married. not exactly what happened. so the people who got married during the time when marriages were allowed in california and then the moment prop 8 was enacted, those marriages are still valid under california law. you have an odd limbo. 18,000 couples that are still married. but there is month gay marriage going forward from proposition 8. from november 2008 forward there is no gay marriage in california. this sort of odd legal limbo. there are avenues you can take. one is to think of this as a california moment and think about the idea of taking back rights that have already been conferred. we compare it to abortion earlier. if we get that sort of decision that imposes using brown the roe v. wade of marriage. i would like that. i would like marriage rights to be extended to all same-sex couples in all 50 states. it may have to be done by the supreme court just as interracial couples were allowed
inspired anger people having sex for fun and not for god. there is this civil rights progression you can see of winning thee kind of institutional legal battles. the abortion fascinating one. has to be defended. you know, the other thing is that the right wing has shown a very deep reservoir of funding and it has a strong base. motivated. and it feels that it has right on its side. i. i have to say happening what s on the right what s happening, there is a big generational difference. and there is a real civil war battle brewing. i mean, young republican right wing activists, you know, even the stuff happening for cpac. is that a rebranding strategy? i trust it. the reason i trust it is because the young conservatives that i interact with genuinely think that genuinely support marriage equality. i don t think that i think
to marry. the backlash against that will be staggering and so in some ways that is what i most hope for that decision and most fear. that s inning. it would be a roe v. wade moment. i think we should be looking at ruth bader ginsburg. although she is progressive on social values, she is a conservative in terms of her view of the court s institutional role. in a lecture at nyu in the 1990s she was very critical and said there was a moment stuff going on the ground about lib rlizing abortion and the court intervened and this moment about prompted this wave of backlashes for the next 40 years. what s also interest being the ginsburg history rise she herself is a litigator who is bringing civil rights equality cases on issues of sex discrimination against women. sometimes sex discrimination against men which is a litigation strategy is her litigation strategy was incredibly narrow.
headline, gays are the new black. gay is the new abortion. we will never be over. in america it touch owes sex and sexuality and sexual freedom, a huge part of the country s population, gop base, is going to fight back. that s a fascinating that s a fascinating analogy, abortion. i think it is fascinating because we had some folks abortion access to birth control, women s freedom, women s rights, gay rights, it is all about sexual control. and it is all thing that this anger about sexual recreational sex. and you are having abortions because you had sex for fun and didn t want to have babies. using birth control which rick santorum has a problem with, having sex for the wrong reasons which is 99.9% of the sex people have, connection, release. that links gay sex, too, abortion, gay people, gay sex. all link bid religiously