The federal case, geoff zarillo and paul katano. There are righights tha come along. The justices declined to rule and therefore upheld al ban. Our straight friends are getting married. The sky has not fallen in. I spoke to the proposition 8 challengers in washington, d. C. In a minute, you will hear from chris and sandy. But first, my interview with the men. They have been a couple since 1998 and married last year. Was there a moment for a series or a series of moments where you realized that you were not just disappointed people, as a lot of people were in california after prop 8, but ready to join the fight, ready to put the bit in your teeth and actually take this to court . Your proposition 8 hurt. It hurt before it passed because the propaganda took a shift and the shift was to utilize this idea that children would be harmed, the institution of marriage would be harmed, heterosexual couples would no longer get married if you were to allow Marriage Equality. It was the propaganda
The biggest misconception is that most of my life is taken up with junk and scandals and alleged corruption. Most of the no because i even in d. C. 152nd sound bite. And nationally the United States government. Beset that tape to every ambassador in the world cannot to every president of every country in the world, sent it to the other propaganda arm of the u. S. Government. It ran on television. But this so many have contributed to it, too. And that is all part of it. I am not fazed by it. Washington d. C. , as long as it gives them some hope that some help. I dont care. [applause] i dont care. The wanted thank you so much for coming here tonight. I also wanted to give you this is actually a very precious object. I dont know if you have gotten one of these before, the National Press club coffee mug. I have two of them. Well, now you have triplets. They do so much for coming. We will be outside signing a book. Im sorry. Right over here signing a book. [inaudible conversations] [inaudib
[inaudible conversations] i want to start by thinking of a couple of people like the Concord Monitor for sponsoring this event a and red river theater in the venue to hold this is and i want to sink michael for making notice when you walked in and in joe will stick around so i hope you take advantage of that also to joe to talk about the main circuit of course, also coming tusis said you have read about this in the monitor but to talk about my experience with joe when i was at the monitor. And at some point during that time she decided she wanted to leave she got a nice offer from the st. Petersburg times but i have not struggled as much with that decision because she had such great loyalty because she had a wonderful time as a reporter and we were used to reporters moving onto larger papers but joe talked about this two or three times from the st. Petersburg times. In thin to a three years later after she won all kinds of awards for investigative reporting for the seat petersburg time
Well, now you have triplets. They do so much for coming. We will be outside signing a book. Im sorry. Right over here signing a book. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] coming up next on book tv, jo becker writes about the fight to legalize samesex marriage in her book forcing the spring. Then edward klein. And former washington d. C. Merit to the mayor talks about his new autobiography mayor for life. Cspan2 providing live coverage of the Senate Floor Proceedings and keep Public Policy events and every weekend book tv now for 15 years the only Television Network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2, created by the cabletv industry and brought to you as a Public Service by your local cable satellite provider. Watch in hd, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Pulitzer prizewinning reporter jo becker wrote a book forcing the spring chronicling the political and legal fight overseeing samesex marriage paris she recently discussed her book and Marriage Equ
To all this because they believed if people could get to know the four plaintiffs, if they could see what they went through over the course of these five years, that win or lose it would educate people. Win or lose it would move people and make them see this issue in a different light. How hard was it to choose the plaintiffs indicates . Normally you think, theres a couple of people who want to get married and hire a firm. This idea was the opposite. You had essentially chad griffin who is gay sitting watching the elections returns come in on election night. And barack obama makes history. You know, hes the first africanamerican president elected. Chat as a democrat. He wants to celebrate, but hes watching on his computer screen as the numbers roll in. Proposition eight was at the ballot, Vote Initiative essentially strip gay and lesbians of the right to marry in california. They briefly enjoy that right after the California Supreme Court said it was a matter of state constitution. The