home i'm an north and alabama gets blue and we get less so mostly well with some caviar ads we'll discuss all the details of the alabama senate election to try to figure out where we actually stand meanwhile a bunch of fred roll judges have ruled that transgender people can enlist in the military on january st but our president has not given up trying to stop them president trump wants the know if the christians appreciate what he is doing for them that why he brought them to the white house well to our astonishment trump has renominated highfill blow out lesbian for one of the democratic seats on the sea the united states supreme court is not ready to rule on whether discrimination based on sexual orientation is sex discrimination the case has a few radials and we believe that the new president of the california senate next year will be out lesbian tony acton's a philadelphia gay man has won a discrimination case eight years later australia's parliament has voted overwhelmingly to open marriage to same sex couples will show you the joy they're going to say but bermuda is moving towards stopping gay marriages that were ordered by their high court and were underway yeah we'll give you the l g b t angles on the golden globe nomination and i'm going to review  parisian woman on broadway and the very gay sponge bob square pants the broadway musical but we start with the broadway musical taking place in alabama well the rules have been rewritten you may remember governor edward edwards of louisiana was very famous for saying i'm going to get elected unless i get caught with a dead girl or a live boy well those rules have been changed because moore of course showed that you can get you can lose if you got caught with live girls well i think there were a lot of reasons the ride more got defeated certainly the those charges were part of it but you know he was notoriously wacky have been thrown off the alabama supreme court twice forced to resign he's a traitor to the constitution he believes in fact that most amendments to secede again and he believes things were fine in the old days even though we had slavery and he evidently cannot ride a horse and his wife in her defense of their non anti semitism on anti semitism classic double bigoted so a lot of those things help defeat him and i think certainly city in republican senator richard shelby coming out several days before the election to say he could not vote for roy moore was a big big feature but i have to say the moment that really told me that we might win this was when somebody said and i don't even remember whether it was a reporter or a politician or whatever but someone looked right in the camera and said this is election an election about whether al bama is going to proceed into the future or stay in the so you know they were never part of the new south we're now we have a chance to maybe you know it's still going to be it's always going to be tough for a relatively progressive candidate which doug jones was i remember seeing doug jones on c when he was just getting started rachel interviewed him and i thought oh he seems like a nice man but i was also kind of impressed with him i said he's not he's not apologizing for his positions he's a smart guy very capable federal prosecutor he's not you know he didn't back off is that reproductive rights stand our own senator chuck schumer goes on t v and you know he's very very political and careful and cagey and everything doug jones was just bluntly answering these questions in an effective wa thought you know and i was a political consultant i thought this this guy's a good candidate yeah you know and well he's a solid local guy in alabama and he did prosecute twenty five years after it happened  they the people who bombed the birmingham church and killed the little girls right and and you know he and he was a protege of a former senator howell half len and he said he's well known and he just had a lot of appeal but i think this this business of the future versus the past is important and what got him elected in a high turnout election yes young people women yes but people not white women and and certainly not white men now and overwhelmingly obviously more of the men the but the african american turnout was the absolute key to this we had to read these stories in the mainstream press including the new york times oh there's a lot of black apathy there not with the not the not that they don't care they're not they're not revved up they're not excited that of the quo they were thirty percent of the electorate more are then then turned out for b all right but i mean that's up or about his significant you know what but here's the thing you know people say oh people keep people keep staying home they don't they don't come out when there is a contest and they know that they can make a difference they turned out and that's what they did  well particularly this year and that's what we've seen now in new jersey and virginia and here and in a few select races around the country that you know it's a very hopeful sign that people are energized people are excited to make a difference people are smart enough that they know a lot of people didn't vote in new york's municipal elections this year why because there was everybody of all there was nothing to vote for all the candidates were pre determined that when they were go no there was no real opposition now one no races this was a race this was a contest and the ninety eight percent of african american women women voted for doug jones  or ninety six dollars well cos if they care about and the only thing more had going for him was i'm going to put a stop to abortion and gay rights and if you really cared about that when the human rights campaign was on the ground had a significant number of people on the ground for quite a while this really was a coalition of people who got him elected and one of the most impactful things that happened again in the last couple of days before the election was the local farmer who was interviewed on t v and talked about how angry he was at roy moore for as he said calling my daughter a pre birth yes we have a picture of him this is this the video on him has gone viral and it was from m b and b c so we don't have the rights to show it but we will send a link out with our e mail this week if you're if you get on our e mail list go to our website it gave us a t v sign up for e mails if you don't link to this if you haven't seen it but you can just google it and find this guy i was so moved to hear you say that he's a guy who stepped forward to talk about his daughter who committed suicide because she was so harassed as a lesbian and how he clued in by him yes i i had anti gay attitudes yeah i did and she was only like twenty six years old when she killed herself and he didn't just come out about it he stood at a wrong more rally and said this has got to stop he calls these people preferred he says you know i mean he doesn't he doesn't he didn't know my daughter my daughter was not a pretty right he says right and neither are gay people right and we've got to put a stop to this but it was things like you know that guy his name by the way was make them mathis navas yes you can look him up you can look him up is the farmer dad of lesbian in alabama and he said the people of alabama are a good people well clearly there is a mix and i think i give a lot of credit to the young people who came out in droves to vote for doug jones they made a big difference but it was the coalition of everybody who got together which was needed because let's not forget that roy moore came very very close to winning this election this and and there's no reason to believe that if the republicans had put up a less extreme candidate that they would know and i'm sure did out i mean they're they're not idiots and they know if they do want to stop abortion and gay rights they are going to have to vote for republicans in those seats which is a very very sad thing and the question is well go ahead you know well i was just going to say that i'm i agree with you about doug jones i think he's a good guy with good principles a good progressive and i'm a little concerned when i hear people discuss him as a rational centrist and someone who will vote with the republicans and d you know mitch mcconnell on election night is saying we welcome doug jones who were sure will vote not gone over to the dark side with trump much as he might want to they he has held with the democratic caucus and doug jones needs to do that too now as we're sitting down here today we're reading that the republican tax scam bill certified by the state of alabama which is not going to be any in any hurry with its republican administration played this summer twenty six dollars is the certification time now you know if it's within if it ends up being within a half of a percent which is highly unlikely yeah i mean how many military votes are there when those military votes but they actually look at the write in votes and they were told there were twenty two thousand dollars write in votes they look at them and if the person who wrote in was not eligible to be a senator they discount the vote so it doesn't become part of that percentage you say it's i think that's a good thing well no that's not good for a minute could make them that the margin hours what i'm saying if they throw out those votes he still wins i'd have to do the math on that but i'm not sure that's right but i i wonder as they say that they're going to count military votes that haven't been counted yet i wonder how many of those there are but so you know i was kind of sitting there watching and hoping at least that this would this would give a a message to republicans you're not going to win with this kind of an agenda but they seem to want to as you've said grab all the money that they can for themselves satisfy their donors split and get out of there so i don't think bannon who should be cowering in a corner at this point is in fact feeling discouraged i'm sure he's found other people to blame  voiding the cameras last night he just walked right past them he's just working up his defense and putting together his team for trotting out more extreme candidates you know drain the swamp candidates for next year but i read a very long article by frank rich of new york magazine about the history of this constituency the roy moore constituency which was the george wallace constituency which were the people who supported father coughlin back in the thirty's anti semitism race aggregation and it is a big i mean we dodged a bullet when george wallace took a bullet because he was a formidable force in american politics at that time and that has not gone away and it is the trump coalition and it is not going away any time soon now but here is a very encouraging statistic of the people who voted trump's approval rating among them he had a forty seven percent approval rating among the people who voted and forty eight percent disapproving of him that's very encouraging in alabama because he won the state by twenty eight points well i did get a n e mail from a friend who said it's a hanukkah miracle expanding the love in to eight days so i think that it is shocking when you think about it that we were able to win a senate seat in alabama but it doesn't mean we should be complacent it doesn't mean we have a lot of don't have a lot of work to do and it doesn't mean that we're going to hold that seat in three years when it comes around again  shelby the other senator down there said when he was saying he would not vote for roy moore it's not eight hundred and sixty he said it's not a lot of other things it's two thousand and seventeen well on the other hand regular five years to go in his term so he's not up for a while richard shelby switched from being a democrat a republican let's not take that as a blueprint for doug jones well you know all right other news what i mean by the way the registration of the state registration in the state is fairly close it's like thirty seven percent democrat forty three percent republican it's not like a huge to those the independents i understand but this is the st statewide race we've won in how many years how many decades decades all right let's go back to washington d c ok is the military trans people in the military so we got two more court decisions this week that said the trump administration cannot delay any longer they must add here to the plan for january st as the time that new trans troops can apply to the military and the pentagon immediately said we will comply with the court order all right that's but the trumpet ministration is appealing this while they say we're not ready the former army secretary out gay eric fanning says nonsense of course you're ready for military officials said of course we're ready they they were ready six months ago at the original deadline maddest got it extended six months but now he and everybody says oh we're ready we're ready we're ready the trump people are saying there will be irreparable injury if we don't stop this and the court said you're basing this on vague claims which are specious  so they're the rule is that anyone who applies as a new member of the military who is trans has to be able to prove that they are physically and psychologically stable in their current gender identity for eighteen months if you've had surgery it has to be more than eighteen months later we are on yeah and there's some discussion about this is longer than necessar really you could do it at six months but everybody seems willing to accept this as a standard even though they think it's a little conservative moshe would talk about the other what else happened at the supreme court they deny it review a security guard at georgia regional hospital and she had been fired the rest assaulted and denied equal pay and one of the you know on the grounds that she was a lesbian on the grounds that she was dressed seen in appropriately as a woman for the job and that part of the cases going forward well he she applied she sued on the grounds of being fired because of her sexual orientation and class find that as sex discrimination the th circuit court of appeals said no you don't have a right to sue for sex or sexual orientation discrimination is sex discrimination you could reapply as being discriminated against on the basis of your gender expression because that is actually something more logical to sue under and she refused to do that  lost at the th circuit on the sexual orientation discrimination appealed to the supreme court supreme court has refused to take the case but everyone says she should go back to the th circuit and apply for gender expression as sex discrimination and it's lambda legal case they're pretty outraged pretty upset but the supreme court doesn't take a lot of cases and doesn't like cases that are on resolved before they get to them well but there is a split in the circuits and yet because the th circuit has ruled that sexual orientation discrimination is sex discrimination and we have a nd circuit case where we are here in new york or in this area that is taking up this issue but well presumably and i don't like to give the benefit of the doubt to the current supreme court but presumably they feel that this is in these cases have not ripe and how to get there mika professor author leonard says you have an excellent case on sexual stereotypes sex stereotyping so which is the gender expression version so go back and do that and the sexual orientation sex discrimination cases will take care of the christians know all the things i'm doing for them we're right the christians now if you had any i mean why why they don't just get up and peek of course they're getting what they want and say go down say that parent that ecl a that's the whole point yes is that you know he is he is the least bit christian but the christians are other people who he's doing things for he's not a christian you know this is all transactional this is all about you know everyone who is in bed with him literally or d figuratively is there to get what they want and this is this is the bargain they've made this is the deal with the devil well exactly and that's what i doubt and don't they know that in the long run they're just going to drive more and more people especially young people away from their churches or what do you think they're going to do get support us well i mean everybody everybody starts make a deal when they start seeing the way the wind blows and they want to hold on to power right now they're holding on to power because they think their core group supports them but eventually they may sense the change in attitudes even among evangelicals which is changing i mean the attitudes are changing among young people that look at that i believe it was an alabama university which forwent money from the southern baptist convention because they said they wanted to have a group where people could meet and discuss issues not even a gay group well i think that there is certainly a hard core that is not going to change that is going to stick to their principles principles  of appeals for a life now senator susan collins was on this week on believe it was face the nation and you know she said she was upset that the the republican national committee was now backing roy moore and she said it not just because he was a molester she said but he's because of the anti muslim anti l g b t statements but she is one of these republican senators voting for these bigots to these lifetime federal appointments  ask her about that well that too stupid on face the nation i mean what is to call a face the men meet the man these men it's so she's just she's just not doing it now but grassley who was the head of the judicia give us benefits when we get married those kinds of things and james ho from the th circuit who's from the st liberty institute actually jeff let's hear he also wants withdraw don't anti gay torture fan and he's anti gay and then in the midst of all this what should happen but the white house should announce more nominations among which is high feldblum renominated to her seat on the equal employment opportunity commission big out lesbian now they do have to appoint a democrat they have to appoint you it's five what is it five people on the e e o c no more than three can be from the same party so it's going to be three republicans under the and they're going to be able to do whatever they want and the people he's already appointed are terrible so yes and they're in control and they're already doing bad things and there was some speculation the high feldblum would not want to stay in the state she's the one who invented the concept of sex discrimination rules being applied for sexual orientation or gender identity she is a brilliant wonderful lawyer and she's done stick stuff on the sea and it is house has to appoint democrats or non republicans that you then let the democrats decide who will be the appointees in their name that used to be the way u s attorneys were done basically and trump doesn't seem to be complying with that at this point yeah that's a little different but we'll see whether her nomination actually gets through will fall that and meanwhile the the new proposed higher education act from the trumpet ministration rolls back more and more protections for students nondiscrimination protections benefits whatever gone i saw i saw jeff sessions getting questioned by inters you watch any of this that was tried to do that was a big long terms were burnt raising issues about people of color and about gay people and you know sessions would just get all huffy and say we are going to enforce  law we are we are not going to let anybody be discriminated against by instead he was asked specifically about why he withdrew the obama guidelines about how to treat trance juden sin schools and his answer was i have pushed for investigation of the murders of trans women i don't think they're answering the questions that oh and i sound like i'm doing a kate mccann an imitation more than others who are calling all this a big which a big sex panic etc but al franken would not be resigning from the senate if he didn't know that he had done things that were not appropriate otherwise i  believe he would be defending himself i think we have certainly heard from a number of people who are outraged that they think al rankin is being forced out in which undersexed panic or whatever but  a we don't know enough about what al franken did or didn't do and maybe there should be some kind of ethics investigation evidently something is going for him but we don't really know i think there should be if there's a dispute and the other thing is when dozens of your colleagues your democratic colleagues come forward to ask you to leave i have to believe they know him better than we do and i know from sinai live and i don't like but i didn't know him personally i did i worked the show you know as a page at n b c and i interacted with them so i did and i thought he was a noxious but then i was sort of surprised as a senator because he was a great advocate of gay rights women's rights all those things yes and he certainly was but i certainly think that to rise up in student high dudgeon at him being asked to resign is not appropriate i mean clearly he did some things that were not good and we don't know what kind of guy he really was so that all that now i now i'm hearing for the st time that maybe you did but i didn't witness i just i'm talking about you know being on the set and witnessing the kind of humor that he did and pushed for and all those you know well people have said to me well what do you think of  before her latest thing with trump but just in reference to her leading the charge to get franken to resign i said look i am sure she knows a lot better than i do and i do trust her to her and her colleagues there are a lot of them who asked him to resign and if he's so wonderful he can run next year that's when his seat comes up again right so no i don't feel bad about him and the and by the way the no one including us is irreplaceable right and if you'd like to replace us contact us we're looking for some of those young people from alabama really look reinforcements yeah are the temple by the way the congressional staff association demanded much better reporting systems in congress and that included the old g b t groups here well because they have this whole convoluted system that really works to prevent any kind of hard as we did maybe but yeah we didn't even know about all these cases every state legislature has done this to they cover them up they pay people off and it goes with our money you know with our money yeah right well hopefully  things will be better in the legislature in california when tony atkins out lesbian senator takes over as she is expected to do as president and they call it president pro tem of the senate the majority hatch right now well the senate is led by the majority leader so the the position that tony atkinson is going to have is this of at least the majority leader yes but has the title of president pro te now she was the speaker of the assembly when she was in the assembly they have term limits in california so a lot of them start out in one house and then end up in the other musical to yes they may have a new york to yap but when she was in the assembly she was elected to be the speaker of the assembly and now she's been picked to be the head of the senate said to read the how did we show that picture of her with her wife nice picture of her yeah there she is on the right that's her wife on the left that was at a previous ceremony of some sort and tony atkins on the right there will be the new president of the senate but sad news from our gayest city next to palm springs san francisco where the mayor ed lee collapsed and died while he was out shopping the st asian american in that post a former housing advocate a civil rights lawyer civil rights attorney you know a lot of people would see him by san francisco standards as being rather centrist but certainly not a radical but certainly on our side he's being succeeded by a woman named london breed she's forty three years old she's african american and apparently had a reputation as being quite the hot head back in the day which is encouraging we were encouraged by that she's moderated herself and she's advanced in politics she is the new mayor perhaps like the previous african american american mayor willie brown a little maverick in kentucky david earl mold is going to run against kim davis for the clerk position he was one of those denied a marriage license by her thinking that somebody should run against her and if nobody else is going to do it i'm going to do it and it's a well paid job he's a local a really good professor shank eighty thousand just to where her mother used to have the job that she he was beaten by felicia moore so this will be the st city council they've had there in a long time without m l g b team member in two decades yeah and in d c also in the political realm who has been running the victory fund for the last two and a half years has quit she says at the center for american progress she has a long history in a lot of progressive movements and jobs and she said i just can't take it anymore i have to work out a bigger canvas so i am quitting i have done my work here she had a very successful stint at the victory fund which supports  anything we want and we hope it's of interest to you well the new head of the victory fund a nice parker the former well she's not a former lesbian she's the former mayor of houston out lesbian she's the new c e o the victory institute points out that there are there are four hundred and forty eight out l g b t officials in this country but we need in order to reflect our numbers in the population we need twenty one thousand three hundred and seven so you are encouraged to run and i know many of you  are yes as are others across the country that's the great news so terrific in florida the the liberty council is suing tampa florida the city for banning conversion where they're citing religious beliefs the same thing that's before the supreme court right now on the other hand in arkansas the governor hutches and there is finally directed the state issue accurate birth certificates to the children of same sex couples this is n n c l r national center for lesbian rights case that they want to june at the supreme court and the circuit judge ordered them to do it you know it's just about a respecting parents and things deano he was basically trying to get the guy's money inherited a big inheritance and almost a capitated them and dumped him in a ravine in mexico it was then sends to life in prison well he was you had a pregnant girlfriend while the jenny jones murder jenny jones was a talk show host and she set up a show where she invited people on to tell their secret crush that they had a crush on  some girl is going to come on and admitted a secret crush on him but no it's got amber door nother young man of his acquaintance who comes out and says i'm the one who has a secret crush on you well jonathan schmitz was so freaked out by this or so he claimed that a few days later he shot scott amador dead tried the gay panic defense he did but he ended up in prison with a sentence of twenty to fifty years and in august he was let out of prison after twenty two years i guess in prison he's now forty seven years old so people go in and they come out well but cases take a long time to come out of the philadelphia human rights commission this guy mark seaman was in a cab he kisses partner good night on the forehead even and the cab driver says get out of my cab ride out on the street and eight years later he  company says their contract driver is that they're not our employees we're not required to train them the catholic church started to use that defense of priests they said the priests are not ours yes they're contractors yes  the baby jesus and it's on a home law in california but for some reason this attracted the attention of the bishop of providence rhode island who saw this and called it a sacrament and an attack on the christian faith  finally fully legalized same sex marriage after the rd reading of the bill now doesn't start except for those who are already married in other countries who will now be recognized but for australians it starts january th because it turns out you have to give a month's notice to get married in us well you start to do all kinds of things in america to well you know we haven't we don't we don't let you get married the same day in new york unless you have a waiver no way you can go to las vegas and get married in five minutes so that's why and divorce did the next day i don't know how so in australia however they did do it and they do this interesting thing in the parliament where when they take votes they they have this thing called division require it you have to go you move physically to one side of the room or the other for your vote so we're going to show you the celebration moment when the vote passed but you'll see most of the parliament moving to watch it and they did defeat the bad religious exemptions they still have a little more well did they allow you if you are somebody who does marriages for the government to exempt yourself find all the current ones new ones have to agree to do it here's the damage and declare that you have to declare yourself and you can't change what if you had a conversion and then you get out of the business and of course this solves the problem that they've had with trans people getting australia german guy lives with his boyfriend in sydney but he's there on a tourist visa so as to go in and out of the country every six months to renew the tourist visa same thing happens here so he goes to japan and he comes back to australia but he gets stopped at customs and they find prac pails in his luggage and sex toys and they reject him and send him back to japan and say can't come in the country because he is assumed to be coming into the country to work as a prostitute oh my god i'm or in the united states of america in the early eighty's an address designer had a suitcase full of dresses that he was going to show it to show and they and what's happening in bermuda for gosh sakes the assembly there voted twenty four dollars to ten dollars to replace marriages which they have for same sex couples with domestic partnerships now that was ordered by the court the marriages  may so now you know they the senate is acting as we sit here they're trying to figure out what they're going to do we're worried about it and what the governor is going to do and what the courts are going to do a lot of cruise ships are registered bermuda and i've been selling all these marriage packages that they're not going to be able to do on the ships anymore if you get rid of same sex marriage oh man not good in every member of the naked but guys who are arrested in thailand it's a gay couple and they go around the famous sites and they show their butts and take a picture it's a very obnoxious so they were doing this at some sacred temple site in thailand and they tie police arrested attacked and shut down the queer come pala international film festival this is the nd year the film festival is tried to take place this was evidently a very vicious attack by the cops but the activists bless them are going to try again it's still wanted in austria now it's also true as in australia same sex couples married outside of austria are married there right now because the we weren't sure how long this was going to kick in to allow civil partnerships for heterosexual couples and they said that they're probably going to pass that early next year but but the but the prime minister of samoa does not says it's a christian country and we will never have same sex marriage news yes gillie a pharmaceutical company is committing one hundred million dollars over ten years to combat the hiv epidemic in the southern united states which is a good thing because the centers for disease control says that forty four percent of those infected in the us live in the south and that the epidemic is being driven by opioid use poverty stigma poor health care and the more die in the south than elsewhere and i'm worried about you know the going to be a shortage of a lot of drugs with all these cuts that are coming in this tax scam bill in brazil however they're going to give out prep now at thirty five dollars clinics and they brazil is the country that distributes more condoms than any place in the world well they used to be 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they said no it wasn't in the mike nichols document now i had heard rumors about mike for years but here is the casual mention in the time something personal by and for christmas