By SueN
- Guests:
- Professor Marjorie Cohn, immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild; Professor of Law at the Thomas Jefferson school of Law at San Diego, CA and writer/author. Her latest book is "Rules of Disengagement".
- Captain Kelly Sweeney, Master Mariner; author.
- Dr. Riki Ott, Marine biologist, commercial fisher, environmentalist/activist/author of several books including "Not One Drop".
- Evan Wolfson, Civil Rights Attorney, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry.
- Topics:
- Decision to overturn gay marriage ban in California
- Latest on BP spill...capped, now what?
- What is the lasting impact on the people in the Gulf region?
- Gay Marriage ban overturned in California.
- Bumper Music:
- I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor.
- Anything Goes, Tony Bennett.
- Vogue, Madonna.
- The Ocean, Led Zeppelin.
- Breakdown, Daughtry.
- You're an Ocean, Fastball.
- Wavin' Flag, K'naan.
- Anything Goes (Chinese), from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
- Thank God It's Friday, Love and Kisses (video).
- Carl Wolfson of the KPOJ morning show and Christine Alexander formerly of the show guest host. Stream the show for the 3 hours before Thom is live.
- Today's newsletter has details of today's guests and links to the major stories and alerts that Thom covered in the show, plus lots more. If you haven't signed up for the free newsletter yet, please do. If you missed today's newsletter, it is in the archive.
- Quote: "The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last." -- Andrew Sullivan.
- Article: Amendment XIV.
Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
