what this administration found politically, which i think is what is most important, when they finally made movement on don't ask, don't tell, finally made small movement on the defensive marriage act, another law we wanted repealed, all of a sudden, they saw the flood gates open and gay money start to come back to them for the re-elect. gate community supposedly is the only community where this sort of spigot of fund-raising has been turned back on because the president made steps in the right direction so i would argue it is politically to his benefit with the public but also the gay community to be a little bit more our fierce advocate, which he had promised. >> fred, how does this play out? is the president going to pay any sort of price for -- let's be honest, dragging his feet a bit on marriage equality and pay any price within the gay community for that next year? >> well, i guess i would make two observations, the first is i think that it's important to understand that marriage is not the only priority to the gay community, far from it. in 29 states in this country, could you still be fired for your sexual orientation and in 36 states for your gender identity.