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.
Julian Bond explains what he believes full equality means in the context of rights for gays and lesbians.
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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.
I don't think so. I think this -- and African-American communities like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting.
When the president says he's for something, it doesn't mean it is going to happen. It just means we now know what he feels and how he thinks about it.
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.
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