Julian Bond: “I very much appreciate his efforts to bring up the Birth Defects Prevention Act, which would deal with a very serious…”

I don't think so. I think this -- in African-American communities, like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting, people are thinking differently.

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.

All Americans ought to enjoy civil rights, and whatever the court does today, we are going to move a step closer to everyone enjoying these rights.