Julian Bond: “Yes. If my colleague wants to make a brief statement, I will be happy to yield to him.”

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.

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.

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