speaker of the house mark ferrandino.rs caught up with him. >> you are not protecting the kids in passing jessica's law. why is that? >> no d.a.s. the d.a.'s opposed jessica's law. so have victims rights groups. >> 48 other states have jessica's laws and you guys think you are smarter. is that true? >> no. think we know what's in colorado's best interest. i will go with the people of colorado who are the ones in the trench fighting, this prosecuting people who don't support jessica's law and say we have tougher laws than jessica's laws in colorado. thank you. >> you are lucky o'reilly wasn't here today. >> and he is. dan, what's going on out there, really? what is behind the failure to even allow jessica's law to be voted upon? >> bill, i think what's going on is colorado has not turned to the left but the left has become a lot better at winning elections in colorado now the state capitol animal house down there binging and not reflecting the people of this state i think what they did on jessica's law ties right into the

ferrandino to the national audience i said he was openly gay, which he is.he denver post" which editorialized on sunday, quote: it may not surprise to you learn that a fact challenge bigoted line of attack came courtesy of a fox news channel talking head specifically bill o'reilly. o'reilly's fear mongering should offend all coloradoens he was saying gay but what he wanted his listeners to hear was pervert pedophile unquote. joining us now from the mile high city the man who wrote that the editor of "the denver post" editorial page curtis hubbard. you got nerve calling me a homophobe. you can't back it it up. your post is liable columbus speculation, is it not. >> let me correct you on a number of things. number one it's not editorial. it's my column that appears each week sunday. it's my opinion not the opinion of the editorial board. >> bill: you are the editorial page editor, correct? >> correct. >> bill: okay. go ahead. >> and i didn't call you a home memo phone but what did i do is call into question what representative ferrandino's sexuality had to do

you said that mark ferrandino. the editorial page editor asks a question. well why did bill o'reilly even bring up the fact that ferrandino is openly gay? and you answer that in the lead-in. you said all the clips say that. everybody says that. you're hardly the first person to say that let's move beyond that i don't think you should have mentioned that he is openly gay because any liberal democrat in colorado or anywhere other state would have been angry when republicans killed the civil union bill in committee. it doesn't matter if they are gay or straight, it doesn't matter. >> bill: it does in the sense that it matters that he is openly gay because he did the same thing to jessica's law that he objected to on the civil union situation. >> what does the sexuality have anything to do with that. >> bill: here is why. that's a good question. here is why. you have to basically get behind the motivation of the man. all right? his motivation is very narrow. he has got only a couple of things he wants to do in there that he feels passionate about. but the kids,

this guy ferrandino he wouldn't even put up to the floor of the legislature to vote on it.nto a committee that he knew was going to kill it yet, the same guy that you are looking at, gay marriage, is he a big gay marriage guy. big marijuana legalizer. there he is when i worked in colorado jessica's law would have passed when i was working there. not even close. you have this influx of people from the outside who want to impose a secular paradise much like they have in boulder, colorado where the university is. that's infected the entire state. >> it has infected -- well, actually, let me narrow that down. it's infected the entire power structure. i think most of the state, if you get outside denver. the average coloradoen would say this is insane what's happening. and they would say let's vote for it. but the power structure within the front range along the denver boulder axis, that is exactly what's going on. to not even put it up for a debate. i criticize republicans last year on the civil unions bill because they wouldn't bring that for a debate. they sent it to a kill c

. >> bill: why then is the editorial director of the denver post and mark ferrandino, saying that no law enforcement supports jessica's law? >> the it's my opinion they're serving a narrow group that happens to be around a very tight denver circle and not reaching out. i spoke to two sheriffs this morning that feel it would be a good thing for colorado and bring more clarity to existing laws. so, there's three of us right now that i know would be in support of it. >> bill: well, here is four, chief macintosh who works in adams county just north of denver. do you support jessica's law, chief? >> yes, sir, i do. >> bill: are you insulted that the editorial director of the denver post, the largest newspaper in the state, says that you and the sheriff and every other law enforcement doesn't support it? that seems to me to be a pretty disturbing statement when both of you men, he could have picked up the phone easily. did you get a call, by the way, from anybody at the denver post, asking if you supported, either of you, jessica's law? >> no, i certainly didn't get a call and i don't reme