Julian Bond: “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.

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.

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.