Julian Bond: “I am, regretfully, limited by having to be at a markup in a subcommittee I chair, and I will limit my remarks to about…”

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.

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.

Full equality, it means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys.

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