eugene rivers, senior policy adviser for the church of god and christ and an msnbc political analyst and eric dyson, an ordained minister. hello, gentlemen, good to see you both. >> good morning, michael. >> good morning, gene. >> i will begin with you, professor dyson. does rick santorum of mitt romney to use gay marriage as a weapon have any similarities to the southern strategy we saw used by president nixon and others in the 1960s? >> i think it does. i think there's a clear agenda item for the conservatives and the far right to exploit the base bigotries that prevail in the culture along with the anxieties along the new fault lines that are being developed as we grapple with questions of sexual orientation and the roimp between people's religious beliefs, the institutional expression of their religions, as well as their own understanding of sexual orientation. so as these questions continue to come before us, i think that