Melissa co-hosted "Politics Nation with Al Sharpton" yesterday, concluding the show with her take on President Obama's historic new stance on marriage equality. She led off by noting the importance of today, May 10, for an important reason. May 10 was the day that, in 1886, saw the House of Representatives pass the 14th Amendment, which reversed the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision, thereby granting citizenship to slaves and others born inside the country's borders.
(Interestingly, May 10 is also the birthday of corporate personhood. The Supreme Court issued a ruling on that same exact day in 1886 in the case of Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, granting the same constitutional protections to corporations as citizens under that newly-passed, not-yet-ratified 14th Amendment.)
I'll let Melissa take it from here. Video of her interview with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) from earlier in last night's show is embedded after the jump.
Guest host Melissa Harris-Perry praises President Obama for taking a stand on civil rights.
Melissa Harris-Perry sits in for Politics Nation host Rev. Al Sharpton and is joined by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. The pair discuss the country's and the Democratic party's evolution on gay rights, and the GOP's "devolving" attitude.
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Hello everyone,
I am a Christian and I do believe homosexuality is a sin and a stronghold just as any other. I also believe just I will have to give an account for what I have done in life, so will everyone including the homosexual. So whether or not homosexuals get married, really doesn't matter to me as it is just as wrong then fornication and shacking up.
However, what I do have a problem with is the homosexual way of life being forced on me and others who have no one to shield them. I could care less who someone sleeps with but I do care if I am told children from families that cannot afford to go to private schools must be subjected to teaching that explains homosexual sex and the life styles. I also have a problem with people wanting to gallivant down the street groping and feeling on each other displaying perverted behaviors and being told my tax dollars will pay for that and it is a freedom of expression. These are the things I have a problem with.
The fact is, morality cannot be legislated. However, we must have a civil society in which licentious behavior is not championed and paid for by tax dollars. If children cannot be taught creationism, how and why are they being subjected to homosexuality? If we teach one, we must also teach the other. So the "authority" figure in the eyes of the child on education presents them with both sides of the story so they can in fact choose what to believe.
So Mitt has some gay bashing in his past? Let's put things in their proper context:
I've gotta feeling 2012 is gonna be a weird year....