I know we were talking about Anderson Cooper in another thread, but I just read this transcript snippet on a weblog and had to post it here.
Coop was interviewing the Rev. Jerry Falwell about gay marriage last night when this exchange happened (emphasis mine):
COOPER: But there are a lot of gay families out there, Reverend Falwell, there are a lot of gay families out there. I think there are like a million kids being raised by gay parents who say that if you want to protect families, you know, civil unions will give inheritance rights, will give Social Security, survivor benefits rights to...
FALWELL: Anderson, that's all a red herring. If you want to leave something to your cat, you can do that in your will...
COOPER: It's not a red herring. That's simply not true. It's not true. You know
we pay taxes.
The full transcript is here:
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...29/acd.01.html