MUST-SEE Cenk on MSNBC: Gay Marriage Is Inevitable - 'The Arc Of History Bends Toward Justice'

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Run time: 02:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQBrAtwVq0w   Posted on YouTube: August 04, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 310   Posted on DU: August 05, 2010 By DU Member: Hissyspit Views on DU: 2809

 
MSNBC Live w/ CENK UYGUR - 4 August 2010: Host of The Young Turks filling in for Chris Jansing on MSNBC Live explains why conservative opposition to gay marriage will eventually be crushed, just like opposition to civil and women's rights were.


CENK: "Now look, let's go to my take. Will there be gay marriage all across the country one day?

OF COURSE THERE WILL. Here me now, quote me later. It is INEVITABLE.

'Cuz as a very smart man once said in the middle of another civil rights battle: 'The arc of history bends toward justice.' This country is fundamentally progressive. When our Founding Fathers started a revolution for the idea of self-rule and democracy, it was arguably the single most progressive act in history.

Conservatives fought against women's rights. They fought against civil rights for Blacks. And they lost. They're fighting against gay rights, and THEY WILL LOSE. Because this country believes in progress and human rights. That is what it is absolutely based on.

So, we will go through this drama for some time more, but the final act is clear. And then looking back many years from now, Americans will shake their heads and say 'How could people have possibly thought that?' as they say now about people who fought against integration and a woman's right to vote: 'How could they have possibly thought that?' And at some point, some conservatives will pretend they were NEVER against it, and that they've ALWAYS been for equality for all. And some of them might even pretend to be fans of famous gay rights crusaders, like Harvey Milk, as some now pretend to be big fans of Martin Luther King.

We know better, but all of that will be irrelevant, because, in the end, there's only one thing this country does with conservative ideas when they fight against progress: They throw them in the trash bin of history."


PS---Hilarious right wing take on this video: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/08/04/msnbcs-cenk-uygur-assails-hateful-conservatives-who-opposed-women-an

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