were among those, rev. your response to william hrodey bryant s attorney there. the use of carnival. we were having prayer vigils. you had some people protesting and you had media. when we have a gathering it s a carnival. we re like elephants jumping through a fire hoop at a circus, and i think that this, again, is intentional wording to give the kind of signals they want to the public. if we were to calling white evangelical ministers a carnival or a circus, we would be ridiculed or dismissed as saying something bigoted, biased and
are less than humans and should not have the same interpretation of law for them as would other people. i m glad you brought that up, reverend. i was going to ask paul about that. let me have you listen, rev, to what kevin goff, the attorney for william hrodey bryant had to say after the verdict about what was going on outside the courtroom. listen. you ve seen the efforts in the case to try and contain the carnival like atmosphere outside the courthouse and, you know, that s pretty rough. you ve got you guys doing your job and other people doing their jobs and, you know, this is america. it ain t easy. you ve got you want freedom, you ve got to work at it. and just to remind the audience, i m sure they recognized that guy. he s the same one who said that he called for a mistrial and had railed against the black ministers, the black pastors who were sitting in the gallery, you