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Those years. >> that may not all be celebration, if it's in the castro and we haven't got the prop 8. >> prop 8. on the same night that barack obama was voted president, california voted to take away existing marriage rights from same-sex couples. the same electorate that gave california to barack obama over john mccain by a 24-point margin, voted by more than four points to take away existing gay couple's marriage rights. and from that perspective, it sounds like that was a surprising vote, but that's perfectly in keeping with the track record with what happens when you take a majority vote o...

It's clearing the way for hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples. it's lifting the travel and immigration band for people living with hiv. it's ordering the federal housing authority to not can consider the sexual orientation of people who apply for housing loans. it's expanding the census, even, to make sure that people in same-sex relationships get counted. it's directing u.s. agencies who work with foreign countries to ensure that our humanitarian and diplomatic efforts abroad take into accounts the rights of gay and lesbian people in those other countries. it's supporting states t...

Heart. >> certainly me, having written for the papers out there all those years. >> that may not all be celebration, if it's in the castro and we haven't got the prop 8. >> prop 8. on the same night that barack obama was voted president, california voted to take away existing marriage rights from same-sex couples. the same electorate that gave california to barack obama over john mccain by a 24-point margin, voted by more than four points to take away existing gay couple's marriage rights. and from that perspective, it sounds like that was a surprising vote, but that's perfectly in keeping wit...

Republican nominee for president, not only is he not trying to mainstream gay and lesbian equality, he is actively working against it. he's promising to fight it. he's pledging to pursue an amendment to the united states constitution to ban marriage rights for same-sex couples. to impose that no matter what individual states want. when the romney campaign appointed an openly gay spokesman recently, he was hounded out of the job on the basis of the fact that he was gay. >> personnel is policy. when governor romney picked somebody who's an active homosexual and puts him in a prominent position, ...

Loans. it's expanding the census, even, to make sure that people in same-sex relationships get counted. it's directing u.s. agencies who work with foreign countries to ensure that our humanitarian and diplomatic efforts abroad take into accounts the rights of gay and lesbian people in those other countries. it's supporting states that are trying to extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. the administration did not always do that. they didn't, for example, do that before the vote on same-sex marriage rights in new york state. but they do that now. they did that before the vote that was lost...