Julian Bond: “Yes, I believe the entire provision, including subsection (c), should apply to adoption or enforcement of standards or…”

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.

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

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.

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.