Julian Bond: “All Americans ought to enjoy civil rights, and whatever the court does today, we are going to move a step closer to…”

Just as we did not allow segregation to be decided state by state.

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

Of course, it is exactly the same. It's a right that all Americans have and no reason why gay and lesbian people ought not to have these rights too. These are universal rights.

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.