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- Hey, okay, okay. - Yay, picnic!

- Yeah. - Picnic!

- See?

- This is it. - Yeah, it's right here.

- Right here. - That's a nice place.

- Oh, look at this place. Isn't this cool? One scoop each.

- What can I get you?

- Okay. All right I've got to take Alyssa to get a bathing suit. You guys good?

- Yes, I do. We're going to go kill some time at the bookstore, right?

- Don't be too long because I got to go to Dorothy's to do the mowing and the weeding.

- Oh, I want to go to Miss Dorothy's. - Me, too. Can I go too?

- You can, all right, but you have to work first and then you can play with Buster out back.

- Yeah!

- All right. All right, people, Mom's ready to go. Let's move like we have a purpose. Ready?

- Aye aye, captain! - All right.

- All right. See you.

- Come on up. See you. Have fun.

- Bye, Momma.

- Hi. Would you like to sign our petition?

- Sure. What it's for?

- Basically, we just want to protect traditional marriage. You know, keep it between one man and one woman.

- Yeah, I've heard of that.

- What's a petition?

- Well, it's a piece of paper that voters sign in order to get their voices heard.

- Can| sign it?

- You can't even write yet.

- I can sign my name, mama taught me.

- Oh, no, sweetie, you have to 18 years old to sign this.

- My dad is a whole lot older than that.

- I definitely am much older than that and I blame you, and I blame you. Thank you very much.

- Of course.

- Let's go. Are you ready?

- Yahoo! - Yahoo!

- Let's go.

Come on guys.

- Okay. Okay. Hey!

- Miss Dorothy!

- Hi.

- How are you? -Where's Buster?

- Can we play with Buster?

- Of course.

- No. Well, we have to do chores first and that means watering the flowers and shrubs

out back and then I'm going to mow out the front. Then, you can play with Buster. Okay?

- Sorry, kids. You have to do what your dad says. But Buster will be waiting for you.

- Yeah.

- All right. So good to see you. - Good to see you.

- Come on, let's do it. Let's go to work.

- Good dog.

- Hi. I am done.

- I know you ought to be tired.

- Yeah. The kids are behaving?

- Yes, they are having a ball with Buster.

- Mm-hmm. They love that dog.

- Oh, they do. I know they do.

- Hey, I haven't seen these photos before. Did you have these out last week?

- No I put these out because my son and his family are coming to visit next weekend.

- The minister?

- Yes. I think I told you that he has taken a church here in town and he's moving here.

- I bet you're excited.

-Yes, I am.

- Yeah, these are great. Who's this right here?

- That was my husband when he was in the service. He passed away 12 years ago.

- Yeah. And this?

- That was my daddy. I never knew him.

- Oh?

- Momma said he disappeared, the year I was born, 1935.

- Did he leave your mom?

- No, no. He was crazy about my mom. When I say he disappeared, no one ever heard from him again.

- He was working in a coal mine just outside of Birmingham, Alabama.

- Did it collapse?

- No. He disappeared on the peonage. He could have died or been shipped somewhere else and died.

- Peonage, I've never heard of that before.

- Well, after the Civil War, down in the south,

the law would often charge black folks with any crime that they can think of,

mining companies and farmers and all would pay the local sheriff a few

bucks and black men and sometimes even women and children were forced to work for nothing.

- Hadn't slavery been abolished by then?

- Yes. After the Civil War the Constitution outlawed slavery except for punishment for a crime.

So white folks just drawn up all kinds of crimes in order to be served by the blacks

and they had to work until the work was done or until they died.

- Wow, I've never heard of that.

- Daddy, we're hot. Can we go home and change and you squirt us with the water hose?

- Yeah, yeah. Give Miss Dorothy a hug first.

- Goodbye, Miss Dorothy.

- Goodbye, darling. Thank you so much for helping water my flowers.

- Yes, ma'am.

- Thanks for letting us play with Buster.

- You are so welcome. I am sure he enjoyed it as much as you did.

- If you ever want to get rid of him, we'll keep him.

- Nice try, son. That's never going to happen.

- Ah, come on, Dad.

- No. Come on, let's go. Thanks, Dorothy.

- Bless you.

- Talk to you later. Bye now.

- Have a good one.

- Hey, Ron, what's up?

- Temperature, taxes, blood pressure, you name it.

- So your business looks booming.

- Whoever figured out how to make coffee a warm weather drink is a genius. I'll retire early.

- Thank you.

- Coffee black, bagel, plain.

- There you go.

- You are one boring, straight man, Ted.

- And why is that, because I like my coffee black?

- Look, the other night your wife made a tremendous gourmet meal.

- Yeah, she did, didn't she?

- At the evening's entertainment you picked a John Wayne movie.

-So?

- Black and white John Wayne movie, Ted. - So what?

- Boring.

- All right. What are you, a communist or something? You don't like John Wayne?

- Boring.

- Okay. But my wife thinks I'm very exciting. She tells me this all the time.

- She's lying to you, Ted.

- Give that back.

- What do you mean, this? - Yes.

- This whole one dollar tip? No way. I'm paying off my mortgage with this.

- Yeah, with my boring tip money.

- You're hopeless. Do you know that?

- So, how are the kids enjoying the summer vacation?

- Yeah. The real question is how is Lynn enjoying the summer vacation?

She's the one with the kids and all.

- And the answer is?

- Uh, it's not fit for public establishment.

- Tell her I said stay strong.

- Okay. I will.

- All right.

- Yeah, you too. Thanks, man.

- Yup.

- Talk to you later. - Hello. How can I help you?

- Murphy residence. Daddy, telephone.

-Who is it, son?

- Another man saying bad words. - Alright, give me the phone.

- All right. Hello? Who is this? No, no, you listen to me.

I don't know what you and your buddies think you're doing by calling my house at this hour.

What kind of grown man uses that kind of language with a kid? Yeah, same to you!

- Is that another obscene phone call?

- Yeah.

- That's three in the last two days.

- More than that. I've gotten that many today alone.

- I don't know what's going on here, but let's just disconnect this thing.

We don't need a landline. We all have cellphones. - Okay. I'll call tomorrow.

- If I ever catch these people.

- Who do you think is doing this?

- I don't know. Kids, you go on and watch TV or something.

-I'm sorry.

- It's okay.

- Look, I don't really feel comfortable with you guys being here alone without me, okay?

So if you guys can come up to the store we can find something for them to do. They can just fold T shirts or

something. Tina and Ashley are still on vacation. I need help with these two big orders coming in,

s0 we can do that. - Are you that worried about these phone calls?

- Yeah, I really am. I don't know what we're dealing with here. I just feel comfortable with you guys close by.

- Okay. The kids like it there anyway. It's okay.

- I know. I love you.

- Hey, hon, I'm going to run next door to get some coffee. You want one?

- No, I'm good.

- I want something. Can I get a smoothie?

- Yeah, me, too?

- No. We're going to go get lunch soon. You'll spoil your appetites.

- But we're thirsty.

- There's plenty of water in the refrigerator.

- Hey, Ron, what's up?

- Come over here.

- Okay. What's up? What's going on?

- What's up? Do you want to know what's up?

- Yeah.

- This is the Equality Today, one of the city's gay newspapers.

- Okay. So when is a newspaper gay? Is it having a crush on The Tribune?

- Look.

- Okay. This is my name and my home and store address?

- That's right, genius.

-What is this?

- Did you sign the anti-gay marriage petition?

- No. I've never sign anything anti-gay.

- Well, you must have signed something. I mean they just didn't pull your name out of thin air.

- Well, I signed something last month, but it was a petition for traditional marriage.

- The anti-gay marriage petition.

- Ron, come on, you know that I'm not anti-gay.

- Look, I know what you believe. I mean we've been down that road, we've had those arguments,

but it's one thing to argue over theoretical stuff and another to do this to me.

- Do what to you? I signed this stupid petition. It doesn't mean a thing.

- It means something to me, Ted.

- You've come to my house. I've been over to your home countless times and you just stabbed in the heart like that.

- Stabbed you in the heart. I don't even know why- why are you so upset about this?

- By signing this petition you're saying that I am not allowed to get married. Isn't that right?

- No, it's not right. You know what--

- Look, Ted, you come in here day after day and you act like you think I'm a human being. But when it comes right down--

- No. It's not fair.

- When it comes right down to it, you don't think I'm human being enough to be married, am I?

Think about that the next time you want a plain bagel. Keep the paper.

- Where are you going? Come on, man, come back and let's just talk.

- Well, that explains the calls.

- What calls?

- The obscene calls.

-What is this?

- Obviously, it's a gay paper. These people are against this petition for traditional marriage,

and we talked about it in the church. -And?

- And the gay organizations in here, I mean they got the names and addresses of everybody that signed it.

I mean, it's in the paper. It's probably online by now.

- What does it have to do with us?

- I signed this.

- You did what? When?

- A month ago. Do you remember when you took Alyssa to get a bathing suit?

I signed it on the way to the bookstore with the other kids.

- And they put your name on the papers for doing that?

- Yes. The paper is encouraging these gay activists to boycott business owners who signed it.

- How did you even find this?

- Ron. He showed it to me. I mean he's ticked off, really.

- At you?

- Yes. Yes, for signing it. I mean he chewed me out in the coffee shop in front of everyone, the customer, the employees.

- Did you explain it to him it wasn't personal?

- Yes, I did. I mean he's taking it personal, real personal.

- Oh, poor Ron.

- Poor Ron? Lynn, my name is in this paper.

- It's going to be okay. What could the activists do?

- I don't know. They can call. They can complain. I don't know what they do.

- Ted, how many gay customers do you think we have?

- One. I know we have one.

- Okay. Go talk to Ron when he cools off.

- Forget it. I didn't do anything wrong here. Okay?

He got up in my case so he needs to come here and make it right.

- We've been friends with him for years. Go get a cup of coffee. Go talk to him.

- Oh, so his employees can spit in my coffee, Lynn, no. Just count me out.

- Ted, that's stubborn pride.

- I guess it is.

- I'm going to go check on the kids.

-Wow, the Millers got a new swing set

- You know, I just I don't know how we are going to make it.

- Honey, I know it's been tough. We still have two contracts left to fill.

It will be tight but I think it's a good summer we'll get through.

- I hope so. We're behind on rent. We still owe a bunch of them already.

- Yeah, I know.

- Daddy.

- Yeah, hold on. Summer is always like this.

We still have a week left before the softball tournament shirt to do

and then we're going to start on school shirt to get those done. Tina and her sister,

they're back from vacation today so they'll be able to help us.

I promise, everything's going to be done on time.

- I know you're right, but I'm still nervous.

- Daddy?

- What?

-What does that mean, what they wrote? What's a bigot?

- It means when one person is mean to somebody because of who they are.

A bigot hates a particular group of people.

- Why did they call Daddy a bigot?

- We believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.

Dad signed a petition saying that and someone found out and he did not like it.

- And because of that they wrote on our window?

- Looks that way.

- Why don't you go inside and get that box with the razor blades,

you know, the other ones that we used to scrape paint off the floor.

- Yeah.

- I think it's about time we get that paint off our window.

Hey, girls, why don't you take the little ones in, too, okay?

- Okay.

- Hey.

- Lynn. What's going on? Who did this?

- We don't know. Ted is so upset.

- Are you and the kids okay?

- Yeah. We're okay.

Hey, you know he didn't mean to hurt your feelings by signing that petition, right?

I mean, he told me about your argument,

I told him just to go talk to you, but he's proud.

You guys need to straighten this out. Okay?

- Bye, Lynn.

-Hah, il buy it.

- Another Monopoly? You're going to kill us.

- She already has Park place. She gets Boardwalk, we are toast.

- Bethany, Jesus doesn't want you to be greedy.

- Who do you think is helping me win?

- My tum.

- Hey, Lynn.

- Huh?

- My tum.

- What is it?

- Well, the vandalism at the store made newspaper website,

a little photo here and short story. - What does it say?

- It just says what happened. I mean, they quote me in saying

that vandalism is probably from the marriage petition and they're quoting some guy

named Vincente Ramos from the Clairemont Pride, some gay

lesbian activist group and he's saying,

"The Clairemont Pride abhors criminal behavior but bigotry shouldn't be tolerated.”

- What does that mean?

- I guess he's saying that what the vandal did was wrong

but I'm also wrong for signing the petition.

- No--yeah, I get that. The signing the marriage petition is bigotry but--

- What don't you understand?

-What does he mean by signing the petition should never be tolerated?

I mean, is that a threat?

- No. Let's hope not.

- Gay is okay! Gay is okay! Gay is okay!

- Okay. That's fine. We'll just talk later. It's okay.

- Yeah! Whoa! Yeah.

- This is illegal, right? This isn't a public right of way. They're hindering our business.

- Honey, ordinarily you'd be right. I just talked to this cop.

He spoke with the owner of the property and he okay-ed the protest.

- Mr. Goodman? I don't believe it. That's ludicrous. We're his lawful tenants.

- I know, honey. I talked to him, too. He just doesn't want to tangle with these people.

He doesn't want to have them removed from the property.

So he just said just ignore them and they'll eventually go away.

- Hey, look, we're going to be in the newspaper again.

- No, no, honey, that's not the newspaper, that's the TV station van. Yeah, that's great.

- No, I know sweetie. Don't worry about it. It's okay. I understand, okay?

No, I know. I know, I know.

Mm-hmm. Right. You should listen to your parents.

I completely understand. Okay? Okay.

All right, you too, honey. All right. Bye.

- What?

- That's Tina. Her and her sister told their parents about the protest today and they don't want them

coming back to the store. They said they're sorry that they can't give their two weeks but

their parents are afraid for their safety.

- Yeah. Well, I can't say I blame them. You'll be okay?

- I don't know. How are we going to get all those orders done without them?

They've been working for us for two summers now. They're going to be hard to replace.

- I know. We'll be okay.

- Daddy, the news is on.

- Oh come on. Come on. My interview's on. Finally get to share my side of the story.

Here we go. Okay. Turn up. Tum up.

- Mr. Murphy, do you regret signing that petition?

I mean, clearly you can see what hurt it's caused the gay and lesbian community in Clairemont.

- Look, I didn't mean to hurt anybody. Okay?

I just signed a petition to express my beliefs about traditional marriage.

- But denying gays and lesbians the right to marriage? Well, that's not -

- Okay. I said more than that.

- --The protesters from Clairemont Pride.

- How am I hurting Mr. Murphy and his family? My girlfriend and I have been together for 10 years.

We're hardworking people, we pay our taxes, we're not hurting anyone else.

How could people be so cruel to deny us the right to marry?

- I can't believe this. Oh, great.

-I am here with Vincente Ramos, Director of Clairemont Pride.

Now, Vincente, tell me, what are your reasons for this protest today?

- The kind of hatred and bigotry demonstrated by the Murphy--

- "Hatred and bigotry"?

- —Should not be allowed in Clairemont.

And they have children in there. What are they teaching them?

- How long are you planning on holding this protest

- Everyday during business hours, until Ted Murphy publicly apologizes

to the gay and lesbian community. Then he-—-

- That's not gonna happen.

- Reporting to you live from Ted's T's. I'm Arcadia Vargas, KQVS News.

- You said that's our side of the story?

- I spoke with this woman for 20 minutes.

I gave her all my reasons for why I believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

- Yeah. Apparently, she wasn't interested.

- No, apparently.

-What do we want? - Marriage equality.

-When do we want it? - Now.

-What do we want? - Marriage equality.

-When do we want it? - Now.

- Hello. Ted's Ts. Yeah, this is he. No, no, I don't have any comments. I'm sorry. Okay.

Ted's Ts. This is Ted Murphy. As I said before, my comment is that I don't have a comment.

Okay? That's enough. I'm sorry.

Hey.

- Hey.

- Well, the protest has been going on for days. I'm surprised they haven't picketed our house.

- Yeah, small mercies.

- Yeah. Did you see what they said about us in the paper?

- Yes, Ted, I did.

- That we're the symbol of bigotry in the community.

And we should be shunned because we need to see the light or shun until we

actually go out of business.

They're saying that we're pariahs and this one says we're no better than a fungus? Lynn, come on.

Really? A fungus? A pariah?

I mean, the TV crew is treating us like a carnival. Step right up and see the family of bigots because

they believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

So, did you get the T shirts folded?

- Are you close?

- It doesn't matter. Mr. Livingston just called me on my cellphone.

They're canceling their orders.

- The school cancel led? We've been doing their band T shirt for eight years now.

- Oh, no, not just the band T shirts, the booster club, the PE, the senior class T shirts,

the beta club, even the chess club. They all canceled.

- That's great. All of them, they all cancel led.

- Mr. Livingston said they got a couple of calls from school board members.

They said that they saw the coverage on the local news, read the stuff in the newspapers.

He said he's sorry but the pressure is building.

- The pressure. He didn't even know what the pressure is, this guy.

I mean, we haven't walked in traffic since the tolerance people,

they're are no longer tolerant of us anymore. We lost the

park and rec accounts and three businesses that are buying T shirts from us for years.

Two family reunions and we lost the church, Lynn, a church.

-Well, it's was an Episcopal Church.

- Yeah, but still

- Well, on the other hand, we picked up the conservative Anglican Church down the street

and they have a conference in September. They thought we could use the business.

- If we're in business until September.

- Come on back.

- Why?

- Just come on.

- Why?

- The kids have something for you.

- Okay. And stay here and let the store stay open for the barbarians to loot?

- Be frank. No one's buying anything today.

- Great. I feel better already. All right.

-Come on.

- I have work to do. We have orders to fill.

- I know. I know you have a lot of work to do.

-And people out in the parking lot protesting?

- Yeah.

- What?

- Surprise!

- Surprise!

- That's great. Thank you so much.

- Bethany wanted to say “the world's greatest bigot...

- Yeah. I don't think she really understood what that meant.

- Let's hope not, right?

-Well, I didn't know it was bad.

- The world's greatest bigot.

- Oh, yeah, you're the one. Right.

- Okay.

- This is so awesome guys. I can't thank you enough. Look at this.

It's great. I'm so crazy about you guys. Thank you.

- Hey.

- Hey.

- Yay, smoothie.

- Okay. I've got two coffees. One dark and boring. Yes. A caramel mocha.

- Thank you.

- A strawberry smoothie for Alyssa. Chocolate smoothie for Bethany and a chocolate for Teddy.

- Thank you, Mr. Ron. - Thanks, Mr. Ron.

- You're welcome.

- Thanks, Ron.

- You're sweet, Ron. All right, kids, come on. Get your drinks,

let's go out front. Let daddy and Mr. Ron talk.

- Bye, Mr. Ron.

- Bye.

- Since when do you come in the side door?

- Well, since you started having a mob at the front door.

- Yeah. It's annoying.

- Yeah.

Did you make this T shirt for yourself?

- No. My kids made it for me.

- Is that right?

- That's right.

- Sure, they did.

How are you guys been hanging in?

- Lousy. What else can I say, I mean I just found out I lost a couple of big contracts.

- Ted, I'm so sorry.

- Yeah, well, thanks. I mean it wasn't like we're doing great before this all happened anyway, you know.

- Yeah.

- Thanks for the coffee.

- Yeah.

But don't get me wrong. I still hate you for what you did.

But we've been friends for a long time and with a protest and all,

I just started getting worried about Lynn and the kids, and you.

- Thanks, buddy. I'm sorry I hurt you over this, too.

- Well, there's no easy way out of these conflicts for any of us, is there?

- I guess not.

- And until further notice, the coffee and the smoothies are on the house, okay?

- And T shirt for you as well. Actually, I probably have a bunch of them available shortly.

- My! You do have a dark sense of humor, don't you?

- You know me, dark and boring.

- Yeah.

- Hi.

- I'm here to see Mr. Goodman.

- What's your name?

- Vincente Ramos from Clairemont Pride.

- Okay. Just one second.

Mr. Vincente Ramos from Clairemont Pride is here to see you.

- Send him out here.

- Okay. Thanks. All right. You go right down the hallway.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- How can I help you, Vince?

- Well, Paul, it's about your tenant, Ted Murphy?

I assume you're aware of what's happening at the store.

- Yes, I'm aware of it.

- At Clairemont Pride, we don't feel there's any place in our city

for the kind bigotry expressed by Ted Murphy.

- I couldn't agree with you more, Vince.

I'm a firm believer in fairness and equality.

- Well, that's good to know. It is the 21st century.

The city of Clairemont's businessmen should be on board and take a lead on these matters.

- Well, unfortunately, in this case I can't help you.

Ted and Lynn Murphy are my legal tenants and they have a rental contract.

- How are they doing at that location, business-wise I mean?

- I think they're doing pretty well. I mean they're like most people in this economy, they struggle.

And as for me, if I lose them as tenants, then that building sits empty.

- Of course, I wouldn't want that to happen.

I certainly wouldn't want my protest to hurt you in any kind of way, Paul.

- Yeah. But if your protest put the Murphy's out of business,

that seems to be your goal, that's going to hurt my realty business.

- That's part of the reason why I'm here today. You see this protest has caught the attention of a lot of folks

in the gay community, even outside of Clairemont.

-And?

- Donations to Clairemont Pride had increased as a result.

And I wanted to let you know that we are considering changing our location.

- Is that so?

- And my board and I feel that your property,

meaning the store where the Murphy's are currently doing business,

will be a perfect spot.

- That's a prime spot. That's for sure.

- And if rent would happen to go up a little beyond what you're currently

charging that would not be a deal breaker whatsoever.

- Hmm, inflation and all.

- Exactly.

- Well, let's say that puts my mind at ease.

I mean I was worried about that property sitting vacant.

- That's why I thought a good face-to-face meeting will be helpful.

- Did you make these?

- No. Dorothy brought them by.

- How sweet of her. It's nice that the ladies brought over supper.

- Yeah. A few ladies from Sunday school said

are bringing over dinner every night this week, but I told them that we're okay.

- Are we?

- Well, food is really not the problem.

They could buy six months worth of T shirt orders, it will make a difference.

- Yeah.

- Did you get back to pastor?

- Yeah. I called him back and he said everybody's concerned

and they're praying for us and blah blah.

- Ted, that's awful.

- Well that's how I feel right now. We're being pounded into the concrete.

I want to know where is God. Where is He? Do we have some kind of secret sin in our lives here?

- Ted, don't be like that.

- What should I be, Lynn? I didn't ask for any of this. I don't want to be a culture warrior.

I'm not a hero. I just signed a stupid petition. A fluke, a whim.

- But you believe in that petition, that marriage is between one man and one woman.

- Yeah, but I didn't want to go to war over it. I just want my family.

I want to build my business and I want to mind my own.

- Sometimes life crashes into our own little world.

- Okay. So I'll just tell to Mr. Goodman when he comes to collect three months rent.

- Have you talked to him?

- Yes, a few minutes ago on the phone. He's coming by the store after we close.

- What are you going to tell him?

- Oh, I'm going to tell him that the church is praying for us and everything's going to be okay.

- Ted, don't say things like that.

- Okay, fine. How about if I tell our landlord that,

"Hey, Mr. Goodman. I don't have three month's rent. I don't have that."

Then we're going to probably lose our store.

I'm sorry. I'll be okay.

- Clairemont Pride is here to show these haters we're not going to stand for their bigotry!

- Will you look at her pretending to be

some objective reporter chasing after a story?

- What are you going to do?

I mean you told her your views last week and she didn't care.

- It isn't right and it is not fair.

- What that's old expression?

The power of the press belongs to those who have one.

- Yeah. But I still have the right to complain, don't I?

That's what I'm going to do.

— Clairemont Pride is here to show these haters we're not going to stand for their bigotry.

We want that cancer out of here.

- Mr. Murphy, over here. Mr. Murphy.

Well, hello, Mr. Murphy. How are you today?

-Well, I'm actually a little frustrated. Okay.

My wife and I, we watched this news feature on a protests last week.

You didn't include any of the reasons I gave for traditional marriage. I think

what you aired was not fair.

- Okay. I see. And what didn't you think was fair about it?

- Well, I spent 20 minutes or more with you in the store

and you didn't include anything that I said about traditional marriage.

- Okay, wait, but that's not what the story was about, Ted.

- What do you mean?

- Well, the story wasn't about why you opposed gay marriage, but about the fact that you do

- I mean, you're the one that signed the the petition.

And it upset the gay community in Clairemont!

- Okay. Let me get this straight. All that matters is that the homosexual community

got its feelings hurt and I'm automatically the bad guy?

- Whoa, whoa, I didn't say you were the bad guy.

- You have the head of Clairemont Pride come out here and say that I'm demonstrating hatred

and bigotry because I support traditional marriage?

And then you say that you have two lesbians that I was

cruel to them? Do you honestly think that this kind of reporting

is not going to make me out to be a bad guy for your viewers?

- You are the bad guy and she told the truth.

- Last time I checked it's still America here, I can believe what I want.

- Your hatred and intolerance is not American and we do not want them in our community.

- Okay, wait, why does it automatically have to be hatred and intolerance, Vince?

Is that because you disagree with me?

- It's hatred and intolerance because we say so.

-Who's "we"?

- Society — well, at least the loving and tolerant.

- Oh, the loving and tolerant would agree with you, right?

-We're not here to debate this, Ted.

We determine what is acceptable in our community- not a bigot like you.

- Okay.

- What you need to do is publicly apologize for your outdated views and embrace the change,

or lose your business. Those are your options.

- Okay. So, are you telling me that what I did was wrong?

Signing a petition about my beliefs about traditional marriage

but it's okay for you to punish me for doing so?

- Yeah, exactly.

You can't have hate and your business, too.

- Yes. That is my business and you don't go after some guy and his family.

You don't go after them to hurt them, Vince.

- I don't give a flip about your litter, hater.

- Yeah, I know you don't.

- We hate hate! We hate hate! We hate hate!

(knocks on door)

(knocks on door)

- Lynn?

- Hi, yes. Can-?

- Ted Murphy, right?

- Yeah, yes. Is there something I can do for you?

- I'm Reverend Greg Blanchett. I'm Dorothy Blanchett's son.

- Hey, Reverend. Come on in. - How are you?

- I'm great. - Nice meeting you.

- Yeah, thank you so much.

Here, please, please have a seat. - Thank you.

- Yeah. Can I get you something to drink?

- No, thank you. I'm fine.

- Are you sure?

- Yeah. Nice place.

- Thank you. It's all my wife, Lynn. She's good at that.

Well, we adore your mother. She's something else.

- Thank you. Thank you.

She speaks very highly of you and your family, too.

- Thank you. So what can I do for you?

- Well, I know who you are and what you're going through,

the protest down at the store.

- Hmm. Oh, yeah.

- Yeah, I know. I've seen you on TV, came out to observe one day.

But I want you to know, Ted, you're not in this fight alone.

- Well, I feel like I'm alone.

- Yeah, but you're not. You have my support, that of my church and we're behind you.

- Well, actually, it's going to be over pretty soon anyway.

- Oh, really? You're going to call the protest off?

- No. It's just the opposite really.

The protest is going to accomplish their goal

and I don't think our business is going to survive.

- Oh, I see. I'm sorry, Ted.

This has got to be heartbreaking for you.

- Yeah, it does. You know, my wife and I have been building this business now for the last

several years from scratch and it's just really

it's hard to see it go away. I don't want to lose it to

something like this.

- Something like what?

- Well, the petition. I signed the petition for traditional marriage.

It was just an impulse on a sunny day.

I don't really see what good my little signature is going to do.

- Ted, because of the protest, everybody is talking about this issue now

and that's a good thing because it give us the opportunity to tell the truth about marriage.

And people will listen at a time like this.

Look, Ted, black folks in this country we know about bigotry.

We're tired of Christians being called bigots because they believe in the Bible.

It's time we took our firm stand and tell the world we won't be moved.

I recommend going on the offensive— speaking out.

- Oh, how? I mean, what do you mean?

- We scheduled a rally. Our church will be there, many supporters.

- Oh, wow. I guess that's a great idea.

- Do you like that? - How do [ fit into this?

- Good. We want you to be the keynote speaker, Ted.

- Huh?

- Can you be bold enough to do that, Ted?

- No. Look, I don't public speak. I haven't - |-

- We'll be with you standing right there.

- Look, Reverend, with all due respect, I'm losing my business on this issue and I,

I don't have it in my mind to ever speak about it again. Let alone speak at a rally.

- I think that would be a mistake, because this is more than just about you.

It's more than about defining marriage. It's about our religious freedom, Ted.

That's what's on stake here, to have the

freedom to speak the truth without threats or harassment.

- I don't know.

- Now for some reason, this trial has found its way to you

and I believe there's a reason for it.

- Yeah. I don't see it that way.

I see a wrong guy in a wrong place at the wrong time. That's how I look at it.

- Ted, if you believe that God oversees our lives, you can't look at this like a fluke,

like the wind blew you to the left when it should have blown you to the right.

- I don't know what I believe anymore and

I'm really not sure what I'm supposed to be doing right now.

- Where are Lynn and the kids?

- Out for pizza.

- How come you didn't go with them?

I mean, you probably need a night out just as much as they did.

- I did. I just had a lot of paperwork to finish up.

And Mr. Goodman is going to come by.

- Oh?

- Yeah. Ron, we're behind and he wants to talk about it.

- Do you think he'll cut you some slack?

- No. We're a hemorrhaging business.

He wants his money and I don't have it.

- What are you going to do?

- I don't know. What can I do?

I just know that these protesters are not going to change my mind

by destroying my business.

- So you're not even willing to rethink your position on same sex marriage.

Maybe it's time to reconsider.

- Do you really think it's about gay marriage?

- Do you think this is about something else?

- Yes, I do. This whole debate is not just about personal preference.

I don't oppose homosexual marriage because I'm cranky.

- I know you're a Bible thump-er, Ted.

- I am not a Bible thump-er. Do I believe that the Bible is true?

Yes. Do I believe that mankind is male and female, sexually compatible genders?

Yes, that's what I believe and I still believe that

marriage flows from that sexual reality. Those are my beliefs, Ron.

- This isn't just about what you believe, Ted. It's about what you did.

- Signing a lousy petition?

- Yeah. By signing that petition you're pushing your views on the gay community.

- No. No, you got that all wrong. We're not pushing anything on anybody.

We didn't start this fight. The Christian view was here first,

if you remember that and the nation was built upon it.

And they're trying to redefine marriage, Ron, and they're asking us to shut up about it.

- Enough already. This endless debate isn't solving anything.

-No, it's not.

- I just don't want you to lose your business, Ted.

- Yeah, I know. It looks like it's too late for that.

- Hey, Paul.

- Hey, Ron.

- All right. Things are going good for you, huh?

- Yes. It's been pretty good.

- That's great.

- Well, guys, you all have a good evening.

- The Murphy's are good people, Paul. I mean, work with them, try to keep them open?

- I appreciate your concern, Ron.

- Come on in, Paul.

Thanks for coming in, Paul. Do you want to go sit in the back and talk?

- No. I don't think it's going to take very long. I just came by for the rent for your contract.

You know you're three months past due and usually I let it slide until the school contracts come in.

- Yeah, well, we lost that, Paul.

- So, you don't have the money.

- This protest is killing our business.

- I don't see how that's my problem.

- If you're going to allow the police to come in and move these people from the front.

That protest wouldn't have been on the local news. I would still have those contracts.

- Listen, if you hadn't stuck your nose where it didn't belong,

there never ever would have been any protest, Ted.

See? We can go back and forth on this trying to assign blame, but in the end, what's the point?

There's only one matter that concerns me and I think

you've answered that question. Have a nice evening.

- Yeah.

- The kids are in bed?

- Yeah. They're exhausted.

- Yeah, me, too.

- So, what did Mr. Goodman say?

- He wants his money.

- No extensions or anything.

- The money is due and he wants it now.

- That doesn't seem fair.

- I know. I know. Tell me about it.

- He could have helped us.

He allowed them to snuff our business and then he holds us

accountable for not having any business left.

- Yeah. He says it's my fault for getting involved in the first place.

I don't know, baby, maybe he just don't want to get involved himself in that kind of stuff.

I can't say that I blame him.

- What are we gonna do, Ted?

- I don't know what to do. I made a mistake signing that petition.

This is going to cost us everything. Just one signature. I'm sorry.

- Come on. Let's just go to bed, okay?

- Okay.

- Hey, Ron. - Vince.

- Looks like business is booming.

- Yeah, I do pretty good. What can I get for you?

- Cinnamon dolce latte and cinnamon scone.

- Cinnamon dolce latte and cinnamon scone.

I hear the troops are all stirred up over at the T shirts store.

- Yeah, things are going pretty well actually.

I'm finally starting to get to that bigot.

- Look, Vince, I know you're the big rabble rouser in town,

I think trying to run a man out of business is wrong.

- But I disagree. The only way to actually get anything done is

to know exactly what your goals are, Ron.

You're a successful business owner, you should know that.

You should join our protest for a while.

- I have a business to run, Vince.

- Our protest has bumped up your walk in traffic.

Showing a little solidarity for your community, it will probably do the same for sure.

- The Murphy's are my friends. I don't agree with Ted signing the petition and I told him so,

but I would not do anything to hurt them or their business.

- Had a pretty good authority that their business is not doing so hot.

Probably going to lose their store. When they do, Clairemont Pride office

is going right into their store front. Imagine what

that would do for your business?

I mean an already liked establishment owned and operated by gay man

right next to the gay pride center of town.

You should probably remember what side your bread gets buttered on.

- Your order is ready, Vince.

- Keep the change, Ron.

- Hi there. How are you today?

- Thanks for seeing me.

- No problem. Did my son come over to see you?

He said he was going to try to get over to your house.

- Yes, he did. Yes, ma'am.

- And? Are you going to speak at the rally?

- I don't know.

-Well then, Ted, tell me what's on your mind.

- Well, to tell you, Dorothy, it's that photo of your dad and that story you told me.

I just can't get it out of my head.

- I don't understand.

- I just I really want to know how black people endured slavery, Jim Crow Laws, peonage.

You know, there's just so many people that maintain their faith in God.

How do you, how do you do that, you know?

Because, I tell you, Dorothy, I'm not doing well right now and I'm not really sure what to do.

- Well, not all of us had done well, Ted.

Some of us were bitter over the years. I've had hard times, too.

Do you think I'd never struggled with bitterness against white folk?

I never grew up with my dad. He never held me,

brushed away my tears, or encouraged me to succeed in life.

I know about Jim Crow Law. I remember that I could not go and sit in a restaurant,

that I could not go to a movie theater and see a movie

and sit by a white person. - Yes, ma'am.

- And many times I can remember when I was called - you know what I was called.

- Yeah, yes, ma'am. I sure do.

- I'm sure gay people have suffered, too. I don't deny that.

Hatred and bigotry is a terrible thing. But I get tired of hearing about how gay is the new blacks.

Now as a black Christian, I'm also being

called a bigot because of what I believe about marriage,

I'm the bad guy. and after all these years we still have to fight for our religious liberty.

- What do you mean?

- You are the one being driven out of business, Ted, being told to get out,

that you are not wanted simply for being a faithful Christian.

- I never thought of it that way.

- So my question is: what are you going to do about it?

Just a minute. I want to give you something.

I want you to keep this for a while.

- Okay. I don't understand.

- Some people don't ever get a chance to fight back. And I want you to remember that.

- Thank you. I will.

- Thank you.

You know, our nation was born in fiery trial and our founding fathers,

they pledged their lives, and their fortunes,

and their sacred honor to establish this country as it states in the

Declaration of Independence. So I signed a petition for traditional marriage.

That act was an expression of my First Amendment

rights under the Constitution of this country.

What I want to know is, when did it become reprehensible in

this country, in America, to stand up for what you believe in?

The people screaming the loudest and demanding tolerance

are the least likely to extend it to somebody else.

They call me a bigot, a pariah because I believe

that marriage is a joining of two distinct

genders into one flesh.

Over our nation's history, a lot of brave men and women,

they've died to give me the right to speak my piece as I do so tonight,

to freely practice my religion. I don't intend to let them down by

surrendering those rights. No matter what the cost. I will never

ever again hesitate to stand for the truth and I hope that you don't either.

Thank you.

- Daddy, look.

-Can I sign?

- You are not old enough.

- Are you willing to sign?

- This is the best day ever.

- It is the best day ever.

- Yeah.