(2013/07/04) The downfall of Bill Clinton's legacy (LGBT Rights)
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🗓️ 4 July 2013
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Edition #732
The downfall of Bill Clinton's legacy
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: When Hearts Break - Dan Savage - Air Date 5-14-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Don't go breaking my heart - Elton John
Ch. 4: Act 2: DOMA Is Dead. Hooray! - The Progressive Magazine - Air Date: 6-26-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Celebration - Kool & The Gang
Ch. 6: Act 3: DOMA Struck DOWN - Justice Scalia's Hypocritical Rage Quotes - The Young Turks - Air Date: 06-27-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Marry you - Bruno Mars
Ch. 8: Act 4: Bryan Fischer: Anti-Gay Activists Now Second Class Citizens - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 06-28-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Married by the sea - Theo Bard
Ch. 10: Act 5: Dealing With Your Gay Impulses - Jimmy Dore Show - Air Date 5-24-13
Ch. 11: Song 5: Adam & Steve - Nhojj
Ch. 12: Act 6: SCOTUS Strikes Down DOMA, Dismisses Prop 8 - Majority Report - Air Date: 06-26-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: January Wedding - The Avett Brothers
Ch. 14: Act 7: The Court Giveth and The Court Taketh - Mumia Abu-Jamal - Air Date: 6-29-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: Activism - Shihan
Ch. 16: Act 8: The Lives of All Americans Changed Drastically Today - Rachel Maddow - Air Date: 06-26-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Marry me - Arro Verse
Ch. 18: Act 9: Freedom to Marry - UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 19: Song 9: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 20: Act 10: Will DOMA be the Beginning of the New Civil War? - Thom Hartmann - Air Date: 06-27-13
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:06.4 | the membership tab at BestOfLeft.com. |
| 0:08.9 | Welcome to the award-winning BestOfLeft podcast with Cubsiday from Dan Savage, The Progressive |
| 0:13.4 | Magazine, The Young Turks, The David Pakman Show, The Jimmy Doar Show, The Majority Report, |
| 0:17.8 | Mumiya Abu Jamal, The Rachel Maddo Show, The Unfuck It Up Project, and The Tom Hartman |
| 0:22.4 | program. |
| 0:23.4 | And a note that if this episode makes you uncomfortable, then you make me uncomfortable. |
| 0:30.0 | The pace of change right now on marriage equality is staggering. |
| 0:34.2 | Rhode Island and Delaware both got marriage equality in the last couple of weeks. |
| 0:38.6 | Minnesota, if marriage equality comes to Minnesota this week, will be the 12th state |
| 0:43.0 | to achieve marriage equality in the United States. |
| 0:44.8 | And the third, since the Supreme Court, heard oral arguments on the Defense of Marriage |
| 0:49.4 | Act, the Federal Defense of Marriage Act, and California's Proposition 8. |
| 0:53.6 | The pace of change is staggering and heartening and thrilling. |
| 0:58.6 | The little is going right, right? |
| 1:01.7 | This is going very right, and it is a little flabbergasting. |
| 1:06.2 | I remember saying to someone not too long ago that I didn't expect to see marriage equality |
| 1:11.0 | in the United States in my lifetime. |
| 1:13.4 | I found it in not that I wrote for the New York Times that I was looking up to find something |
| 1:16.6 | else, and there it was. |
| 1:17.6 | Me saying not too long ago that this would not happen in my lifetime, and it is happening |
| 1:21.8 | in my lifetime. |
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