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Certainly something i have dealt with, you know, every day of my life, and now being in the public lieeye i certainly deal h it very directly. you know, it's -- it's something that i've grown a thick skin for. you know, i certainly respect everyone's rights to their own opinion. i think at the end of the day we have to all agree treating any american as a second-class citizen is just not okay. >> that is the actor jesse tyler ferguson. he's an openly gay actor on a sitcom called "modern family" and what jesse tyler ferguson was doing in that clip was lobbying the state of illinois on gay right...

So this is not my -- but, you know, speaking about people who oppose marriage equality, it's certainly something i have dealt with, you know, every day of my life, and now being in the public eye i certainly deal with it very directly. you know, it's -- it's something that i've grown a thick skin for. you know, i certainly respect everyone's rights to their own opinion. i think at the end of the day we have to all agree treating any american as a second-class citizen is just not okay. >> that is the actor jesse tyler ferguson. he's an openly gay actor on a sitcom called "modern family" and wha...

So this is not my wheelhouse, but, you know, speaking about people who oppose marriage equality, it's certainly something i have dealt with, you know, every day of my life, and now being in the public eye, i certainly deal with it very directly. you know, it's -- it's something that i've grown a thick skin for. you know, i certainly respect everyone's rights to their own opinion. but i think at the end of the day we have to all agree that treating any american as a second-class citizen is just not okay. >> that is the actor jesse tyler ferguson. he's an openly gay actor on a sitcom called "mod...

Shoe shine person, you know, a worker inside of the white house because that's the most powerful address in the world. and if i found an african-american worker, then during the '50s, it was still treated outside of the white house as a second-class citizen because they didn't have their full rights. and i thought that saga, their life, whoever i would find, i thought their life bracketed up against the life of then senator obama's victory would be a very compelling story. >> so how did you find eugene allen? >> a phone call came in from tampa, florida. and the lady said there is a gentleman b...

Know. that's a key thing. so all of the postures that people go through in order to not know. if you think back to 1986 barrows versus hardwick case when the justice cast a key deciding vote in this case that upheld sodomy statutes and said to one of thighs colleagues, i don't think i've ever met a homosexual. and he actually met a lot of them and in fact hired a stream of them as his clerks. favorite clerks every year. >> sir, sir, remember me. >> exactly. >> it's a little which came first, the chicken or the egg. and if you live in a place that says this is bad, this is wrong, this is illega...