today begins kwan displ displ a.f the holiday are unity, self- determination, collective work, economics, creativity, purpose and earth. >>> time is running out to submit your homested tax credit applications. the deadline is december 31st. this is a tax credit that up until now you would get automatically. but in 2007 the state legislature passed a law requiring all homeowners to submit an application. we had a five-year grace period. that's over. so now you have to fill out that form. >>> time now for a check of what's going on outside. mike, it has begun. >> it has begun, a lot of heavy sleet along 95 right now, along 40 you're dealing with that, really from the city on points to the south. it is raining out over the eastern shore and it is now coming down as some snow out toward the west, right along 70 going out towards fredrick, some pretty heavy snow coming down. not expecting an accumulation for the city, along 95. but outside of town two to three inches and it will really stack up out towards western marylan

gina suspects if the tea party put on that displ, forget about it. you're right.f this is not a double standard, man, i don't know what is. >> i don't either, neil, and you watch this and the hypocrisy, and you hink, what is it going to take for the public to perceive the double standard here, exactly as you described it. if this had happened at a tea party rally or a gun owners of america rally or any kind of conservative rally, you and i both know, neil, it would hav been splashed against every television screen, every newspaper, worldwide, probably internationally, and, yet, the mainstream media lays down for this. they got their lap dogs. it is what it is. neil: you know, i think consistency, just be fair to all. if you think that, you know, these protests when violence are bad, then make a point of saying they are violence no matter who agents up enacting them, but what worried me about that is say fox, zero coverage of it. zero. >> reporter: that's the scary part, neil, and i'm glad y'all are making this point. the tea party just took a bad hit in the last e

displs -- >> host: it's important to some people, but the other thing, john, is this is so important, that why is it when gay marriage is available, it's really only a small minority of gay people who enter relationships? >> guest: that's a complicated question, and i can speak from my own experience. i live in michigan where i'm not permitted to marry, and, in fact, we are constitutionally prohibited to have heritage or similar yiewn your -- union purpose, the terrible language of our constitution. mark and i talked about getting married, say, in new york, where i'm from or another state just to, but there are complications in terms of depending on what said you then end up living in. >> host: i understand, but it's not legal where you live. the question is in places like canada or netherlands, you know, for a number of years now, and no more than 10% of people enter legal unions. >> guest: i think that's partly because in many cases, couples have already cobbled together certain limited legal structures to the extent that they can. mark and i have a big expensive binder at home, and