Despite the expected anti-gay rhetoric
from Republican elected officials coming out of the Texas, the state government
has largely complied with the U.S. Supreme Court’s June ruling in favor of marriage
equality for all Americans. However, according
to John Wright a Dallas, Texas based
journalist and publisher of Lone Star Q,
Texas' Statewide LGBT News Source, officials in the Lone Star State are only
just starting to show their first serious signs of resistance to the high
court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. John returns to the show today to update us
on conservative resistance to marriage equality in Texas and the two imminent lawsuits seeking to force Texas’ Department of State Health Services’ Vital
Statistics Unit to provide accurate birth and death certificates to same-sex
couples. You can also follow John on twitter.
In his new book Dissent: The History of an American Idea historian Ralph Young examines the key role dissent has played
in shaping the United States. From the
Puritan Anne Hutchinson and Native American chief Powhatan in the seventeenth
century, to the Occupy and Tea Party movements in the twenty-first century he
emphasis the way Americans, both celebrated and anonymous, responded to what
they saw as the injustices that prevented them from fully experiencing their
vision of America. Ralph joins us today
on the show to talk all about the book and discuss how The United States is a
nation founded on the promise and power of dissent. You can also follow Ralph on twitter.
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