i am jonathan capehart. exactly seven years ago today, june 26 2015, the supreme court handed down the historic ruling in which gave same-sex couples a constitutional right to marry. an amazing leap for equality five decades after the stonewall riots upheld the modern gay rights movement, just a half hour from the i-seven. later this evening, in unprecedented display of acceptance, the white house was emblazoned with rainbow colors of lgbtq pride. but if this is a high-water mark of its nation living up to its ideals, what do we call it happened on friday, when the supreme court s conservative supermajority overturned roe v. wade? as a result, abortion will soon be illegal in as many as 26 states. in louisiana, abortion is illegal after federalization. and kentucky, it is now a felony to perform, or attempt to, perform an abortion. and in one clinic, abortion serves as immediately, stranding woman in rating rooms. what does the of roe, have to do with lgbtq rights? ever
studies interviewed governors and texas, and they said, why do you carry a gun? the gun owners say, you can pull up to a bodega and again when grainger could show up, a carjacker or something. then the fallout question was, has it ever happen to? you well know, the answer was, but it could. so this imagining of the racial other which ties into histories of gun ownership and race in this country, really have horrific effects not just about guns but about race. and there is a whole other part of this ruling which i think is equally, or in fact even, worse which is that justice thomas wrote that to meet the bar for new legislation, and you can control legislation, you have to show that this gun law met the criteria from the late 1700s, or the early 18 hundreds. so in a way, your cat 30,000 people at the time. there were no ar-15s. in a way, what this was doing was overturning the issue is going to, be overturning the modern gun control movement as we now.