what republicans are doing now is simply a repeat of the 2004 playbook like banning gay marriage as officials in san francisco and massachusetts began recognizing the right with an eye helping george w. bush retain the white house. in february he backed an amendment to ban gay marriage with the right wing fear mongering. the union of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution. marriage cannot be severed from the cultural religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society. oh, w. the proposed amendment was pushed by the right in an effort to paint him as out of touch with voters on values. there was also a raft of gay marriage bans on the ballot in 1 1 states all of which passed. including critically in ohio, which narrowly handed bush his victory.
to yourself. whatever you got. joe, thank you. in quebec, canada, dramatic fire was caught on video where a boy and his parents had to escape from their fourth floor apartment. 10-year-old jason was lowered by his stepdad and caught by someone on the ground. his parents jumped out afterward onto the snow. they both remain in the hospital for treatment. alabama chief justice roy moore, the same judge behind the ten commandments tablets from a few years back, has ordered state judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to gay couples. moore says the u.s. supreme court decision last june only explicitly strikes down gay marriage bans in kentucky, tennessee, ohio and michigan and last march the alabama supreme court upheld the ban. a court gives an order it must be obeyed until that order is removed. legal experts expect moore s order to be overturned. the state trooper who arrested sandra bland during a traffic stop last year has been indicted for perjury by a texas grand jury f
at least is divided and not sure how to react. the republicans been aggressive. the democrat not so aggressive on this. judge david bunning, he is the one that first ordered kim davis to jail and also the judge that ordered her released. he is a bush appointee. should we read anything into that? i don t. a lot of federal judges that ruled that gay marriage bans were illegal were republican and not surprised he is involved and he is kind of taken the side of pro-marriage, pro-marriage equality advocates and the issue is moved most, kim davis we should note, most counties in the country in the south in kentucky are issuing these marriage licenses to all couples and kim davis is an anomaly within an anomaly. an unusual person taking the stand. that s a point evan wilson of freedom to marriage, a pro-marriage equality group is
strange thing called civil unions. i would remind people in 2004, gay marriage bans in the ballot were credited with re-electing george w. bush. we could talk about this for an hour but today it s an important day because jonathan capehart is turning 21. that s a reaction to the capehart day. who knew you were so patriotic. happy birthday, jonathan capehart, the best-dressed man in washington and maybe in the country, possibly. happy birthday, my friend. thank you very much. absolutely. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. andrea is back tomorrow. follow us
you noted that the topic hadn t been broeched. tell us more about that. reporter: we ve had a lot of speakers here. we ve had five potential republican candidates and a lot of those speakers, tlfrp only two people whose names i didn t know before i came here that spoke about gay marriage. rick santorum didn t and that was striking because we had rulings across the country that legalized gay marriage. and republicans here when i talk to them, we feel like we ve lost this issue. gay marriage will become legal in the country and we need to move to a different ground. we re not going to win the gay marriage battle. which is a striking concession. ten years ago george bush was running for president on a gay marriage ban and they put all of these gay marriage bans on states to turn out conservative voters. ten years later we have this event, the signature social conservative event of the year, no mention of gay marriage at all. in a room filled with a lot