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the president united states has made a historic announcement that he
this is the this is it
and historic president
i mean here we have the first african-american president of a nation
that was founded in slavery
of african-americans
and now that man
has said that
that he believes that everybody regardless not just of their race or
their nationality or their religion but also their *** orientation everybody
should have the right to get married
and i'm telling you someday we're gonna look back on this and go to though
it's like
it today he tell people
yea i have to write i speak well of uh... dwight eisenhower from time to
time you know he kept at ninety one percent top tax rate he was in favor of
social security was in favor of the right to unionize and egg in his asian
peaked during his administration
he would you know he he'd paid a lot of good things he'd be ended the the career
working ran on a platform nineteen fifty two of
of local fries our vote for peace
and yet
throughout his presidency
discrimination i mean not just discrimination segregation in the united
states without a legal
but actively and aggressively practiced
including in his administration
the times change
and times are changing
now
just like we look back on on the era of eisenhower the fifties
and say how could we have done
how can we have had laws on the books and states all over this country the
last one was taken down in nineteen sixty five
the said that if a black person in a white person want to get married it's a
crime in this state
miscegenation
how could we have done that
and i'm telling you there's a point where we're gonna look back at this
and we're gonna say
okay things have changed now
gays are married so wat you know life is caught like flight goes i mean it's it's
it's time to michael's isaac
now the human families complete
now our bar brother-in-law and sister in law are enter cousin or aunt colored
boram
here of in
in one case i know of a good friend is his father came out when he was
you know when you can he
became man he was like eighteen or nineteen or twenty years old was dad
came out and said you know hey i'm gay
and mas let us friend but you know are really like steve
embedded if you know he had been from that era where you just was a lot
so you know i think we're gonna look back and go how could we have done that
to all those people all those years
how could we have it's like when you look at the pictures the slaves in with
the with parks across their backs
and and compare that to the right now the statistic
at the highest suicide rate in the united states
is among gay teenagers
and someday we're gonna look back at that and say how could we have allowed
that
d_n_a_ per villain i_d_ what's up
uh... don't come i'm a democrat and uh... become a democratic elected
and i've been pro-parliament and our
well collection but not main the
the move today
doesn't uh...
it privately i'm concerned that it may contain
hit second thoughts about voting for him
but i don't like to vote for rounding either because of our minister fit
couple two-three generation they're concluding probably don't family
believed in multiple wives
well apparently get you and i would agree about what you think
if we've noted is
changing and this is a or uh... that they will look back on but i don't want
to know why would you not vote for obama
because he cannot deliver marriage equality
because
if bigger and i do feel that marriage
the definition of marriage is for a man and woman to do it together other people
can go doing that they want but that doesn't make it a marriage
well by by the definitions of many churches you're right
and and if you want to use a religious definition i don't disagree with you at
all
uh... you know i think those churches will change over time the the them
several major denominations lutherans the methodists are changing right now
but uh... that's sad
what scares you but the people
i didn't say that i was scared gave people and i'm not
saying that i would totally be again civil unions which they've already
approved an illinois
but marriage by definition you get the idea of bringing a man and a woman
together
well it he has uh... but up until nineteen sixty five it was bringing a
black man in a black woman or a white man in a way that woman together
but it was illegal to bring a
uh... of black men or
more woman and a white man or woman together you know pappas braces
and you know our definitions of marriage of changed repeatedly
over the years
well now you have to go up to date
in my mind that compunction to parents
biologically it's appropriation
emotionally it's to bring together beijing and the anger masculine and the
family
now if you're talking about it economic point of view westinghouse's addresses
both of them can camp marriage because i
worthless address both of those first and only in the female ever uh... okay
that's done enough
the good enough
uh... are you suggesting that people who are sterile chicago other demerit
or people who are past the age of child a daughter when women have been a pause
should they lose their ability to marry
and the if you want to be any anger
uh... i would submit to you that a lot of gay couples that i know really are
union in the midst of
the elephants about her wife in a bit
there are they'd people play the role beyond that that the more
and on and mobility and the reason that many of us here
roles that but what i'll do the lottery republic that i think those telling what
it looked like
there at that point appropriately made college worldwide well you might call it
hurts out she shouldn't she have the right to do that
well-qualified malapit no not exactly because your reinventing not only or
if precariously has what the role what a white kid but all the other people who
are white
you redefine now well let's let's talk about the definition of a lifetime
the the the user the that this is from page fifty one of my book on equal
protection of human reference on this although
and that's all well footnote id
uh... from the founding of this country in seventeen eighty nine when the
constitution was passed
until the nineteen twenties
in the united states
this was the law
just very straightforward in married woman was not allowed to make out a will
because she was not allowed to own land or legally control anything else worthy
of willing to another person
any property a woman brought into a marriage became her husband's at the
moment of marriage
and we refer to her only if he died and she did not remarry but even then she
would get only one-third of residents property and one third of was and how
she could use it was destroyed by a male court-appointed executor
who could supervise for the rest of her life super rice her or until she
remarried how she used a third of her husband's a state the sheik so-called
inherited
when a widow died the executor could take the property for himself or decide
whom to pass the woman to uh... the woman had no say in the matter
because she had the right to sign will women cannot sue a court of law
under the same that they are dedicated to you could only sort of core law on
the same we procedures allowed for the mentally ill and for children and their
lawsuit had to be supervised by men
it was impossible in the united states of america for american woman to have
legal responsibility for her own children
control her own property owned slaves buyer cell land or even obtain an
ordinary license
if a man or a full of a family household i detect there were decided who would
raise the whites children and in what religion she had no right to make those
decisions that's how we define white from seventeen eighty-nine in nineteen
twenty five
do you really want to go the traditional definition
uh... at five thirty and a half day i think things change anytime soon steve
thank you for your call bend and for the respectful disagreement every few we'll
be right back fifteen minutes past