florida state. it gives you a chance to just talk to some of the kids. we learned some of them were gay. i said, well, what happens to you at school? that s when it got vicious. it caught me by surprise. i thought in america in 2013, i didn t know this many people hate gays. i was shocked. not to know how can we put this bullying thing under wraps, that s when i started to continue to shoot the documentary and interviewing the kids. i learned a lot of gruesome things. you learned from your experience probably how many gay kids i mean, you can empathize more i m sure now with gay kids. yeah. okay. you re not naming the church. why? well, don, here s what me and my mom sat down and talked about. i thought we would be doing evil for evil. if i release the church, the pastor s name, his family and
as second class citizens and same no, you are not married. point here beinging that striking down doma would be massively transformational. short of the kind of constitutional moment that may come. hundreds of thousands much people in the country that are hurt right now and married. dean is putting his finger a common thread for both cases. in many is expect, both of these cases are not so much about marriage as they are about affirming human dignity and equality. and you are speaking right to anthony kennedy at this moment, aren t you? some of the people that are most affected when you strike down marriage ban and affirm equality of everyone in a particular state, for example, are the kids. gay kids. who may have no desire to more write. not even thinking about relationships at that point but who are being told by their families, by their churches and kids in their schools, that there something wrong with them. that they can never aspire to the same kind of family as eve
financial. keep in mind the boy scouts of america have lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in corporate sponsorships because of its anti-gay stance. intel and united parcel service have pulled their funding and there is a decline in membership. the organization claims 2.7 youth members and 1 million adult volunteers. the number of young people involved in scouting plunged 20% since 2000. and many simply say it is an outdated discriminatory policy. the leading cause of death for gay kids is suicide because they feel deep feelings of rejection from organizations like the boy scouts of america and individuals in our society that reject that. reporter: even president obama said gays should have the same access and opportunities as everyone else in society.
removing this toxic policy of discriminating against gay kids. if they end the ban once and for all, that s 8 great thing. the delay according to the organization was a result of the comments of those outside the organization. do you believe the comments that are weighing heavily on the scouts is one, for example, your point of view or do you believe people like rick santorum. wednesday s vote say challenge to the scouts s very nature and another attempt of the left to remove god in the mind of the intolerant liberal mind that must be forced to conform. do you believe your voice is being considered or rick santorum and other who is agree with him. i think it s the voice of the 21% of the boy scouts that exited the organization over the past 13 years. that s the voice. the voice of the president of the united states of america on sunday. i think the boy scouts are going
two years since the project launched. the observe administration moved on the repeal of don t and it s history. marriage equality has come to more states, it may come to three additional states. this november fingers crossed. a tremendous amount of progress. one of the things we do with video is provide that long view and perspective that some teenagers who were just coming out who are gay, lesbian, don t have because gay adults don t raise the next generation of gay kids a lot are unaware of the hoefr history in the progress it s made. the history of talking about it, you were during that march 87. it s so long ago, we re all getting old i guess. you mentioned the president and vice president. tonight we have the vice presidential debate. with the issue of lgbt issues in general, what question would you like to ask either of the two candidates? well, i think it s interesting that paul ryan said that if romney and ryan get