they they kill gay people there simply because they're gay there are organizations who smuggle gay people out of iran so they can live freely and so we absolutely should raise that issue. in terms of using it in other areas of policy you know if it's part of it all and i absolutely think that we should raise the issue of iran you know when it comes to being in solidarity with people across the globe i really what strikes me as surprising is this idea if you go to a country like iran that redefining marriage will be the way that you stand up for the rights of all people in iran i don't see that as that the most efficient way to go about it i would i would strongly support sort of a broad based approach like you know saying that people have there's no reason on god's green earth to attack kill harass people based on their orientation but the way to go about that is by saying those things not by redefining marriage but by also taking away rights that are granted to married couples in this country i mean doesn't that inhibit there is not discrimination against gay people i think that's nothin

check out mitt romney on gay rights. >> when you say i'm in favor of gay rights, you're not.'re in favor-- >> well, what happened--the gay community changed their perspective as to what they wanted. >>it would be terrible if america lost faith in wall street insiders wouldn't it. desk top, lab top, ipad. iphone. >> pleasant your hearts. >> the big one. >> stephanie: all i know, the little flower is there and it means go to meeting. i love go to meeting. >> cenk: we're back on "the young turks." now president obama has done many things on the issue of gay right. he has repealed don't can don't ask don't tell. hehe asked not to defend the anti-marriage act and he famously said this. >> for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> cenk: that statement has done a world of good for gay rights in north carolina, maine and other states who are moving in the right direction saying the president is right gay america should be allowed to get married. mitt romney his opponent agrees. in 1994 he said, i'm

the gay pride -- this is gay pride month in san francisco. that's a huge issue.nfortunately as you increase visibility, it brings other negatives. discrimination.ional violence, >> you see this in the commission. >> we do, absolutely. we see it every day in the commission, a discrimination in employment, education, but we ih just this week, the first ever transgender individual testifying at aenat.s. senate subcommittee hearing in washington. things like that bring people into the fold and say these are real people. >> uh-huh. >> my thinking is similar. i think that harvey milk said come out. district 8, first openly gay supervisor in san francisco. he pushed coming up out. he said come out. once people come out they have to deed deal with the issue. m its true, more and more people are coming out and saying this is who i am and they are unapologetic. if more do that, the more change we'll see. we'll see the dark underbelly. we have gay teens bullied in high school and beaten and violence against transgenders and gay men and lesbians. there's a dark underside but

no one cared that he was gay. finally, key to my own views nowhere reflected in this report, the military members of the working group who were side by side with me throughout large group sessions who told me that in the course of the ten-month review, they had started off skeptics and become satisfied that our military can do this. by the end of the ten-month study, during which i think we saw attitude ts shift as we stirred the pot on this issue, we had the overwhelming sense with proper education and leadership, the military could be ready for this change. the report was issued on november 30, 2010 in the middle of a lame duck session of congress. we pete ok, don't tell was passed by congress three weeks later. how has the military accepted this change. better than we anticipated. i attribute this to the strength of our military. i know i speak for them when i say we hope this continues in the professional and sober manner that it's taken since last year. in december 2010, as congress was considering repeal, th

check out mitt romney on gay rights. >> when you say i'm in favor of gay rights, you're not. you're in favor-- >> well, what happened--the gay community changed their perspective as to what they wanted. >>it would be terrible if america lost faith in wall street insiders wouldn't it. really? no. it comes with a hat. see, airline credit cards promise flights for 25,000 miles, but... [ man ] there's never any seats for 25,000 miles. frustrating, isn't it? but that won't happen with the capital one venture card. you can book any airline, anytime. hey, i just said that. after all, isn't traveling hard enough? ow! [ male announcer ] to get the flights you want, sign up for a venture card at capitalone.com. what's in your wallet? uh, it's ok. i've played a pilot before. >> cenk: we're back on "the young turks." now president obama has done many things on the issue of gay right. he has repealed don't can don't ask don't tell. hehe asked not to defend the anti-marriage act and he famously said this. >> for me personally, it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that i think same

be pushing their views on gay rights around the world will debate the issue ahead. it's friday june fifteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm adding martin you're watching our t.v. . finally hope for change on immigration obama gave a speech today on immigration policy stated that young undocumented immigrants will now be legalized in the united states the latest news is believed to affect eight hundred thousand undocumented immigrants living in america many of question obama's support for immigration reform considering how not much has been done since in two thousand and eight campaign rhetoric to talk more about whether or not this policy will change anything about this country or the political pandering actually means ron go chose community organizer joined us earlier today take a look. well i think in part defined his political pandering but at the same time i think it's a remarkable victory for all the young people who have been organizing so hard to make this happen you know if it wasn't for the pressure of grassroots groups that have an organization so many y

he quote the one of the resumes as gay by saying the person had been treasurer as the campus gay organization. and the other he left as just a volunteer position at some other nongay organization. he sent them both out to the employers, and the differential treatment of the gay applicants was very clear. to just give a perspective, to get an interview for a job, a gay applicant had to apply for 14 jobs, whereas the head row sexual applicant only had to apply for nine jobs to get an interview. another study sent actual applicants, one transgender and one nontransgender to apply for 24 jobs in the retail sector in new york. in half of those jobs, 12 out of 24, half of the employers, the nontransgender applicant actually got a job offer. in only two 2 of those 24 employers did the transgender applicant receive a job offer. and that's a high degree of discrimination. two decades of research suggest this kind of discrimination has important economic harms, in particular for gay and bisexual men, depending on the study, gay and bisexual men earn from 10% to 33% less than similarly qualified men, mo

romney's position on gay rights.ay's boston globe reveals while romney was governor massachusetts, is a administration blocked the publication of an anti billing report because it contained the words "bisexual" and "transgender." the article suggests this was only one of several initiatives and a distancing romney from state programs specifically geared toward the gay community. the report was eventually printed, but only once romney left office. the revelation follows on the heels of a washington post expose last month in which five former classmates revealed that romney had bullied a student who was thought to be gay. former students at michigan's cranbrook school said romney became incensed after seeing another student, john lauber, with bleached blond hair. according to their account, romney and other classmates tackled lauber to the ground and then forcefully cut office here with a pair of scissors. speaking to fox news, romney said he could not recall the 1965 incident and initially laughed when confronted with

all of the military folks, gay and straight is that being gay isn't about sex. it's about life. it's about buying a house and bickering over chores. that's my partner over there. it's about deciding whether to have kids. it's about moving to a new place and figuring everything out. it's about life. i do want to say that thanks to the leadership of the administration and the pentagon and so many unit leaders at every level, we can have those lives now and still serve the country we love. thank you so much for having me here. [ applause ] >> the first question that comes to my mind is why am i here. i enlisted in 2002 because after the events of 9/11, i could not imagine anything else i could do with my life other than to serve my country. as i was bound and focused on that idea, i thought there was no better way to do that than as a marine. the complicating fact was i had come out as gay to my parents at 18. here i was 25 years old, faced with the feelings so deep within me there was no denying it that i had to be a marine. i enlisted and listened to my recruiter stumble his way

>> he's super gay. super, super gay. >> stephen: well, i want to thank you. i want to thank you... i want to thank you so much for being here. >> i want to thank you for allowing a gay man on your show. >> stephen: you know what? it's a first. >> i don't think so! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you so much. neil patrick harris hosting the tonies this sunday on cbs. we'll be right back. guaranteed satisfaction like price matching and free torn lens replacement. you'll feel great. buy yourself a plaque with all that money you saved. guarantees... great feeling... plaque. order now at 1-800-contacts. also at walmart.

the first gay bar i went to was a place called the black cat. jose was there and it was my first experience of gay pride in a spectacular and public way that has stayed in my memory ever since. the last time i saw jose in public was at a cemetery where in the early days, about the time the hiv epidemic hit us, there was an urgent need for community, for fraternity, for working together against some historical differences of opinion among lesbians and gay men in the city. the one that was most spectacularly unifying was the widow norton's excursion every year to visit the grave of her husband. it was a moving event that also left a great impact on me. jose, you have been extraordinarily important to me personally, and i know of only one of thousands who would echo that sentiment. thank you. [applause] president chiu: thank you. and we have four other commendations today. why don't we move to a supervisor kim? supervisor kim: thank you. i actually have to commendations to begin today, so i think it will begin with the task force. if all of the mem

i don't think this is necessarily a victory for gay rights or anything like that. i don't think they are going to reverse their ban. >> that's too bad because it does -- we have long past the point where we assume that a gay man can't deal with boys. >> or in this case they had a lesbian woman -- >> who was lees bean. and the notion of incorporating that stereotype, i should say, what needs to be done, is to exor size that stereotype because that's where the boy scouts is. and by the way, this isn't serious. someone has come forward because these are the times when that is going it occur when people are going to challenge the official position of the boy scouts. but they were very quick to say, we received this petition, we are not considering changing our position on gays. >> it's a private organization. and i agree with that. the point is that a private organization has to taylor to the needs what have people want in the general community and we than youth are becoming more and more tolerant of gay rights and accepting and realizing that this is just people. as a

>> he's super gay. super, super gay. >> stephen: well, i want to thank you. i want to thank you...want to thank you so much for being here. >> i want to thank you for allowing a gay man on your show. >> stephen: you know what? it's a first. >> i don't think so! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you so much. neil patrick harris hosting the tonies this sunday on cbs. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. nation am a huge and long-time fan of sci-fi which, of course, is short for sci-fiction. (laughter) today sci-fi lost one of its greats. ray bradbury. author of such classics as "fahrenheit 451," "the martian chronicles" and "the illustrated man." his work introduced us to fantastic far off worlds and bizarre futures yet in his work nothing was stranger than what he found hidden in the human mind. so tonight i want to honor his memory in a way i'm sure he would appreciate-- by burning this copy of farren fight 451. (cheers and applause) ray, this one's for you. (laughter) whatever strange world you're in now, i hope it's an inter... as

>> he's super gay. super, super gay. >> stephen: well, i want to thank you. i want to thank you... i want to thank you so much for being here. >> i want to thank you for allowing a gay man on your show. >> stephen: you know what? it's a first. >> i don't think so! (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you so much. neil patrick harris hosting the tonies this sunday on cbs. we'll be right back.

parties should go to gay bars.you can only appreciate what you have by seeing other people who can't have it. ( laughter ) that's why i had my wedding banquet in a soup kitchen. ( laughter ) those people across the room eating the thin gruel just made my rosemary chicken that much more delicious. ( laughter ) ( applause ) next up, folks, mitt romney won the texas republican primary last night, crossing the crucial 1,144 delegate threshold. yes, what a story! he came from never being behind to clinch the republican nomination. they said it could be done. and against no odds, he achieved the possible. ( laughter ) ( applause ) and today-- it's going to be an exciting election. and today, mitt turned his attention to the general election by unveiling an innovative iphone app called "with mitt." it invites users to send photographs of themselves across the internet with one of 14 pro-mitt slogans, such as, "i'm with mitt." or "i stand with mitt." or "we're with mitt." it's the most popular political app since the relea

the first gay bar i went to was a place called the black cat. jose was there and it was my first experience of gay pride in a spectacular and public way that has stayed in my memory ever since. the last time i

he was a gay journalist.e was happy in his gay lifestyle, and that his purpose was to expose me and people like me. >> reporter: strudwig heads a group called the "stop conversion therapy taskforce," which opposes psychological conversion therapy to help gays become straight. and he wrote about his experience with leslie. he told pink news, "we want to root out therapists and psychiatrists who are practicing these techniques, and hopefully bring an end to them by exposing them." the christian legal center, which represented pillkinton, said it will calls therapist to stop practicing conversion therapy. >> if you believe a homosexual can change their behavior, you will lose your job. >> reporter: the gay agenda is one of the most potent political movements in the united kingdom. even though according to a poll, there are not many homosexuals in britain. only 1.5% of the population. that's 750,000 hom sexual ,000 homosexuals in a nation of 60 million people. >> they call it human rights, and they're using terms

if he goes out and locks somebody up for being gay it is like, he is gay. there is not a lot of statute outs and i think he would be fired after that. >> it is like if you are a referee and do you think the miami heat sucks and they always lose and they do illegal things all the time? yes, i do think that. you would not get the referee job. >> that's a pretty fair comparison. >> i am impressed that anna came up with a sports metaphor. >> was it more like a simalie? i i was making fun of you and i am the fool. >> i have a question for you from a "red eye" fan. >> jesse, i think it is great you have a pierced earring. now teenage girls will noah head of time -- know ahead of time if you will hit on them. >> that's true. that's why i do it. >> are you going to keep that? >> watch out, teenagers. >> are you going to keep that? >> the earring? yes. i had it since i was in seventh grade. >> i thought he said you had power steering. jay no, an earing. it is the robot voice. >> all right, from the police to the polite. do we now expect a lack of respect? according

no one cared that he was gay." finally, key to my own views know where reflected in this report, the military members of the working group were side-by- side with me throughout the presence of large groups sessions who told me that in the course of the 10 month review, they started off skeptics and had become satisfied that our military can do this. by the end of the 10 months study during which i think we actually saw added -- attitudes shift as we stirred the pot, we have the overwhelming sense that with proper education and leadership, the military could be ready for this change. the report was issued publicly on november 30, 2010, in the middle of a lame duck session of congress. repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" was passed by congress three weeks later, signed into law by the president on december 22, 2010, and took effect on september 20, 2011. how has the military accepted this change? better than we anticipated. i attribute this to the strength of our military and its army, navy, air force, marine and coast

and an openly gay man. mr. russen's -- rustin's letters cover over 40 years of his life, and the correspondents include eleanor holmes norton and martin luther king jr. this is about an hour, 20 minutes. >> thank you for coming. i, as a lifetime human rights activist, i'm especially excited to be talking about bayard rustin because, um, as you can see in his collective letters and as i'd like to ask michael to talk about, he was really the, the in some ways sole vote in the civil rights movement who really saw a complete set of linkages between all forms of injustice. and, you know, there's a very sad story of the split between civil rights and human rights in the united states that, actually, the schomburg center's going to be looking at on march 30th which is certainly the subject of a whole other discussion. but it's one of the things that's very inspiring in his story is that he saw so clearly that indignity and injustice against african-americans was connected to the discrimination and the struggles, the d

we have been gay community center where we made the first rainbow flag, and the gay ban, and gay koretz, -- chorus, it was a magnificent expression of cultural power. and harvey milk was alive. jimmy carter was in the white house saying human rights are absolute and changing our policies in a war in south america. it was a thrilling time. go all the right messages were happening from all the right people. everything was going great, and we all laugh saying, and reagan will never be president. our work is not done, and it is going to be harder than ever. 1978 was pivotal. willie brown in 1974 was the first person to change the law so we could become citizens and not criminals. all of that will go away if we do not stand and fight for the liberty, liberation, and freedom and we have. our enemies will fight just to the death, so our work is not done. it is like a rainbow. you cannot see the beginning. you cannot see the end. >> happy pride. then it is a real pleasure and an honor of being here. gwe will be targeting many communications. the messages peace and safety for everyone. happy pri

community they are gay enough.you said it best they have to convince the undecided voters that this is something that doesn't matter. i only came out a couple of years ago, jo because for me -- i just -- didn't want to be defined that way i guess, or i was a private person. whatever your reasons are at the time, and i think as we move forward, we all feel the need at different times to just speak our truth, right? >> right. exactly. so i applaud the politicians that worked with me on this series, but at the same time i understand the politicians that say, yes, i am an out candidate, but i don't necessarily need to wear that on my sleeve in this race. >> you said hopefully we're moving in the direction where gay will not be another anymore. >> exactly. and it's a big contrast too. i interviewed mark tacono who is running for congress out in california, and he ran 20 years ago, and that race was just ugly. a complete smear campaign against him for being a homosexual. and now he has the complete opposite experience. s

locally the state of maryland has passed legislation allowing for gay couples to wednesday. it's said to go into effect next year unless a referendum vote from the public strikes it down. >> it's wonderful to see the tide changing in favor of gay rights and to recognize the fact that -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: for many this weekend's events are not just an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments made by gay activists but also a chance to recharge their efforts for the battle they will undoubtedly continue to fight. >> we have a long way. there's always a lot of progress that can be made. >> reporter: i'mi'm ken molestino, 9news now. >>> scout leaders suffered these exhaustion yesterday. 250,000 scouts and family members were there. 07 were treated for -- 70 were treated for heat-related problems. crews sprayed the crowd down with fire trucks to cool things off. >> we didn't get to be sprayed a lot but we actually got to kick the ball and it was really fun. >> we've been drinking plenty and staying in the shade. >> we're going underneath the firehouses. >> everyone wh

i want you to know that i am gay. was a very long pause and me crying and all of a sudden, my grandfather, who is, by all means, the typical person that would not accept someone who is gay, he broke the silence and said, stacy, we love you. >> my whole world suddenly opened up. >> telling that first person was a big deal. after the first few people, i just started acting like it was everybody should know this. >> this is who i am. >> i will never forget this. i opened the door, my dad is out there. he looks at me and says, i am so sorry if i ever said fag. >> my life now is great. >> i would have missed the first time being held by someone i love. loving, i would have missed experiencing the joy and jubilation of life. people who show me amazing new things all the time, new ways to think and look at the world. i never foresaw being a police officer. i thought it was something that i could not do. >> things keep getting better for me. >> it does get better. >> i will help you and i will protect you and i will listen. >

the preperations for a gay pride day.a deeth defying stuut.how across one of americas iconic landmarks. and thh search for the next american idol is already underway. who will be the new judges.and will -lo return for another season? itts a remarkable siin of a cultural change in the u-s military. the gay and lesbian milittry members...and as jennifer griffin reports it comes as the pentagon prepares to mark june as gay pride month with an official sslute. salute. =panetta: "diversity is one of our greatest trrngths" defense secretary leon panetta -- thanking gay and lesbian military members for their a video essage... ssthe pentagon joins thh rest of the u-s government... forr he áfirstá time ...recogniziig june as gay pride month. panetta: "you faithfully served your country with professionnlism and courage. &pand just ike your fellow service members, you put your pountry before yourself.""this comes nine months after thh "doo'' askk don't tell" policy - took effect. under don't ask, don't tell"... gay and lesbian troop

>> going back to the gay marriage issue. the thing about mitt romney is that--i think he does personally oppose gay marriage. but at the end of the day every day we're talking about the social issues, be it immigration or same sex issues, it's a day that mitt romney is losing. he knows his attack line is the economy and that's all he wants to talk about. >> it's also a fundamental tension within the republican party where they say let people do what they want with their own lives, versus those who want to crawl in other bedrooms and tell us what to do. it also reflects that jeb bush understand as the bush family has understood, the republican party as a group has wandered so far to the right they're not going to find that central core and get elected if they don't on back to the middle. david catanese political reporter at politico. and mcday coppins political reporter for buzzfeed. thank you for your time tonight. >> snookie and crystal palin went on "good morning america" on the same day. the end of television. viewfinder

i'm a gay boy gangster. you have to be able to fight to get in the gay boy gangsters.ost gay boy gangsters are previous gang members that dropped out or kicked out because of their sexual orientation. on the mainline i ran as a skin head. i just tried to be that guy, the tough guy. someone needed to get beat up i raised my hand. anybody that tries to forcefully take property, rape or in any way hurt a homosexual that can't defend themselves, that's where we step in. we come in and tell them, check this out. this in your one and only warning. leave our people alone. do not put hands on our people. do not try to hurt them. you will -- you will get hurt. and if they don't stop, we just take off on them. we beat them up. i just came out of the shu for possession of a weapon. i was trying to go out to the yard to stab some guy that beat up a homosexual that couldn't defend himself. me and the guy had gotten into a fight previously, because he beat up a gay boy, and the dude told me he was going to stab me. i told him to get his knife. i went in and got my knife. well, i gue

appointees ruled that by defining a marriage between a man and a woman the law discriminates against gay and lesbian couples since that law was passed in one thousand nine hundred six this is the first time a federal appeals court has ruled against it and it might have something to do with a decision made last year by president obama when he instructed his justice department to no longer defend doma in court that prompted speaker of the house john boehner and his republican buddies to hire their own high priced lawyer to defend a discriminatory law and a force you and me the taxpayers to pay boners legal fees. ultimately the supreme court will likely have the final say in this matter just as they had the final say in approving interracial marriage and decriminalizing homosexuality so stay tuned in the meantime though we still have to deal with the crazies out there who think that we're living in the bronze age for example kansas pastor curtis knapp of the the hope baptist church he says that gays should be put to death because that's what the bible says so we're going to organize society

new york's city's annual gay parade was also held yesterday. they held the same sex marriage law and it also helped with the u.s. military and now they can openly declare their sexuality. >>> and gay pride events went around all over the world just go to our website www.ktvu.com and click on the gay pride tab. >>> santa clara leaders pulled $30 million in tax funds. they say they would rather spend the money on teachers but it is specifically earmarked to rebuild the stadium. the 49ers have not commented on whether it will affect the stadium and pulling of it which is already underway. >>> and only on 2, an attack during a football game put him in a coma, how he is learning to walk and talk about one year later. >>> good morning 280 traffic is looking good, another update on the traffic is straight ahead. . >>> the art exhibit is finally open in los angeles, the 340- ton bolder is at the museum of art. it happened four decades ago but it took $10 million to make it a reality. the rock came from a quarry and it took 11 nights to transport it to

this is because you hate gay people. that's not logical. let me ask you a question about the bible. oh, my god marriage is between a man and a woman. how many wives did solomon have? >> i think he had 700. >> cenk: and how many concubine. >> 500. >> cenk: 300, that's right. in a bible a man always has 700 wives and 500 hookers. >> this is straw man when you're raising arguments that i didn't make and then you knock them down because you think it supports your argument. i have not made any of those arguments. >> cenk: you with not main no local case why a gay couple should have the same exact rights. >> they do. >> cenk: and you know it's because of your bigotry related to what you think your religion is when in fact, it has not been that way for centuries. it has not been that way for millennium. it's not way in the bible. it never has been. but you want to focus everybody's hatred on guy people to take away their rights. >> i'm not sure why you needed me on this program. you are making my arguments for me. >> cenk: mission accomplished. th

gay rights activists say the law lacks clarity and allows too much room for interpretation by police which could see crackdowns any time a gay community wants to highlight the prejudice they face the law also puts his propaganda of homosexuality on a par with paedophilia which gay groups here will spread both ignorance and aggressive homophobia there are more about it with. enough it aims to exclude members of l.g.b. two groups from any public activities and deprive us of the chance to let the society know our needs and problems and equating us to the peril files is just meant to defame us and we on in might in the me have been together for over two years but believe they had a family many would enemy their biggest frustration used to be that they couldn't get married but if the new law reaches moscow they see life getting much worse. socially or it's an atrocious law that would be telling us we are worse than other people. i think our society death or it is good society is more tolerant and that's happened thanks to the fact that we used to come out and show that we exist that we ar

no one cared that he was gay, end quote.y -- [applause] finally, key to my own views, nowhere reflected in this report, the military members of the working group who worked side-by-side with me throughout dozens of large group sessions told me that in the course of the 10 month review they had started off skeptics, and have become satisfied that our military can do this. by the end of a 10 month study, during which i think we actually saw attitudes shift as we stirred the pot on this issue, we had the overwhelming sense that with proper education and leadership, the military could be ready for this change. the report was issued publicly on november 30, 2010, in the middle of a lame-duck session of congress. repeal of "don't ask, don't tell" was passed by the congress three weeks later, signed into law by the president on december 22, 2010, and took effect on september 20, 2011. how has the military accepted this change? better than we anticipated your eye a tribute visit to the strength of our military, and its army, navy, a

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>> my guess is behind closed doors, he would tell you he has had gay friends, gay co-workers.ated them with the utmost respect. but the fact that he, in order to receive the nomination from the republican party feels that he needs to stray so far from this what is very common sense for most americans, i think, speaks more to the party than it does maybe to mitt romney. >> based upon the sequenceing, we will look forward to it. your story was fascinating. what was it like to come out as gay in college when you were captain of the football team and an all-american? >> you know, i had just wrapped up a national championship at the time that i came out. and, you know, the truth is, it was great. you had said during one of the promos about how unique the situation was. and, you know, i want to be clear. it happened 10 years ago. and i didn't play for a big 10 school. i iplayed for what my coaches would say was a hard-nosed pennsylvania team with guys from new york and new jersey and pennsylvania, a very working-class football team and you know what? they were great. they had spent

we opened this door to say it's okay to know gay people and have gay friends. it was crazy.y, very supportive. >> john: you know, i got to say in all the military shows that i do as a comedian overseas the troops i met had zero hang ups on deserving beside gay and lesbian troops. do you think this is more about civilian politicians just trying to pander for votes from bigoted americans? >> i couldn't even tell you what it's really about. i just know that younger generations--it's not anish issue. the military generally mostly are in their 20s. i just don't think that they really care. they shouldn't. sex is not an issue in the military. it doesn't have anything to do with what we do. so it shouldn't be an issue. that's the way that they feel as well. >> john: right on. quick before we go. how did you feel about the president coming out in favor of marriage equality in america? >> you know, when i was deployed under president obama, it was historic for me. he was the first african-american president. i was so excited to be deployed under him. and when he stood up for me, it w

some say oh, you're gay? i don't care. some say i didn't know i loved a gay person?>> john: exactly. >> and some say i'll never buy your records again. you disgust me. it's been interesting. >> john: when i think of my favorite country artist, people like hank williams or johnny cash, these are people who sank from a place of pain, loneliness in a gave them their unique voice. has this whole saga impacted you creatively? >> i think living in the closet impacted me creatively. we'll see how this effects my songwriting as it is now. but i think i had--i was a raw nerve until i was 39 years old. that's got to, you know, really form someone's creative process. i'm a scorpio i'm a woman, and i'm emotional. i think i was always a very emotional songwriter, but i think being able to retire from the full-time job of hiding and believe me it was labor intensive. it has freed up some of my creative head space and that's what it's all about. >> john: my favorite thing about your story is that you held on your christianity. i'm someone who in my stand up who talks about that you