Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur here's what's coming up.

Making history hope Francis backed same-sex civil unions.

Jesuit priest and LGBT ally Father James Martin joins me.

And I think that the apathy has just grown

and has just become so pervasive in our communities because people are just trying to survive.

African American women, the backbone of the Democratic Party.

I ask civil rights leaders Zona Clayton and historian Martha S Jones

about why what they did for equal rights is so often ignored. And... The reality is

that we have two very distinct candidates in front of us and that's what we have to choose from.

Latin ex voters could be this election's kingmakers.

Vice correspondent Kala Ramos warns us not to mistake them for a monolithic group.

I certainly do not believe that fraud is as prevalent as voter suppression.

Pro-publicer reporter Jessica Hoosman tells our Michelle Martin about the challenge

for voters in this norm-busting election. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in London. In a truly

momentous move for the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis has publicly

endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time.

The pontiff made the comments in an interview for a new documentary saying homosexual people

have the right to be in a family.

He added, what we have to create is a civil union law.

That way they are legally covered.

Let's talk about the impact of this and ask how will the wider church react.

Father James Martin is editor of the Jesuit magazine America.

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