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Catholics are pushing back against a proposal by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops...

A San Francisco pastor has become the first openly transgender bishop in the U.S. FacebookTwitterEmail This April 2021 selfie photo shows the Rev. Megan Rohrer, at the Grace Lutheran Church in San Francisco. Rohrer was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Americas Sierra Pacific synod on Saturday, May 8, 2021, becoming the first transgender person to serve as bishop in the denomination or in any of the U.S. major Christian faiths. (Meghan Rohrer via AP)Meghan Rohrer / Associated...

During your time as attorney general of california you had the opportunity to lay out the legal groundwork for same-sex marriage legislation. you officiated the first same-sex marriage in san francisco. thanks for that. given these -- >> it was my joy. >> given these facts, your perspective of the lgbtq plus community is likely more liberal than other parts of the country. how will you leverage your liberal californian perspective when reaching out to voters in small conservative areas. >> what ...

Consequences to this. we had a person scheduled to be on a show i do on fox business on thursday who was all set to be -- hes one of the people on that list. he backed out because his family convinced him that it would be dangerous to him and the whole family if he appeared. i mean, these are real consequences that can lead to harm for the people being shamed. >> right. and a lot of the businesses in texas who are being boycotted, they employ a lot of hispanic workers. in california you had with...

Consequences to this. we had a person scheduled to be on a show i do on fox business on thursday who was all set to be -- hes one of the people on that list. he backed out because his family convinced him that it would be dangerous to him and the whole family if he appeared. i mean, these are real consequences that can lead to harm for the people being shamed. >> right. and a lot of the businesses in texas who are being boycotted, they employ a lot of hispanic workers. in california you had with...

Transgender individual were barred from serving in the military. she said this is not a lgbt friendly administration and to note that her history of defending lgbt rights goes back to 2004 and said there are other democrats that were pressing for civil unions at the time and she said that she was over on the steps of city hall marrying individuals when california legalized same-sex marriage here in the state. of course she also chose not to defend proposition 8 which was a california voter appro...

And nails him. theres something that was told to me, when we were doing the case against proposition 8, which was to establish marriage equality. one of the lawyers says to me, you know, you can say whatever you want on television. but the minute you go into a courtroom and you put your hand on a bible, and swear to tell the truth, you have to tell the truth. thats the reason why this president, who is a pathological liar, is not going to talk to robert mueller. he is incapable of telling the tr...

>> what s.e. said, obviously, i agree with it. but i have for a long time. very brave for her to say that because within her party, still, as you noted, that is a minority view. 74% of democrats support marriage equality. 69% of independents, but only 35% of republicans do. this is the problem the republicans have. adapt or die. they are going to continue to fight this. youre going to see already scott walker, ted cruz, probably other candidates for president calling for constitutional amendment...

Your reaction to you were a professor to then student obama. >> i applaud this decision because finally there is equality in the law. and i think this country has celebrated that for a long time but now with this decision its a very clear indication that even though justice kennedy is a republican appointee, even though you talk about republican folks, he sees this as an issue of equality and equality and justice is what we need and this opinion gives it today. >> we are getting some reaction fr...

Marriage. >> when they changed their position in the courts, that did make a big deal. because the administrate stopped defending the separation of the courts. >> in this particular case, the court and the president had been lagging indicators of where public opinion has shifted. you know, theres always a question about what the supreme court should do. should it do the heavy lift for the country as it did in the case of interracial marriage because not many people in the country supported inter...