pension age they ve introduced quotas for women on boards that was the gay marriage vote they didn t seem to get any credit for it and this is this is in some ways angela merkel s great achievement she s very good at appropriating social democratic achievements for herself you know you hear it said sometimes in berlin that germany has to social democratic parties and so you know if you are social democrat and you look and you think we ve been in government with angela merkel for eight of twelve years in total and it s been we ve received very little credit for it and i think especially if the party gets less than twenty three percent of the election on sunday which is its record low election results in two thousand and nine i think people will ask you know we re going to be a wreck by the end of this if we have another four years with maybe better go back into a position refresh regenerate think of think hard about germany s challenges maybe bring forward some new younger leaders and t
catholic, spain largely catholic. uruguay. we can go down the list. brazil. catholic countries have been leading the way on marriage equality. it might be not in sync with the catholic church but catholics disagree with the church on divorce, on contraception. now this will be another issue. the vatican says ireland, gay marriage vote is a defeat for humanity. i want to make sure i said that accurately. it wasn t the pope himself it was a vatican official. yes. i always love it when nonmarried men who have committed themselves to a church give advice on marriage. we ll leave it there. you don t have to say anything. your new book is out. we really love it and we hope you do great with the new book it s not over it s not over michael. not over at all. getting beyond tolerance, defeating homophobia and winning true equality. thanks for coming on. up next threats against passenger planes headed to the
employees. we have 80 employees right now or over 80 around 80 that we re seeking disfully nation action against. yesterday gloria steinem and other women attempted to march across the demilitarized zone in south north korea. and from bitten s the mirror bono hails ireland gay marriage vote as triumph for love. they played a song for the ruling. bono told the crowd millions turned out to vote yesterday to say love is the highest law in the land. they celebrated after the concert posting this picture with the hash tag vote yes. and that s your morning dish of scrambled politics. let s go to washington now and
think it was, two years ago now, three years ago now. and there were four republicans in the state senate that went along. and the business community rallied behind them. they said, we want this too. and two lost their primaries. there was a consequence for the very few republicans in new york state who came out and said, i m for this. they did pay a price for it. those were weak candidates, though. that s a good example, but there s a lot more to that than just the gay marriage vote. i haven t seen it yet where anybody s really paying a price. a lot of these peep are paper tigers. so what s the culture like so we think of illinois, you know, mark kirk, a moderate republican senator and big jen thompson, moderate republican you have a moderate republican tradition. but is there a growing the movement that pushed you out, are conservatives a lot more powerful than they were a decade ago? let s go back even further. the land of lincoln an an abolitionist party. we ran on the
older sister, 14-year-old adrienne. mayes was a family friend of the bain s and a relative says he believed he was the girl s biological father. cnn s george haul is live in atlanta with more details for us. okay we re going to mind your business instead this morning. u.s. stock futures are down right now, indicating markets here are expected to open lower this morning. lots of uncertainty in the markets this week over instability in greece and overall concerns about growth of the economy. one stock taking a beating overnight, morgan chase, did you hear about that? it s down about 6% in pre-market trading right now and last night, the bank s ceo announced a $2 billion loss in april over some badly hedged bets. in an apology to the boss from the vice president, senior administration officials say joe biden has apologized to president obama for painting him into a corner on the same-sex marriage issue. cnn s jessica yellin broke that story for us. biden came out in support of