first out gay senator tammy work for it. and yet, this bill would protect couples who got married where same-sex marriage is legal. but if clarence thomas in the supreme court decided to overturn like a did row, couples in the other 35 states could be thrown into chaos. there are more than 1 million same-sex household in america today, more than 700,000 of them, headed by married couples. how many of those families are threatened by clarence thomas tonight? joining us now is kelly robinson, president of the human rights campaign. how are you feeling about the respect for marriage act? i m feeling hopeful i m feeling optimistic. my wife and i were in the senate gallery when the final vote happened. it is not just about the wedding party or celebration, it is about ensuring that no matter what the supreme court may do, if you are a same-sex or interracial married couple,
bigots will not be able to invalidate my marriage. i am happy that republicans voted for it, and that president biden who voted for will sign it swiftly with pride. i m an institutionalist, so i know that change happens incrementally. i watched obama s evolution on this issue in 2012, yes 2012. i know how hard won this change was and how hard the senate s first out gay senator tammy work for it. and yet, this bill would protect couples who got married where same-sex marriage is legal. but if clarence thomas in the supreme court decided to overturn obergerfeld like a did row, couples in the other 35 states could be thrown into
you re a news side reporter. you re not an opinion guy like me and can just pop off so i m going to three out my people, the races i m watching. mayor of los angeles. congresswoman karen bass. lieutenant governor of pennsylvania we could have the first out gay elected official in pennsylvania in brian sims who s running for that race. like tara and rene, i m looking at florida, pennsylvania, wisconsin. you have african-americans running for the senate in those from those states so we ll see if any or all of those folks are successful. john, considering that you ve been covering congress for more than 30 years, on the hill are there people who just objectively speaking are vulnerable? and we might not be seeing them
and, you know, it won t be easy, because that s the truth. and you ll go up you know, you ll have you know, there ll be bumpy roads, but at the end of it, you know, you will succeed. and you ll still be loved. well, first, i would tell her, honey, you re gay, because i don t think she had realized it at the time. and it s all going to be okay. right? like, you, again, repeating the same word. you are loved. there s nothing wrong with you. and your drive and the people around you, the support of your family, of your friends, won t go away. you ll be able to go on through life and do go to things to teach your daughter, yes, by the way, you will one day have a daughter, to teach her the importance of public service. so i think i would want to convey to her one, a sense of security. two, to get her to understand
employment retirement system as having divested from gun manufacturers when in fact it was the california state teachers retirement system that was the first major pension fund to divest from firearms manufacturers. as a coda, it turns out a few days after i appeared on rachel s show, calprs voted to divest from two gun manufacturers as well. so you can also view my error as a brief moment of claryovance. christine quinn has, after 1,000 days, not brought to vote a bill that would require all businesses in the city to give their employees five paid sick days a year. this week, gloria steinem signed a letter along with hundreds of other women that ran an ad in the new york times calling for miss quinn to bring sick pay day legislation up for vote. if elected, she would be the first out gay mayor of new york.