[ ♪ music ♪ ] [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> john: good evening. the supreme court kills the homophobic defense of marriage act. and it's worth mentioning all four supreme court justices who voted to keep doma are all men who wear long black dresses. and the filibuster that would stop the ban in texas state. we'll point out how jesus was anti-death penalty but never mentioned abortion. but that's only if you believe what is in the bible. and the daily show creator and emmy winner rick overton. today is the birthday of derek

jeter and mick jones of the clash, and it is the ten-year anniversary of the supreme court ruling that sodomy laws are unconstitutional. i'm so happy i'm going to go straight marriage. this is "viewpoint." [ ♪ music ♪ ] >> john: good evening i'm john fugelsang. thank you so much for joining us. this is "viewpoint." so how often do you get to say the supreme court handed down two important decisions today and the crowd went wild? [ cheering ] >> john: i haven't seen people that happy since the supreme court made milli vanilli give back the grammy. the crowd ruled after the court

ruled in favor of gay couples rights to get married and enjoy the same federal benefits and responsibilities as straight married couples. we're going to take those decisions one at a time. in the first windsor versus the united states. a 5-4 majority struck down the defense of marriage act, or doma saying that it violate the gay couples fifth amendment rights to equal protection under the law. writing the majority justice anthony kennedy said, doma was invalid because no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state by its marriage laws south to protect in personhood and dignity. in feverish dissent emperor palpatine's chief legal adviser justice antonin scalia warned

marriage equality opponents that by formerly declaring anyone opposed to the same-sex marriage an enemy of human december sent. the majority arms well very challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition. we'll talk about that in a moment. we'll talk about the widow whose case broke doma's back. here is some of what she had to say today. >> because of today's supreme court ruling the federal government can no longer dis discrime thought against the marriages of gay and lesbian americans. if i had to survive thea, what a glorious way to do it, and she would have been so breezed. thank you all. >> i think we should be thanking you. in a second ruling a different 5-4 court majority ruled challengers who had appealed a decision against california's gay marriage ban, of course prop 8 lacked a legal standing to proceed.

the ruling allowed an earlier apellet decision that prop 8 was an constitution to stand. lacking back at lawrence versus texas that made same-sex activity legal, and said there was more to come. >> our plaintiffs now getting to back to california, and together with every other citizen of california marry the person they love. the next step is to translate the promise that was in lawrence, and it was reaffirmed today in the doma case that every citizen in every state has the right to marry the person that they love. >> john: for more we're delighted to be joined by this triumphant day by jean podrasky, gay rights activist with a family tie to the supreme court she's chief justice john

robert's cousin. thank you for joining us tonight. where were you when the two decisions came down today and how did you feel when you heard about them? >> well, remember that i live on the west coast. i live in san francisco, so the decisions came down at 7:00 my time. i was still in my pajamas on my couch with my partner watching tv and watching it. >> john: were you surprised by the prop 8 ruling? and what does that do for you personally as a california resident? >> i was stunned. i had no idea that roberts would split the ruling like that. i was absolutely stunned. of course now that prop 8 is overturned i can now get married. >> john: so what was your response when prop 8 passed? a lot of people forget the night that president obama first elected to the white house i was at a party hosted by a lesbian friend in los angeles. as everybody was celebrating

upstairs, i was downstairs looking online about prop 8. what did you do five years ago when this first happened? >> no, it was really almost instant. we cheered for barack obama. we were celebrating, and then immediately after that it passed. it was a kick in the stomach. it was awful. and we knew days before that it was going to be close. so we knew that this was not a landslide in either way. we knew it was a nail-biter, but i absolutely was devastated. >> john: well, i've heard rumor there is somewhat of a gay and lesbian activist contingent in san francisco how did you feel when you saw that your cuss chief justice roberts dechinad to join the majority in the ruling of the defense of marriage act? >> we're talking about doma now.

i was stunned. in the rulings he did one in our favor and one against. i want to say that i'm honestly disappointed. i wish he had voted the other way on doma. i think he's sticking with his conservative values. >> john: he did invite you and your partner to attend the hearings at the supreme court? >> i want to correct that. >> john: please. >> he--i asked for the tickets. he agreed. he let me have the tickets. so it wasn't as if he were giving out tickets left and right. i asked for them, and he gave them to me. so i feel--i will always feel quite honored that he didn't veto me, and he did give us the tickets. >> john: i think that's a great piece of history in this story. you told the l.a. plans that you plan to marry your partner later this year at lake tahoe. i have to ask the million dollar question, do you plan to invite

your cousin chief justice roberts. >> we just learned of this ruling today. i know i will rule family, but i can't say that the guest list was printed out. >> john: that was very diplomatic, you should work in government. thank you for your time. >> thank you, thank you so much. >> john: to break down the court rulings and look ahead to what they may mean for the future, i'm really happy to bring on an all-star paternal. richard socarides a former senior adviser to president clinton and contributor to new yorker.com. and tico almeida is a founder and president of freedom to work. and suzanne goldberg, a columbia law school professor and director of the schools center for gender and sexuality law. i what did the court accomplish

with these rulings, and in striking down doma in particular. >> the court accomplished a great deal. it removed the part of doma that blocked the federal government of recognizing same sex marriages. this means that states that allow same-sex couples to mayor will now be recognized by the federal government. it's an enormous step forward. >> richard and tico i want to weigh in on this as well. how would you weigh in on today's decisions. >> it's a sweeping opinion in the marriage act case. it was close 5-4 but here are five justices of the united states supreme court reaffirming on behalf of the alcohol country the dignity of gay and lesbian relationships, and going forward it will be very hard to justify

any discrimination against gay americans. >> john: tico? >> it was a historic win, a win for all americans. and within half an hour of the supreme court decision we already saw a concrete example of how gay and lesbian families are kept together by this huge victory. an immigration case out of new york immigration courts already prevented the deportation of a gay columbian man who is legally married to a new yorker because of this decision the immigration judge got the 77-page decision in front of him. he stopped that deportation this is going to have huge impacts for real american families gay families that have long been harmed by this oweddous disgusting law. >> john: i think tico is right. the ripple effects are going to continue in the days to come. back then when we opposed doma, we were called liberal turns

out we were just prematurely mainstreamed. as you wrote today, back then it had no practical effect because there were no states that recognized state equality. how much damage did doma do to american citizens over the past 17 years? >> well, as you pointed out when it was enacted in 1996, it had no practical affect effect because you couldn't be married anywhere, but as more states adopted same-sex marriage, we've seen over the years the damage, the discrimination that this was doing to real people and the misery it was causing was becoming very apparent. the law was very unpopular and that's why one of the reasons the supreme court was able to so dramatically strike it down. >> john: susan, i'm sure you agree when the republican senator who helped design this law disowned it himself earlier this year, were you surprised

that the court overturned it, and how damaging do you think it's been? >> i think it's been tremendously damaging. i'm not surprised that the court overturned doma, but i was surprised and enheartened in the language that they used. they talked about the damage against same same-sex couples. it talked about it being degrading. we have the court getting it and striking it down for equality, but embracing the idea that same-sex marriage couples are and should be of equal dignity. >> i think that is once again as susan often does, that is really the key point. the court could have very easily said as the court often does, well it seems to violate this, violate that, and you can't do that, but the court really went

out of its way again using very emotional language, very affirming language to say not that this was just improper, but that this was really degrading and demeaning and really not what this country was about. it was as much a political statement as it was the the anunsation of new doctrine. >> the doma case in particular would have a ripple affect as they would knock down anti-laws across the country. justice scalia seemed more unhinge than usual at that possibility. >> i was in such a good mood today that i specifically chose not to read the scalia opinion. i'm saving it for tomorrow. i did not want that bigot to

bring down my mood. >> john: when you read it it will bring your heart rate up so much, it will be considered cardio. >> that's for tomorrow. this is one concrete example. this decision will lower taxes for gay couples. maybe that's the hook to get republicans to calm down. if you're a same sex employee, and your employer provides insurance coverage for your spouse, you have a higher tax burden than an equivalent straight couple. 25 days from now when doma is truly and finally dead that goes away. we'll have a tax savings for healthcare provideed benefits. across the border there are things in the u.s. code, and in countless ways gay and lesbian familiars will be far better off in terms of our pocketbooks, and

having a law and code that affirms our love for each other. >> john: it's truly inspiring one justice who upheld dom waxer was he himself was in a marriage that would have been illegal years ago. when will it be legal in all 50 states, and if not what is the law that will hold them back? >> it will happen. it's not happening tomorrow. >> john: in our lifetime? >> i think so. >> john: mississippi? >> i don't think by virtue of the mississippi legislature but i do think the nation--the arc bends towards equality. what we saw this week, the supreme court doesn't always get it. it hasn't gotten it on race discrimination, on many issues, the employment discrimination

among others. but it will get there. who would have thought there would be same-sex marriage in iowa. >> definitely in our life sometime unless you're planning on going somewhere rather quickly. >> john: utah? >> i think what you saw in the comment that you played was now plaintiffs either in courts across america, all of these states will go forward and say based upon this decision today we have a right to same-sex marriage in all of these other states. it will take a while for it to work its way through the court but i bet you in five years from today same-sex marriage legal in all 50 states. >> wow do you think we can look for it to be in all 50 states? >> i hopeful he's right but we are working for the freedom to work act which will prevent someone from being fired for being gay.

equality begets equality. when we get one victory it leads to other victories. >> cenk: it's a day that grand parents will tell their grandkids about, and what is hipper than having gay grandparents. richard socaides, and jean podrasky, and ti co almeida thank you for joining us. come next we'll talk about the energy in the future of america. in other words, the future of america. stick around.

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>> john: welcome back. now, you don't want to miss this. president obama as you know hopes to clean up the environment with his new energy plan but some americans couldn't wait for the feds to act. and why should they? a new documentary called "bidder 70" shows one man who took matters into his own hands. he took a land auction that was

open for drilling. >> he said are you here to be a bidder? [ . >> environmentalist through an controversial oil and gas lease option into turmoil today. >> he said he's willing to go to jail and it's possible that that's where he'll wind up. >> i think it's fair to say that you're unrepent tonight? >> yes. >> now tim christopher served 21 months in prison for standing up up. rejoined us as "bidder 70th continues to roll out across america. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> john: it's a pleasure having you. five years ago the bush administration auctions off this land. you go to disrupt it. what happens? >> well, i first kind of had no plan for what i was going to do. i knew i wanted to cause some kind of disruption. i had been building a general

commitment towards civil disobedience thought that it needed something like that. when i walked in, they said are you here to be a bidder? i said yes i am. once inside i saw there was an opportunity. i started bidding and winning every parcel until they finally stopped the auction and tack me out. i said i was there in an act of civil disobedience to stop what i felt was an illegal action, a fraud against the american people and a threat to my future. >> john: you went there through none violence resistence. you had no money in your pocket. >> mm-hmm. >> john: and you weren't planning on bidding when you you showed up, and then you purchased $2 million worth of land. >> yes. >> john: despite the fact that you don't have $2 million? >> yes. >> john: what happened next? >> they interrogated me and released me, and i started telling the story why i did what i did u and why i think these

actions were necessary to to tell our government about climate change. they charged two indictments against me and that kicked off a legal process where i continueed as an activist and continued to organize regarding climate change. i finally served to years in prison. >> john: did you feel safer knowing that a criminal like you was locked up behind bars. >> not exactly. >> john: we should know that the auction, because of your interference, couldn't be rescheduled, and once president obama took over interior secretary ken salazar dis dismissed the sales saying that they cut rules. when did you realize that your act of civil disobedience really did make a difference? >> actually, it was before then. that's when i realized that it was successful in that goal of keeping that oil in the ground, block that particular auction.

but even before that i started to see that perhaps the more important objective of my action that i didn't even understand going into it was the impact on other people and its impact on the climate movement. you know, i thought it was taking the radical point where people wouldn't agree with me but the folks who are doing more moderate things on climate change they're not the extremists here, but that's not what happened. i think people were ready for civil disobedience at that point. and kind of my role in the climate movement after that coincided with this period where the climate movement was looking for a new strategy in the face of the failure of the big green strategy of appeasing those in power and making allies with corporate polluters. that strategy failed in 2009. we've had this exact shift in the climate movement to be more aggressive more honest and have more principled and articulated

vision of where we wanted to go. >> john: is that because of people like yourself or people on the top gun to get it. applications people like bloomberg, this president what have you? >> i think i played a small role in t but i think it's from a lot of people from the bottom who started thinking more strategically as a social movement. one of the big shifts we've seen is the rise of the climate justice movement from communities that has continued to build, continued to put more pressure. i mean just monday, the day before obama gave his climate speech this week, in oklahoma there were ten people arrested blockading the co-stone construction. in there were dozens of people who blocked trucks who stopped them dumping their pollution into the river. this is continuing day after day. >> john: what is more important? the slowing down of the machine or the awareness that the acts of civil disobedience generates?

>> i think they go hand in hand. i think everything that we called has symbolic value and i think they're equally important. i think the fact that people are putting themselves on the line and taking real risks is one of the most powerful education opportunities because people really want to understand that then when they see people putting themselves in harm's way. they want to know why. there is a natural instinct there and they're more open than they normally are when they are blockading any facts and figures saying that's a liberal issue. they don't want to hear it, they're open to the civil disobedience. >> john: i was not surprised when nobody in administration agreed to be in your film but i'm happy about the film. what is next now? >> i'm going tour around this summer. relax after getting out of prison, and then i'll study to become an unitarian minister.

>> john: i think you really do have a ministry, and you should proud. i guess you're doing all this so matt damon can play you in the movie. it's a bit uncanny. he's buying the rights right now. "bidder 70" national rollout will continue this weekend. it will be on pay-per-view soon? >> i'm not sure. >> john: check your netflix. where can people find out more on your work. >> bidder 70.org. >> john: thank you for joining us. we'll have an educational segment, stick around. a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a

dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day. i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right?

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i guess fear of the jedi mind trick is the reason for alaska's state education slogan, a mine is a terrible thing to have. concerns about a common core education standards were raced by the tea matter affiliateed heartland institute. wtf, alaska, having the charles koch foundation to analyze your education system. it's and a case of federal overreach. thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar.

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>> john: welcome back. joining me now for a fun held conversation about the supreme court's monumental decisions is a very brilliant panel please welcome to the show for the first time emmy winner rick

overton, and the lovely and talentedded liztalented liz. it's great to have you here. you all heard earlier guy rights activist gene podraski, cousin of our chief justice and we were discussing the court decision to cut down doma. were you surprised by the decision? >> no, i think it went like everybody thought it was going to go. i think everybody realized that doma was unconstitutional, they would kickback prop 8 to the state, and voila that's what happened. >> john: at least clarence thomas is standing firm. >> when they overrule god, i don't know.

>> john: we'll get to that. mr. overton, practice you as a heterosexual pleased by today's decision. >> very pleased, also as a minister i'm prepared to do weddings. this is a time when even the republicans say what you will about them, they recognize the number games. they know when things are turning especially since their party is a clown card jammed with closeted people. >> john: jeff, what did you think of today's celebration? >> i also was not surprised. rick brings up a great point. it's not just a numbers game but an numbers game without issue. they have nothing to stand on. other issues maybe you can justify what they're doing but there is no harm here. it's purely a red flag to rally the base. >> john: speak for itself. my marriage is hinging by a thread. this has been a devastating blow to heterosexuals.

>> aaah. >> isn't that really, the biggest thing. the supreme court said on prop 8, yeah, just because you're kind of a jerk and you don't like them. >> john: exactly. be a bigot and die off. >> people who lives in a state that you're never going to--that you don't know would like to go to pta meetings and never have sex again. maybe you're the one who shouldn't be able to get married. if your relationship is so weak, and this is going to destroy your foundation? >> john: you have to remember, people opposed same sex marriages tend to be trapped in lame-sex marriages. i want to share a few comments with you. this is what former governor mike huckabee had to say. jesus wept. there he goes, confusing jesus with scalia. the and michele bachmann issued

this statement, marriage was created by the hand of god. no man, not even a supreme court can undo what a holy god has instituted. man invented marriage. god invented the gay people, and finally eric canter said he's disappointed in this decision, and the marriage debate will continue in his states and i like his voice because he sounds like a gay southern man. what do we think of folks across the aisle. >> oh do these religious people not understand that god reads their tweets? they call themselves religious but they don't follow god on twitter. this is fake religious in twitter and saying hateful crap. >> god works for the nsa. >> god works under the nsa. >> what i don't understand why the bigots aren't happy about this decision.

within one form or another when gay people marry they can't pro crete.create. there willing be less. >> the final business like pragmatism is coming in, and what they're afraid of in the past, i think the right wing conflict is the church is at verse to gay marriage because gay people don't manufacture new people going to church because the church keeps manufacturerring gay people. >> this is creepily dovetailing something that i'm not comfortable. the number of women who will not be having babies will gone "g" down. >> john: this decision will not wipe out bigotry just like brown versus board of ed did not wipe it out. do you think there are people on that side who are holding down

because they think its virtuous. they think jesus had something to say about gay people and it didn't. >> i think the rate of change socially has been so rapid that we lose sight if something doesn't happen in a week or a month. but what the court has said is that it's wrong. people will disagree with it now, but through the course of generations dinner conversations uncles that are jerks, it will trickle down where we won't have this debate. >> john: we always will have those who hang onto the by got try. >> i think we won't always have them. people will die and they will go away. when go to d.c. i mean, and you see how many closeted republicans staffers there are it's just unending, that it's just all going to come out. eventually when you live and breathe and work and grow and share among people, you want them to be the happiest that

they can be. and that is eventuallyish. >> john: if you're happy you want others to be happy. i hope zenophobic americans can find a new group to hate. don't go away. we'll talk about the texas filibuster heard around the world. you don't want to miss it. pap

this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal, or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i'm given to doing anyway, by staying in touch with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. in reality it's not like they actually care. this is purely about political grandstanding. i've worn lots of hats, but i've always kept this going. i've been doing politics now for a dozen years. (vo) he's been called the epic politics man. he's michael shure and his arena is the war room. >> these republicans in congress that think the world ends at the atlantic ocean border and pacific ocean border. the bloggers and the people that are sort of compiling the best of the day.

i do a lot of looking at those people as well. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people, but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them right? >> john: okay. it's you funner during the commercial breaks. let's turn to texas and state senator democrats you'll be hear more from this lady, wendy davis. she started a filibuster for 11 hours could deep the closing of almost every abortion clinic in the state. >> i'm coming to the floor today to humbly give voice to thousands of texans who have been ignored. these are texans who relied on the minority members of this

senate in order for their voices to be heard. >> john: 11 hours standing in her pink sneakers with no water no bathroom break, and just speaking about this single issue and nothing else until republicans claimed she strayed off topic breaking texas filibuster rules which allowed majority to end her filibuster. then it got crazy. republicans scrambled to pass the bill but were unable to get the passing done before the midnight deadline. i welcome back my panel, i kept checking twitter and she was still going at it. today lawmakers will meet again and try to get this thing passed by july 1st. it seems to have been a brief victory for the cause. is this going to mobilize the pro women's were productive

rights base in a way has not happened before and they have a new hero now? >> i think so. i think the best news about this is people will look at their own states and say what creepy legislation have i not been paying attention to. oregon is the only state that "n" the country that has not curved back, only oregon. after texas we'll look at ohio, and then michigan who has the super abortion bill. it's just insane. so i hope that women in each of these states will realize and we also have to remember that she was called out three times on the filibuster for going off topic. once she brought up planned parenthood. once she proud up transvaginal, and once she road up roe. >> john: how off top. >> okay. she was told to stop talking by men who probably couldn't have physically done what she did talk for 11 hours

let alone give birth. if men had to carry babies to birth, abortion would be mandatory. >> john: what do you think of this. >> if you compare it to rand paul, he got the tap out. he had people pinch hit for him being he goes to eat snacks. >> john: this is the real thing. >> this is the version that you don't get your rand paul comparison simply because he was there some of the time. she beats him poker hand, you lose. >> harry reid, that's how it douse, and that kind of filibustering inspires people. you know the vote that would be placed on wednesday, but it was clanged to tuesday and then back to wednesday which begs the question did someone in texas tamper with official state documents in order to beat the clock?

>> the republicans literally took us back in time. [ laughing. >> john: liz winston yes yes. >> she was going on, and she was speaking about we were going backwards, but for real. >> i thought the best thing about that joke was the fact that this was a classic goose and gander. the republicans were done in by filibustering and the surveillance state. they were caught on this because everybody could see the electron electronic printout. they count do the sneaky things. they were hoisted on their own pitard if you can use that phrase. >> john: we have the white house controlled by the g.o.p. under george w. bush we had the house, senate and white house controlled by the republicans for six years. they could have defunded planned parenthood day one if they wanted to. they didn't, they didn't care about it. they useed it to raise funds. on a national level they never

do. could we look at this more on a state level. are these guys true believers or are they doing it to get votes. >> the scary thing about this yes it's going to happen on state level. over 1,000 bills have been proposed on the state level to curb back issues. the other thing, too, what happens is you get your koch-funded candidates, your sheldon adelson candidates who not only do the biting of these crazy bills and get them past by true believers. what they're there to do is to be the pawn to say we have women's votes up. how are we going to change the rules. all of this is stuff is a smokescreen because they know women pay attention. now women have to pay attention on two fronts, the women reproduction issues and the

issues that ruin people's lives. >> john: on the new york city mayoral race, christine quinn is losing steam to anthony weiner. and the poll released today said weiner leads quinn 25% to 20% among registered democrats. again that's only 45% of the people who can vote, but what are we thinking about this rise for weiner. rick start your puns. >> well, i think he's been very handy with using a lot of quinn's format. she said all kids to get a tablet. he's going to say all kids want a tablet and show my penis. and then remember my penis with the it's not proportionate to my little body. >> john: you say that helps him? >> he's the kim kardashian candidate. notoriety matters more than substance.

no one knows. >> look, i am with randy. >> john: randy? he's been on this show. >> i know, randy shouldic on every debate and on the ballot because he's talking about poverty. he's talking about stop and frisk. he is talking about how to live in new york where real new yorkers live, living wage, i love randy. >> of course, he's a millionaire like bloomberg. >> john: there is that. >> but i think anthony weiner, i think that just shows you how weak this mayoral slate is. >> john: i will tell you, he was a fiery charismatic member of congress. he was not popular with his fellow congressmen but he was popular with those who watched msnbc. >> john: don't go away. we'll be back in a minute to talk more about what texas is trying to do forral y'all.

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you know who is coming on to me now? you know the kind of guys that do reverse mortgage commercials? those types are coming on to me all the time now. (vo) she gets the comedians laughing and the thinkers thinking. >>ok, so there's wiggle room in the ten commandments, that's what you're saying. you would rather deal with ahmadinejad than me. >>absolutely. >> and so would mitt romney. (vo) she's joy behar. >>and the best part is that current will let me say anything. what the hell were they thinking? >> john: okay, quick question for our panelists, if you could gay marry one person of your gender who would it be? rick overton. >> since the republicans are sending us back in time, and i can feel the new growth coming in i would head back in time and marry buck minister fuller. >> where is that? >> either way it's a sexless marriage with a lot of interesting conversation. >> and no walls grounded.

>> we would have a ball. >> you would have a ball. >> john: who would you gay marry? >> i think ana bancroft because she is hot and she could tell me amazing stories about funny people. >> john: jeff? >> i think i would gay marry thurgood marshal. on a day of civil rights. >> john: very inspiring and i'm sure the late justice would be appalled. dear republican texas legislature. all america is talking about that bill that would have virtually banned abortion and closed nearly every clinic in your beautiful state and how y'all missed the voting deadline due in to small part of a filibuster by wendy davis of forth worth. she spoke 11 hours and wore a back brace since the rules prevented her from leaning back for support.

but you all got to watch one woman suffer for hours. it was widely reported that you guys in the conservative majority had these flyers on your desk that read psalm 139 which reads in part, you covered me in my mother's womb i will praise you because i'm fearfully and wonderfully made. i respect that you want to protect the unborn, but the bible does not come out against abortion. they all stated life does not begin until human draws their first breath and give bizarre abortion rituals when a woman is impregnated by another man. and sending a flood of every unborn child at the time of noah god is the least pro-life person in the bible. and jesus never mentions abortion, not once. do you know what jesus did?

he came out against the death penalty. texas has carried out 40% of the executions in this country since capital punishment resumed in 1976. your former governor governor bush held the most executioning governor in history until he was topped by your current governor comedy legend rick perry. which brings me to a woman kimberly mccarthy was put to death in huntsville, texas. the first woman executed in america since 2010 and the 500th person killed in the great state of texas. this jesus you claim to follow, not a huge fan of killing the sinner. everybody's favorite radical long haired brown skinned revolutionary jew never said forgive us of our trespasses as we inject those who trespass against us. he told peter to forgive those

70 times 70. that's 490 times. then you have jesus saying he among you cast the first stone. and he leaves wiggle room for those to carry out executions, and now the funny thing is if there was no death penalty jesus might still be here. and the states strapping a citizen to a table and poisoning him until he dies doesn't get more big government than that. i didn't write it, texas and you're free to do whatever you want to ban abortions. you could be serious about preventing unwanted pregnancying oh for fewer abortions but if you're not pro-life. you're pro some life. and pro-lifers who are for death penalties you're like vegetarians who eat meat. that's our show, thanks, the

great brilliant rick overton liz winston and jeff kriesler. this has been "viewpoint." we're still here. we'll see you tomorrow. good night mom. >> joy: tonight, is nsa whistle blower snowden a traitor or hero? and why does he avoid prosecution going to china? plus the new poll approve more of george w. bush than they do president obama. i guess absence does make the heart dumber. and a man who alleges to have having an affair with michael jackson. tonight on say anything. [ ♪ theme music ♪ ]