injurious to a civil dialogue in this country about the barriers to equality. and yes, thomas, i do believe that they are the equivalent of hate speech. because they do serve as the basis for discrimination, and oftentimes they lead to very real consequences in our society. and that is why hrc has launched a project called "call it out" and in order to call out the statements of this kind by officials that really are in positions of great trust, because we deserve better as americans, and certainly the constituents in representative kern's district in oklahoma deserve better from her. >> and fred, i wanted to say that we are trying to educate our kids to treat everybody with respect and treat everybody with tolerance, but fortunately we have situations like jamie's situation, the young man who committed suicide, who at the one-year of tyler clemente, the rutger's student, and tomorrow