host: your calls for kevin jennings are welcomed. the republican line, 202-748-8001. 202-748-8000 for democrats. independents and others, 202-748-8002. and the lbgtq+ community can call on 202-748-8003. kevin jennings, did your group, lambda legal have a role in florida in the parents' right bill? the so-called don't say gay bill. do you have a role on that? guest: yes, we filed a legal challenge to the law and we plan to take it down in court. i started my career as a high school teacher for 10 years. and whose parental rights are we defend something it is not the rights of lbgtq+ parents who are now being told whose children are now being told they can't even talk about who their family is in class. it is not the rights of parent who is have lbgtq+ children who are seeing their own children being silenced and discriminated against. so if we're going to talk about parental right, let's talk about all parents. lbgtq+ parents, there are parents who have lbgtq+ children. there are parent who is have lbgtq+ siblings. and i don't think a

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be going back to the bad old days when we were de facto criminals in our own country. >> host: kevin jennings, our guest. we welcome your calls and comments. we'll go first to jack from georgia on the independents line. good morning. >> caller: yes, sir, good morning. i would like to ask mr. jennings, i mean, i'm originally from savannah, georgia. i'm not gay, but i know very fine gay couples that are very highly educated people and very productive people. and since he was talking about this abortion issue, the right to life, what about the gay couples who want to adopt children? and -- a heard anything since heavy gotten into the abortion issue, how do they stand on even heterosexual and gay couples who might want to raise children instead of a person going and having an abortion, have they ever thought about maybe, you know, have -- carrying out the pregnancy and then putting the child up for adoption where gay couples and met to prosexual couples -- and heterosexual couples want a family unit -- [inaudible] >> host: okay. kevin jennings. >> guest: first of all, jack, thank you for your que

kevin jennings, your thoughts. guest: limited the first callers comments first. what has caused the pain and confusion. pres. biden: my fellow americans, on saturday at my direction, the united states successfully concluded an airstrike in afghanistan that killed ayman al-zawahri. al-zawahri was bin laden's leader. he was with him the whole time. he was as number two man, the deputy at the time the terrorist attack 9/11. he was deeply involved in the planning of 9/11. one of the most responsible for the attacks and murdered 2977 people on american soil. he was the mastermind on attacks against americans including the bombing of the uss cole which killed 17 american sailors and wounded dozens more. he played a key role in the bombing of u.s. embassies in kenya and tanzania, killing 224 and wounding over 4500 others. he carved a trail of murder and violence against american citizens. american service members. american diplomats. and american interests. since the united states deliver justice to bin laden 11 years ago, al-zawahri has been at the leader of al qaeda.