Next, a preview of cspans landmark cases from the National Constitution center in philadelphia. Welcome to the Constitution Center. I am the president of this wonderful institution which is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That is so inspiring. Wonderful live cspan audience. You can see the great members of the National Constitution center, like people around the country, are inspired by this nonpartisan mission of constitutional education and believe it is crucially important for citizens to educate themselves about the constitution so american democracy can thrive and survive. And in this educational mission, we are so excited to be partners with cspan. We had a wonderful collaboration a few years ago. Landmark cases. Which described the human stories behind some of the most Important Supreme Court cases of all times. That series was inspired by a comment that Justice Bader
clapping and back in 2004 you look back and now 11 years and think oh gosh a for begun conclusion you know that was not the case it took uncommon leadership we had that in our City Attorney Dennis Herrera that was an honor to work with him side by side welcome our City Attorney Dennis Herrera clapping. happy pride. Thank you kate and mayor ed lee im sure with the great weather were going to or have this weekend what a wonderful, wonderful today i had Justice Harry stewart in my office remember where we were 11 years ago and about the challenges that we knew we were going to face as and began this battle looked at gavin newsom and we stood on the steps midmarket over the course of the years weve had ups and downstairs all of us collectively never waived in doing what was right as ii think back weve uttered the words in this building about the arc of history bends towards justice well, today, it. Came to fruition clapping. i think we need to call a special recollection to the plaintiffs
Special recollection to the plaintiffs and our good friend mary for her tremendous leadership in the United States Supreme Court but we we saw a culmination of something ive said repeating in the course of 11 years the beauty of making the law to make a difference in peoples lives we saw that over the course but it wouldnt have happened without the human faces of all of you if you han or have the opportunity to go and read judicious kennedys opinion this morning ill encourage you to read the introduction it talks about the history of a marriage the history of discrimination to the Lgbt Community has dealt with and you get a sense of the power of humanity and the ability to change peoples lives today everybody succeeded in bring justice to the thousands and thousands of lgbt families and individuals that have suffered from melissa and today it stops. clapping. thats due to the effort of all of you think about the progress 22 and prop 6815 years ago now how many people have come to the r
Humanity and the ability to change peoples lives today everybody succeeded in bring justice to the thousands and thousands of lgbt families and individuals that have suffered from melissa and today it stops. clapping. thats due to the effort of all of you think about the progress 22 and prop 6815 years ago now how many people have come to the right confliction about understanding that everybody is entitle to equal protection under the law eir respect of Sexual Orientation but the kate has said another brick of the foundation of equality it didnt stop here if were going to build the justice side that is more work in terms of inequality and economic less fortunate to deal with racism to understand that today is a wonderful day to be celebrated we have to understand there are still discriminates we have to fight and we need equal protection under the law in federal employment for lgbt individuals thought this country to make sure the efforts of people like jim harry necessarily and robert
Dates. What works and exactly how that process can happen ill recommend i understand your intent coming up could you u coming out of committee but tuesday to nail it down and write it so Everybody Knows exactly what it looks like when you vote on it. Mr. Gibner would it be substantive. No. You make the amendment on tuesday and still pass it. So i will Taylor Reserve that for tuesday, i understand the challenges supervisor farrell statistics it i understand the changes the director is dealing with with the reality of the market although id like to see the final deal proposed before us i will make a motion to forward out this with a positive recommendation to the full board of supervisors. Motion pie supervisor tang madam clerk a roll call vote. Supervisor tang supervisor mar marry no supervisor farrell two is one no. The motion okay. Thank you everyone madam clerk, is there any additional business to come before this body . Theres no further business. Were adjourned thanks. Good morning