizen that same right, particularly when their very lives may depend on it, end quote.
00:13:48.080If you've been holding your collective breath on Neil Gorsuch, wondering if he's going to turn out like Thomas or Scalia,
00:13:56.960or he'd be co-opted by the leftist on the bench and wind up like Souter and Kennedy,
00:14:02.800the early results, but we have some interesting facts about this later on in the broadcast.
00:14:08.880The early results show that Gorsuch is everything as advertised.
00:21:59.260First of all, obviously, you know, five Congresses from now, we cannot count on them to maintain these cuts to Medicaid.
00:22:08.260I mean, and again, you know, part of the cuts to Medicaid come with an offset of increased payments from the exchanges, which is what we typically refer to as Obamacare.
00:22:18.980So, it really isn't, it doesn't, these are, a lot of these are just partisan lies by people who want to defeat the bill or that people want to praise the bill.
00:22:31.660The important part about that, that everybody needs to know when you're talking to your friends today and they say, oh, 24 million people are going to lose insurance.
00:22:38.180The most important part about that is the vast majority of those people are going to lose insurance because they are not going to have someone come into their home and rip their insurance policy up and take it away.
00:22:47.880They are going to choose not to sign up.
00:22:51.100These are people who are forced into signing up now because of the fee.
00:22:54.640They are signing up only because of the fee.
00:22:57.200And when the fee goes away, the Obamacare individual mandate fee, they will choose not to purchase insurance anymore.
00:23:03.800That is not the same as taking it from them.
00:23:06.200I want to, I want to really make sure that everybody understands the, the individual mandate happened because if you don't have the mandate and you understand the free market system, insurance isn't insurance.
00:23:22.760If I can go and buy insurance, if I go to the doctor and he says, you have cancer.
00:23:27.880And I say, crap, I don't have any insurance.
00:23:37.020And even though you've just been diagnosed with cancer and have let your insurance lapse and haven't had it, maybe even in your entire life, the American people are here to bail you out.
00:23:53.680That's a guaranteed health program that everybody gets it.
00:23:59.260Now, the problem with that is you're still running a sham operation.
00:24:05.740And instead of saying we have a single payer system that everybody just pays extra tax and we all have insurance and we don't ever have to worry about signing up.
00:24:16.600What we're doing is we're taking the free market and telling it, you cannot make a profit.
00:24:23.600You can't, you must take all of these risks.
00:24:27.180And by the way, it's not that they just have to take you.
00:24:30.960They cannot raise anyone's rate because they've let their insurance elapse.
00:24:47.460And this is the idea of when we say we're all in this together, it means that all of us, all of us have to pay something in.
00:24:58.840So whether it's, you know, it's the widow's mite, whether it is $10 a month, but you've paid something in, you pay it in.
00:25:11.720But what's happening is all of the paperwork, all of the, all of the teams of attorneys, all of the teams of people to make sure that paperwork is in is sucking up all of the money that should be used for health insurance.
00:25:27.720Now, let me tell you what's happened because of it.
00:25:32.900You were told that if you do this, you would get $2,500 decrease.
00:25:40.920You, every family in America would save $2,500 at least in the first year alone.
00:25:51.060Instead, we have had a 140% increase in your premium.
00:27:55.200You're being asked to believe Mitch McConnell.
00:28:00.880Over people like the guys that got in and, you know, the Mike Lees, the Ted Cruises, the Rand Pauls, the people who have stood by their principles and never wavered.
00:28:16.660Those people are being blamed for this.
00:28:50.460And so the parliamentarian would not allow them to fully repeal Obamacare.
00:28:57.700There are two provisions that have to be repealed.
00:29:00.840What they did is they repealed the mandate, but they didn't repeal that you have that anybody with pre-existing conditions or cancer and they find it today.
00:29:13.360They don't have a pre-existing condition.
00:29:15.660See, when we hear pre-existing conditions, we think of people like my daughter who has had cerebral palsy her whole life and is struggling and trying to get her on insurance is crazy.
00:29:27.400What we're also talking about are those people who are irresponsible.
00:29:38.000Some are irresponsible that are like, I'm not paying for it when I pay for insurance when I can just go get it when I'm really, really sick.
00:29:45.020I'm young and then I'm in a car accident and I don't have insurance because I don't need it.
00:30:18.780We're getting rid of that, but we're not getting rid of the insurance company.
00:30:24.660You have to pay for that person who didn't have insurance and that you cannot raise the rates if they've let their insurance policy lapse.
00:30:40.780Those are the two drivers that affect you.
00:30:45.120Those two things are the reason you've had 140% increase.
00:30:51.080Without those two, insurance rates will go down and you'll be able to afford your insurance again.
00:31:00.240With those two in and the mandate taken, your insurance rate is going to go up faster than it has under Obamacare.
00:31:11.580To me, this is what they're doing is they're blaming the parliamentarian.
00:31:18.020I want you to understand that is an absolute 100% total lie.
00:31:24.880The leadership of the GOP under Mitch McConnell have lied to those senators who were part of the committee who were saying, look, we want to work this out.
00:33:52.640And it is the usual suspects, unfortunately, because we are so split and we are so many of us are feeling we need to protect the president because the press is lying.
00:34:09.140That we're not looking at the other hand, which is controlled by Mitch McConnell.
00:34:15.140Our sponsor, this half hour, is Casper Sleep.
00:34:21.600I am out in Los Angeles and I'm staying at an Airbnb and they have three pictures of Obama in the house.
00:34:31.580And so, I mean, it's, I can barely, I really can barely sleep tossing and turning.
00:34:39.080I've had to turn the pictures the other way on the house.
00:34:43.180Actually, I did try that and they've, I'm not kidding you, they have glued them to the wall.
00:50:44.820And yet, Glenn, they always dress it up, when you listen to guys like Bernie Sanders, as populism.
00:50:51.520They always dress it up as popular sovereignty.
00:50:54.040The people deserve, and the people need, and I stand for the people.
00:50:57.680And yet, it always involves centralized government.
00:51:02.520It always involves a government-oriented program.
00:51:06.860And so, the point is that this war on our founding, this war on the Declaration, this war on the Constitution, separation of powers, is the greatest disaster to these people.
00:51:18.980Because they need a centralized authority that imposes its will.
00:51:22.300So we can get to the end of the rainbow.
00:51:24.260So, that's why you see the attacks on the Constitution.
00:51:28.540But what I put in the book are the exact quotes.
00:51:30.780These people smearing these principles, attacking the Declaration, attacking the Constitution.
00:51:36.340They call, the individualism that you and I and our listeners believe in, they call old individualism.
00:51:48.300For liberty to you and me, that means this circle of liberty around us that Aristotle talked about, and to Tocqueville talked about, and Locke talked about.
00:51:55.600This circle of liberty that the government may not penetrate, and the extent to which the government is involved in our liberty and needs to intervene, it must not seek to do so to dominate us.
00:54:55.700Mark, you said on your radio show about the Senate health care bill that the two parties have abandoned capitalism.
00:55:03.580It goes really to the point of your book.
00:55:05.840If we don't, if we abandon our principles, we never get the country back that we remember as a kid, all the good parts without all the bad parts.
00:55:16.620Because we are, I mean, the Republicans are abandoning all of that.
00:55:50.120We have to get back to our own souls and our own hearts and our own belief systems.
00:55:55.720And it's going to take the citizenry to do that.
00:55:58.520And, you know, I include a letter in this book from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams.
00:56:04.600In which he looks back at Rome and he basically says, Cicero, Brutus, Cato, none of them could save Rome because the people lost their virtue.
00:56:14.700No system could be put in place to save them.
00:56:17.340What I'm saying is, we, the people, with our families, with our friends, at the grassroots, we don't need to run everything by Mitch McConnell or the public school system or whatever.
00:56:31.660We can have the discussions like the colonists did and so forth and so on at the dinner table at our restaurants and our churches and synagogues and so forth.
00:56:40.680But we can't have those discussions if we don't really know the nub of the matter.
00:58:04.400You know, guys, I'd like to kind of talk to you about what Mark was talking about.
00:58:09.720And can we go theoretical here for just a second on on his book?
00:58:17.120And he you know, he makes a really good case in his book of what we need to learn about progressivism and and what the answers are.
00:58:27.680And it is it is so good to see finally that progressivism is being known by its historic roots.
00:58:39.840I mean, if you remember on this program 10 years ago, we started talking about it and nobody cared about the historic roots.
00:58:45.180And we made the case for probably two years completely alone saying, no, no, no, the historic roots must be understood by the mass, not just the intellectuals.
00:58:57.300And and it is the disease or the cancer that is eating the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
00:59:07.300And as he points out in his new book, it was designed to be that openly designed to be that.
01:02:09.300And that's why you see degradation and so many shows and so many things that are produced by, you know, diehard progressive liberals.
01:02:19.600It can go to really horrible places, really dark, you know, and degrading places easy because there is no sanctity and degradation is left to go.
01:03:37.240We have stolen everyone else's history, everyone else's land.
01:03:43.000And we, as white men, and in particular, white European and mainly American men are the oppressor.
01:03:53.200So when you see things, the reason why they don't cry, you know, when they see soldiers come back, generally speaking, I hate to make this all so general, but generally speaking, the reason why they don't look at the troops the same way is because it's an American troop and Americans are seen as the oppressor.
01:04:16.580So when they leave the garbage on the ground, it's not because the global warming has become a religion.
01:04:24.680It's because they're trying to stop the end of oppression.
01:04:29.060They are trying to make sure that America is stopped.
01:04:35.140That's why they don't you don't hear them talking about China.
01:04:38.500China is by far the worst on the planet.
01:04:40.920And yet the smog is so bad, everybody's wearing masks and you can't see the skyline almost every day.
01:04:48.080And yet you have people like Al Gore saying China is ahead of us.
01:04:55.880So here's a book on liberty, and it's a book that is specifically aimed towards our tribe.
01:05:04.100And so the book works and the book works in its design.
01:05:08.380However, if you want to read, if you want any liberals to read that, it can't be designed to look like that because they see the American flag.
01:05:22.200They see Americanism and they assume Americanism is oppression and the flag and Americanism to them screams fascistic.
01:05:34.360It screams that this is this is something that is a populist nationalist kind of movement.
01:05:43.700And we have to find a way to communicate, not the way not in the in the in the instance here of Mark Levin, because what Mark Levin is doing is he's targeting another group.
01:05:55.980But when we want to target the left, we have to understand their sensibilities and we have to understand what they believe.
01:06:06.920You're never going to change their minds on much of this.
01:06:11.140You're never going to be able to move them unless we speak their language.
01:06:18.420They don't understand liberty except through the lens of the end of oppression.
01:06:27.920And oppression is caused by the white male American.
01:06:34.160So now, how do we make the case for the Constitution and liberty as we know it?
01:06:42.160When it was written by white male Americans who were also slave owners.
01:06:52.080They've set this up and built this perfectly.
01:06:55.800And I'm writing a book that may come out maybe in the fall, probably next year.
01:07:02.120And it is about an event that happened in 1959 that nobody knows about and is as important as the progressive movement.
01:07:11.300And it's something that nobody's ever discussed.
01:07:15.340We found this and we're like, wait a minute, what?
01:08:31.620I mean, you and you've made this point about your own books many times, I think, with going back to the old school real America days where they put a flag behind you.
01:08:41.680If you remember, your book has a farm, a farm and a barn behind you.
01:08:51.140They were like, it's got to have a farm with corn and a barn and a flag on it.
01:08:58.300And you at the time were in the wonderful farmland of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which really, I think, you know, so much grain is produced there.
01:09:58.940It's and it comes to the point of, you know, your brain essentially works as a your own press secretary to justify your initial decision.
01:10:06.740Your brain works as the Sean Spicer or the Jay Carney to justify whatever decision you made initially.
01:10:13.080And so if your initial decision was, I don't like that book because I don't like Mark Levin.
01:10:16.560I don't like Glenn Beck, the American flag.
01:10:18.520Oh, they're trying to jam patriotism down my mouth.
01:10:20.900It doesn't matter how good the arguments are inside.
01:10:23.300You're probably never going to come along unless you're really trying to consider and be, you know, really being nuanced and careful.
01:10:30.340If you are if you are a freak of human nature, I mean, you really we're talking about three percent of the population will go against their gut and the justification.
01:10:42.460It's it's almost impossible to do to the point of even even the people who study this as academics.
01:10:49.100Show no better record than the average person and being able to accomplish it.
01:10:52.640We're we are you know, I've really been studying as much as I can human behavior and and behavioral science because that's what got us here.
01:11:07.420Gang, what got us here was behavioral science and we have to use behavioral science back and nobody on the right even knows it.
01:11:17.380Uh, and, uh, I mean, it's it's what we have to do if we're going to come back together.
01:11:27.900If you want to have a civil war, we can have a civil war.
01:11:30.760Um, I don't want to be involved in it.
01:11:33.940I don't want to I don't want to have anything to do with it because civil war is usually a lot of people dead and it's rare that they work out well.
01:11:46.060Ours was the only one they just don't work out well.
01:11:50.320Uh, the best thing we can do is find a way to come together and it would be interesting to see, um, Mark Levin's book repackaged and rewritten by him using behavioral, uh, um, uh, behavioral, um, uh, what do you call it?
01:12:09.620Studies to be able to reposition it and change its language to see if you could make the case for the constitution and the declaration of independence.
01:28:07.220They're extending their price protection program as well.
01:28:10.940For as little as $2,500, you will get three months of price protection, which means if the price of gold falls in the three months after you buy it,
01:28:19.340they will make up that price difference with more gold.
01:38:53.620What's interesting for me is that they decided to assassinate his older half-brother in an airport where they put up those two dupes, those massage masseuses or whatever it was, and they killed the older half-brother, which is a really interesting move.
01:39:08.280I don't know why they did that, what they were worried about, what kind of chess pieces are being moved.
01:39:12.360Weren't they sending a message to the West, first sending a message to their own people, look at what the West has done, but also maybe sending a message to the people he's afraid of that I'll get you wherever you are, and also a message to the West.
01:39:38.300No, it's totally possible, and it's possible that they were worried there was some plot afoot to overthrow things and to use the older half-brother as somebody to install a new, more democratic regime there.
01:39:51.720They're absolutely nuts, and there isn't a good way out of this, particularly because you've got Seoul sitting on the other side of the DMZ, and Seoul, when you think about it, with 11 million people there, they are the Israel of that area.
01:40:02.080There's bunkers underneath everything because they're worried about incoming from the North Koreans.
01:40:07.460There is not a good way out of this, and it's another place.
01:40:12.320You would have thought that we had Saddam Hussein's inner circle very well penetrated before we went into the Gulf War scenario, and we didn't, and we're even more blind when it comes to North Korea.
01:40:23.220These guys all have skeletons in their closet, the generals and the politicos behind them.
01:40:27.340We need to work it from the inside out.
01:40:29.200Okay, so you are a—I've got a gun to your head.
01:40:33.660I'm forcing you to put your house down on the betting table.
01:40:38.960Do you bet this ends in our favor, or it ends with war?
01:40:47.700I think China goes in and does something.
01:40:49.920I think the Chinese are better equipped to overthrow that government, and they don't—but the problem for China is they don't want the mass of humanity running in.
01:42:19.600And we are a big reason why the oil prices are as low.
01:42:24.020They are in deep trouble economically.
01:42:26.720Does that not make them more desperate?
01:42:28.700It's going to make them more desperate, but I think that with the Internet and the ability of good Russian people to see stories about liberty and freedom from around the world, I think we should be—I think we should be fomenting unrest in Russia.
01:42:48.240I think we ought to out-manipulate them, but do it with the truth.
01:42:51.660I think we should ignite the lamp of liberty in the hearts of the Russian people, because once those lamps are lit, there is no extinguishing it.
01:42:59.820And let's beat them with the truth, because there's a lot of bad things in Russia, and the more we can do to help expose it and get those people to rise up, the better it'll be for the rest of the world.
01:43:08.100Putin needs to go and all of those sleazy, corrupt people around him.
01:43:11.760Do we actually come to our senses as Republicans and Democrats and actually deal with the fact that they're already here and infiltrating and working on 2018 and 2020?
01:43:26.920Do you see us actually getting there, or just using all of these investigations to hurt one side or the other?
01:43:32.840Listen, I know that there are good people on both sides of the aisle that are concerned about this, because the shoe can be on the other foot tomorrow.
01:43:42.480It can be a Republican today, a Democrat tomorrow that's being either helped or hurt by these efforts.
01:43:47.480This is an American issue, and that's the way we need to focus on it.
01:43:50.480And, you know, Trump is—it's the one issue he won't touch.
01:43:53.700He will not condemn the Russians to come right out and say, if this happens again, you know, this is going to be the consequence.
01:44:20.780I think real American leadership would be saying, you know what, you dealt—you did some pretty bad stuff, and, you know, we're not going to ease sanctions on you.
01:44:28.060I mean, it's insane that Congress has got to do what's best for the country by blocking the loosening of sanctions, and the president's lobbying for that.
01:51:38.760I would ask any members of our audience that pray, if you would just say a prayer for us today and keep us in your heart and in your prayers today, we could use some prayer coverage.