Julian Bond: “My understanding from the cloakrooms is there are Members who have phoned in their concerns about moving to 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.

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.

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.