Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Which Way, LA? asks if Prop. 8 will survive the Supreme Court
Warren talked to a group of activists and lawyers to try to answer Justice Sotomayor’s question, “If the issue is letting the States experiment and letting the society have more time to figure out its direction, why is taking a case now the answer?” The full show is below:
Tuesday 3:15 p.m. Social media and same-sex marriage
Are you seeing red on your Facebook feed today? A pink equal sign on top of a red background is a variation of the Human Rights Campaign’s blue and yellow logo and it is all over social media.
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According to Facebook, celebrities like Ricky Martin, Felicity Huffman and George Takei, as well as politicians like Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, changed their Facebook profile pictures to the red and pink image. (CNN)
Tuesday 2:15 p.m. Here’s a Soundcloud file of the full hearing (via LA Times)
A poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, released last week and conducted in mid-March, found that 14% of Americans say they have changed their minds about same-sex marriage. Roughly a third of them told pollsters it was because they know someone — a friend or family member or other acquaintance — who is gay.
On today’s “To the Point,” Warren talked with Andrew Kohut, President of the Pew Research Center about whether younger generations are more supportive of same-sex marriage. Kohut says yes. But in the clip below, Ryan Anderson from the Heritage Foundation and author of the book, “What is Marriage?” disagrees.
