already. if the supreme court in this case next week hands down a ruling, that has nationwide impact, well those conversations about gay rights and the competition between republican candidates ton gay rights issue is going to get a lot more complicated than it is right now and a lot weird than it is right now and that s going to happen very very fast. and then the day after the marriage case is heard next week, the very next day, it will be the lethal injection case at the supreme court. and we ve been focusing on that here, on this show in the last couple of days, because there is something factually really strange going on about that case, and it feels to me like it s about to become a giant kneeneon flashing national question mark. as you know, the case the supreme court will hear on lethal injections next week out of oklahoma, one state out of many that s had trouble with its lethal injection procedures over the last few months and years. this past friday, oklahoma s republican go
gay marriage on the ballot may have cost some democrats their seats. there was real worry still in the democratic party as recently as a decade ago that the gay rights issue was hurting us, the gay marriage issue was hurting us. prop 8 passed. and now here we are a decade later and you ve got two conservative states doing tap dances to reassure business groups and gay and lesbian groups and political groups and major power players that no, god no we re not passing a statute that would allow discrimination against gay people. we would never do such a thing. i mean, ten years ago, if you tell me that that was going to be the scene today, i would have laughed and asked what you were smoking. you point out supporters say they re not intended to discriminate, that they re really intend to do protect the deeply held meaningful ten ets
to be rescued is through the gay rights issue, right? and that s a kind of a big deal. republicans are going to have to address it. one of the most famous sons of indiana, david letterman, has been talking about this this week. we have an early clip of what is going to be on the show later tonight. let s take a look at this. i love indiana. i will probably be buried in indiana, and i know i ve embarrassed the state many, many times. [ laughter ] and the entire country. [ laughter ] [ applause ] yeah, okay. what i want to know is what can i do now to make the governor feel uncomfortable? as a matter of fact there s
this is only a defense. and it is not an ironclad defense at that as has been pointed out. in some cases it has not worked in court as a defense. in all cases when raceised with respect to the gay rights issue in all cases it has failed, mark. i would say right now in indiana since this law has been passed, i can go to a pizdzeria and we could be refused you are absolutely wrong. no. let me finish my point. use the case like people if you re a florist or cakemaker you can refuse service to provide you re using two different analogies. i m not using different analogies. let me set the matter straight legally. if you can discriminate legally against gays in indiana right now, it s because they allow discrimination against gays. it s because they don t have an anti-discrimination law on the books against gays.
that has something to do with gays. if you deviate you ll be forced to justify or apologize your comment immediately. he is in a possible sifgs leadership and been on television for quite a while. he should have an ability to navigate a question like that in a better way. i think they could have turned it back on him. the gay rights issue is a civil rights issue for many. tires african-american head coach of nfl super bowl. indiana had to deal with that. this one. monica, jennifer and paula move over. the energizer is in town. according to kessler president clinton has a new mistress, a buxom blonde who as a nickname. the energizer shows up minutes after hillary hits the road. tanna? look, in france this would