dismantle proposition eight in california

a few state representatives are feeling in power to change laws in their states

regarding same sex marriage

one of those representatives is ab representative patricia todd in alabama

and alabama is one of those dates in has eight ban on same sex marriage but she

is going to be a warrior and fight against that so the state

uh... changes its mind i'd it's gonna be really difficult for her to do that

because as you can imagine alabama's very conservative state she says the

following

uh... the reality is unfortunately in alabama the only way we can ever

progress any civil rights in the state is through a court decision

this is no different

we will have to use that process to move forward uh... so she is our planning on

taking this all the way the supreme court i don't know if it's going to get

to that point but hopefully it will uh... and

i think that she brings up a good point and it's a point that's been brought up

a lot since late yesterday scrolling

there needs to be

something done federally

to protect same sex marriage and i know that there's a small argument about

states' rights

but my argument to that would be that this is a civil rights issue these are

people that are born with the sexuality that they

and i think that it is against our constitution to discriminate against

them

based on their sexuality well i agree unfortunately based on the actual ruling

the actual text in the ruling we are now less likely to see some sort of federal

protection for same sex marriage than we were before yesterday

uh... because they did say that you know that that that dole of violated certain

legal protection for applause that could be used as

an argument for federal action to protect same-sex marriage but

unfortunately they also made very clear the supreme court currently considers

that the bsc matter

and so worried that unfortunately where even less likely now just a reminder

that is terrible that i i i hate that part of the rolling because again it's a

civil rights issue it's not states rights issue the i don't think that

anything should be able to discover a disagreeable people based on something

that they're bored with him

and so we will not make the argument that hey gay people choose their

sexuality and they're wrong that so certain people make the case that the

earth is flat

we don't allow those people to control the destiny of the most powerful country

in the history of the world exactly uh... but yeah there's there's so much

there's so much stupidity and specifics

specific alabama here unfortunately so you know the baby intern in our

constitution but previously

the law had been they gays could not get married then they added a recently to

the constitution with eighty-one percent voting to add to the constitution yeah

that is that's just a horrible and look idea

i love our viewers from alabama but you should probably consider moving to

another state i'd be with that but at the same time i will say that any if you

look back that did not vote happened in two thousand six

uh... in two thousand six

was our world ago for the gay rights movement and i'm not trying to make

excuses for alabama at all i i think that it's wrong but i think the public

opinion even in a conservative state like alabama must have shifted at least

a little bit yeah eighty one percent is like

you know the vast majority i'd like to think that it's gotten a little better

yeah i i don't know i mean i think that that we will see continue evolution on

this issue in different states but

i think that alabama possibly mississippi like it's gonna be sydney

one of those things were every other state passes an end to decades later

people at break in the states