Julian Bond: “I particularly commend my good friend from Texas for pointing out what we in the Midwest, as well as the Southwest, feel…”

I know the tide is changing. I can see from poll results where the support for same-sex marriage used to be minimal. It grew. It grew and grew.

Full equality means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys. If everybody else in the country enjoys rights one, two, three and four, you have got to enjoy those rights too.

Well, I think it is. I mean any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.

I don't think so. I think this -- in African-American communities, like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting, people are thinking differently.