. >> go, had you wrong with kyra johnson. >> thank you for being on today, kierra. i've had this issue of marriage equality come up in my family. and in respect to my father, i asked him about what he thought about this issue. he knows that i'm in a person, i've been getting the same man for 20 years and he quoted to me passage in the bible from matthew 19. it says there are someone that shouldn't marry. and i, said dad, i know how saint matthew feels. but i want to know what you think. how do you feel about me and my boyfriend getting married? >> and rick, what did he say? >> he did not say anything. he just sat there stone cold. tightlipped. and had no interest. and i also asked him, i said, if i was to marry, him how would that take anything away from the three marriages that were passed in your lifetime, and he 73 i am 63. like i said my boarding arriving together for 31 years. and you know it just really hurts when your family says they love you and they respect you for being out and open. but when it comes to marriage equality it gets real personal for me. and

also with us, kyra johnson, executive director of the national lgb kelly, i just want to gi this is devastating. safety in the united states is an illusion. in the last, week we have seen three mass shootings take place. we are not seeing them in grocery stores, we're not seeing them on field trips, we're not safe in nightclubs and other places that we go to celebrate who we are. this is a moment of crisis, especially for the lgbtq+ community, especially for black and brown, and people of color in this country. the thing that is important to know, is that this is not happening by accident. we see a direct line from violent lgbt -- lgbtq plus rhetoric online, from anti lgbtq attacks led by political leaders. and the deadly events that transpired this week. my message is, look, for every politician attacking your community, we see who you are. we are demanding better. >> how can we combat that kind of rhetoric? >> we have to be diligent, and we have to call it out for what it is. kelly was just saying it. you don't get to cede violence and hate, and language, and law, and policy, and cultural nor