Moyers was on the show to talk about his new Frontline documentary Two American Families, which profiled two struggling families representative of America's shrinking middle class (Stephen Colbert: "Wow, he talked to both of them!").
One of my favorite parts: "The problem is not why so many people fall through the cracks; the problem is why there are so many cracks."
In bigger political news, the talk of the town was the Supreme Court's over-turning of DOMA. On my facebook feed and on the interwebs themselves, opinions are all over the place.
But I think this article best explains why the SCOTUS decision is a victory.
It doesn't affect people's heterosexual marriages. It certainly doesn't affect the state of the family unit at-large. If anything, the institution of marriage and the family unit are strengthened by granting equal benefits to already existing gay- and lesbian- headed families.
But it does affect people like Kelly Costello and Fabiola Morales, now allowed to apply for permanent residency for the foreign-born spouse.
“This means that gay and lesbian couples across the country and the world can plan for their futures and not have to live with uncertainty month after month,” said [lawyer] Steve Ralls.
“Now we will finally have the security and stability we always wanted as a family," said Costello.
Security and stability: things that strengthen all partnerships and families, whether hetero- or homosexual.
So thank you, SCOTUS.
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