Julian Bond: “Because we also found in there a reference that there was a meeting and two contacts.”

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.

John Lewis has said it better than anyone could have said it.

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.

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.