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Care. >> here is the deal. i agree with david this is a tea party problem. they are unreasonable and not founded in reality. i uh think they have been smoking some of the tea, not drinking it. >> i'm not afraid of anybody. this is a tough game. you can want be inup tim dated. you can't be frightened. as far as i'm concerned the tea party can go straight to hell. >> some of these folks in congress right now would love to see us as second class citizens. some of them in congress right now with this tea party movement would love to see you and me [ inaudible ] hanging on a tree. some of them righ...

To a town meeting on health care. >> here is the deal. i agree with david this is a tea party problem. they are unreasonable and not founded in reality. i uh think they have been smoking some of the tea, not drinking it. >> i'm not afraid of anybody. this is a tough game. you can want be inup tim dated. you can't be frightened. as far as i'm concerned the tea party can go straight to hell. >> some of these folks in congress right now would love to see us as second class citizens. some of them in congress right now with this tea party movement would love to see you and me [ inaudible ] hanging ...

Thanks for joining us this morning. >> good to be with you. >>shannon: i know this ordinance which basically says you can't hold certain positions or get work with this city, and it's in draft form now, if you speak out in word or deed against homosexuality, i know the ordinance has been through a lot of iterations. are you satisfied with where it stands now? have your concerns been met? >> they have not been met at all. there have been a few things changed. but there has been in reality absolutely no change to the ordinance. alan parker, head of the justice foundation, talking with him, this ...

Especially in the red states, over whether or not being gay should make you a second-class citizen and over whether or not our election laws ought to be blatantly racist. it's going to be both of those fights in parallel in a lot of the same states, all starting right now. these two decisions from the supreme court this week pulled us in different directions, but the fight from here on both of these issues is the same. it happens on the ground locally, pulling in the same direction in a lot of the same places toward protected equal civil rights. sometimes in some places that's going to mean pu...

Case that was decided yesterday at the supreme court. >> in 2008 when we elected the first african-american president, it was a glorious day, but later that night it was a horrible night when the returns for prop 8 came in saying that we were going to be treated as second-class citizens, and we just could not fathom being treated like that anymore. >> so it was that moment in 2008 when we simultaneously had this great civil rights advance of electing an african-american president, and also the civil rights reverse in terms of gay couples in california. that moment in 2008. now, this week, we a...