window on these issues, you really understand how they move. i have to say that there are real couples across the united states who do not have 25 year windows. i think about the struggle for partner ship recognition. because people need the tools to protect their families, whether that s hospital visitation rights, whether it s coverage on family insurance offered through one employer of one of the spouses, whether that is a parental rights that flow from adoption or birth. all of these things are critical and a marriage who ticket confers a whole host of rights and civil abilities which were denied to same-sex couples and frankly in years prior to interracial couples. this respect for marriage act ensure that moving forward people that have certainty that their marriages will remain valid and people who marry in the future will have the opportunity to enjoy the
states who do not have 25 year windows. i think about the struggle for partner ship recognition. because people need the tools to protect their families, whether that s hospital visitation rights, whether it s coverage on family insurance offered through one employer of one of the spouses, whether that is a parental rights that flow from adoption or birth. all of these things are critical and a marriage who ticket confers a whole host of rights and civil abilities which were denied to same-sex couples and frankly in years prior to interracial couples. this respect for marriage act ensure that moving forward people that have certainty that their marriages will remain valid and people who marry in the future will have the opportunity to enjoy the obligations and benefits that marriage confers. how urgent was this
that point? the parents are teaching their kids something so pernicious. it can imagine teaching your kids to lie and cheat and then when the kid says all their life and went to the school it s like but shannon: you ve got to see where they can hang in academically. such a juicy story. we will keep talking about it, thank you all. our devout christians too extreme to be judges? you ve seen it on capitol hill. now meet the judge who opponents say is too bigoted for the benc bench. she worked alongside an extremist hate group to try to strip hospital visitation rights away from gay partners. shannon: says he has no plans to back down from what he s calling an attack on his face. he joins us live next. [music playing] (vo) this is jerry.
point? parents teaching their kids something so pernicious. imagine teaching your kids to lie and cheat and the kid probably says all their life i went to the school but shannon: you got to see if they can hang in academically. thank you all. are devout christians too extreme to be judges? a wisconsin judge whose opponents say is too bigoted for the bench. he worked alongside an extremist hate group to strip hospital visitation rights away from gay partners. shannon: no plans to back down from what he is calling an attack on his faith. he joins us live next.
my administration has been guided by that idea. that s why we stopped defending the so-called defense of marriage act and why we re pleased when the court finally struck down the central provision of that discriminatory law. it s why we ended don t ask, don t tell. from extending full marital benefits to federal employees and their spouses to extending hospital visitation rights for lgbt patients and their loved ones we advanced quality for those that were unimaginable not too long ago. i know change for many of our lgbt brothers and sisters must have seemed so slow for so long. but compared to so many other issues, america s shift has been so quick. i know that americans of good will continue to hold a wide