Accidental Activist (2013)

1. - Hey, okay, okay.

2. - Yay! picnic!

3. - Yeah.

4. - Picnic!

5. - See?

6. - This is it.

7. - Yeah, it's right here.

8. - Right here.

9. - That'sa nice place.

10. - Oh, lookat this place.

11. Isn't this cool?

12. - Yeah.

13. - One sweet peach.

14. - Yum.

15. What are you gonna get?

16. - What can I get you?

17. - Okay, I want this one.

18. - Okay.

19. - It's the last oneon this row.

20. - All right. Whatdo you want?

21. - Okay, you're right. Thank you so much.

22. I appreciate it.

23. All right. Awesome. This is a fast eater.

24. - All right, i'vegotta take Alyssa

25. to get a bathing suit.You guys good?

26. - Yes, I do.

27. We're going to gokill some time at the

28. bookstore, right?- Uh-huh.

29. - Don't be too longbecause I gotta go to

30. Dorothy's to do themowing and the weeding.

31. - Oh, I want Togo to miss Dorothy's.

32. - Me, too. Can I go too?

33. - You can, all right, but you have to work first

34. and then you can playwith buster out back.

35. - Yeah!

36. - All right.

37. All right, people, mom's ready to go.

38. Let's move likewe have a purpose.

39. Ready?

40. - All right, captain.

41. - All right.

42. - All right.

43. - All right. Come on, guys.

44. - See you!

45. - See you. Have fun.

46. - Bye, momma.

47. Where's mommy going?

48. - Hi. would you like tosign our petition?

49. - Sure. What it's for?

50. - Basically, we just want to protect

51. traditional marriage.

52. You know, keep it betweenone man and one woman.

53. - Yeah, i'veheard of that.

54. - What'sa petition?

55. - Well, it's a pieceof paper that voters sign

56. in order to gettheir voices heard.

57. - Can I sign it?

58. - You can't even write yet.

59. - I can signmy name on it, Teddy.

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

61. to sign this.

62. - My dad is a wholelot older than that.

63. - I definitely am mucholder than that

64. and I blame you, and I blame you.

65. Thank you very much.

66. - Of course.

67. - Let's go. Are you ready?

68. - Yahoo!

69. - Yahoo!

70. - Let's go.

71. Come on guys.

72. Okay. Okay.

73. Hey!

74. - Miss Dorothy!- Hi.

75. - Where's buster?

76. - Can we play with buster?

77. - No.- of course.

78. - No. well, we have todo chores first

79. and that means wateringthe flowers and shrubs

80. out back and then I'm goingto mow out the front.

81. Then, you canplay with buster. Okay?

82. - Sorry, kids. You have todo what your dad says.

83. But buster will bewaiting for you.

84. - Yeah!

85. - All right. Sogood to see you.

86. - Good to see you.

87. - Come on, let's do it.

88. Let's go to work.

89. - Good doggie.

90. - Hi. I am tired.

91. - I know you oughttabe tired.

92. - Yeah. The kidsare behaving?

93. - Yes, they are havinga ball with buster.

94. - Mm-hmm (affirmative).

95. They love that dog.

96. oh, they do.

97. I know they do.

98. - Hey, I haven't seenthese photos before.

99. Did you have theseup last week?

100. - No. I put theseout because my son and his

101. family are coming tovisit next weekend.

102. - The minister?

103. - Yes. I think I told you that he has taken

104. a church here in townand he's moving here.

105. - I bet you're excited.

106. - Yes, I am.

107. - Yeah, these are great.

108. Who's this right here?

109. - That was my husband whenhe was in the service.

110. He passed away12 years ago.

111. - Yeah. And this?

112. - That was my daddy.I never knew him.

113. - Oh?

114. - Momma saidhe disappeared,

115. the year I was born, 1935.

116. - Did he leave your mom?

117. - No, no. He wascrazy about my mom.

118. When I say he'disappeared,"

119. no one ever heardfrom him again.

120. He was working in a coalmine just outside of

121. Birmingham, Alabama.

122. - Did it collapse?

123. - No. he disappearedon the peonage.

124. He could have diedor been shipped

125. somewhere else and died.

126. - Peonage, I've neverheard of that before.

127. - Well, after the civil war,

128. down in the south, the lawwould often charge black

129. folks with any crimethat they can think of,

130. mining companies andfarmers and all would pay

131. the local sheriff afew bucks and black men

132. and sometimes even womenand children were forced

133. to work for nothing.

134. - Hadn't slaverybeen abolished by then?

135. - Yes.

136. After the civil war theconstitution outlawed

137. slavery except forpunishment for a crime.

138. So while folks just drummedup all kind of crimes

139. in order to be served by the blacks and they had

140. to work until the work wasdone or until they died.

141. - Wow, I've neverheard of that.

142. - Daddy, we're hot. Can we go home

143. and change and you sprayus with the water hose?

144. - Yeah, yeah.

145. Give miss dorothya hug first.

146. - Goodbye, miss Dorothy.

147. - Goodbye, darling.

148. Thank you for helping mewater my flowers.

149. - Yes, ma'am.

150. - Thanks for lettingus play with buster.

151. - You are so welcome.

152. I am sure he enjoyed itas much as you did.

153. - If you ever want toget rid of him,

154. we'll keep him.

155. - Nice try, son.

156. That's nevergoing to happen.

157. - Ah, come on, dad.

158. - No. come on, let's go. Thanks, Dorothy.

159. - Bless you.

160. - Talk to you later.

161. Bye now.

162. - Have a good one.

163. - Hey, Ron, what's up?

164. - Temperature, taxes, blood pressure,

165. you name it.

166. - So, business lookslike it's booming.

167. - Whoever figuredout how to make coffee

168. a warm weather drink, is a genius.

169. - Or retire early, yeah. Thank you.

170. - Coffee black, bagel, plain.

171. - There you go.

172. - You are one boring, straight man, Ted.

173. - And why is that? Becausei like my coffee black?

174. - Look, the othernight your wife made a

175. tremendous gourmet meal.

176. - Yeah, she did, didn't she?

177. - As the evening'sentertainment,

178. you picked thejohn Wayne movie.

179. - So?

180. - Black and whitejohn Wayne movie, Ted.

181. - So what?

182. - Boring.

183. - All right.

184. What are you, acommunist or something?

185. You don't like John Wayne?

186. - Boring.

187. - Okay. But my wife thinksi'm very exciting.

188. She tells me thisall the time.

189. - She's lyingto you, Ted.

190. - Give that back.

191. - What do you mean, this?- Yes.

192. - This whole onedollar tip? No way.

193. I'm paying off mymortgage for this.

194. - Yeah, with myboring tip money.

195. - You're hopeless.Do you know that?

196. So, how are thekids enjoying the

197. summer vacation?

198. - Yeah. The realquestion is how is Lynn

199. enjoying thesummer vacation?

200. She's the one withthe kids and all.

201. - And the answer is?

202. - It's not fit forpublic establishment.

203. - Tell her isaid stay strong.

204. - Okay. I will.

205. - All right.

206. - Yeah, you too. Thanks, man.

207. - Yup.

208. - Talk to you later.

209. - Hello. How can I help you?

210. - Murphy residence.

211. Daddy, telephone.

212. - Who is it, son?

213. - Another mansaying bad words.

214. - All right. Give me the phone.

215. Hello?

216. Who is this?

217. No, no, you listen to me.

218. I don't know what you andyour buddies think you're

219. doing by calling myhouse at this hour.

220. What kind of grown manuses that kind of

221. language with a kid?

222. Yeah, same to you!

223. - Is that anotherobscene phone call?

224. - Yeah.

225. - That's threein the last two days.

226. - More than that. I've gottenthat many today alone.

227. - I don't know what's going on here,

228. but let's justdisconnect this thing.

229. We don't need a land line.

230. We all have cell phones.

231. - Okay. I'll call tomorrow.

232. - If I evercatch these people.

233. - Who do youthink is doing this?

234. - I don't know.

235. Kids, you go on andwatch TV or something.

236. I'm sorry.

237. - It's okay.

238. - Look, I don't reallyfeel comfortable with you

239. guys being here alonewithout me, okay?

240. So if you guys can come up to the store, we can find

241. something for them to do.

242. They can just foldt-shirts or something.

243. Bettina and Ashley arestill on vacation.

244. I need help with thesetwo big orders coming in,

245. so we can do that.

246. - Are you that worriedabout these phone calls?

247. - Yeah, I really am.

248. I don't know what we'redealing with here.

249. I just feel comfortablewith you guys close by.

250. - Okay. The kids likeit there anyway.

251. It's okay.

252. - I love you.

253. - Hey, hon, I'm goingto run next door

254. to get some coffee.You want one?

255. - No, I'm good.

256. - I want something. Can I get a smoothie?

257. - Yeah, me, too?

258. - No. we're going Togo get lunch soon.

259. You'll spoilyour appetites.

260. - But we're thirsty.

261. - There's plenty ofwater in the refrigerator.

262. - Hey, Ron, what's up?

263. - Come over here.

264. - Okay.

265. What's up? What's going on?

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

267. - Yeah.

268. - This is the equality today,

269. one of the city'sgay newspapers.

270. - Okay. So when isa newspaper gay?

271. Is it having a crusho the tribun or...?

272. - Look.

273. - Okay.

274. This is my name and myhome and store address?

275. - That's right, genius.

276. - What is this?

277. - Did you sign theanti-gay marriage petition?

278. - No. I've never signedanything anti-gay.

279. - Well, you musthave signed something.

280. I mean they just didn't pullyour name out of thin air.

281. - Well, I signedsomething last month,

282. but it was a petition fortraditional marriage.

283. - The anti-gaymarriage petition.

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

285. - Look, I know what you believe.

286. I mean we've beendown that road,

287. we've had those arguments, but it's one thing to

288. argue over theoreticalstuff and another

289. to do this to me.

290. - Do what to you?

291. I signed thisstupid petition.

292. It doesn't mean a thing.

293. - It meanssomething to me, Ted.

294. You've come to my house.

295. I've been over to yourhome countless times

296. and for you to stab mein the heart like this—

297. - stab you in the heart?I don't even know why—

298. why are you soupset about this?

299. - By signing thispetition you're saying

300. that I am not allowedto get married.

301. Isn't that right?

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

303. - look, Ted, you comein here day after day

304. and you act like youthink I'm a human being.

305. But when it comesright down—

306. - no. that is not fair!

307. - When it comesright down to it,

308. you don't think i'mhuman being enough

309. to be married, am I?

310. Think about that the nexttime you want a plain bagel.

311. Keep the paper.

312. - Where are you going?

313. Come on, man, come backand let's just talk.

314. - Well, that explainsthe calls.

315. - What calls?

316. - The obscene calls.

317. - What is this?

318. - Obviously, it's a gay paper.

319. These people are againstthis petition for

320. traditional marriage, and we talked about

321. it in the church.- And?

322. - And the gayorganizations in here,

323. I mean they got the namesand addresses of everybody

324. that signed it. I mean, it's in the paper.

325. It's probablyonline by now.

326. - What does it have to do with us?

327. - I signed this.

328. - You did what? When?

329. - A month ago.

330. Do you remember whenyou took Alyssa

331. to get a bathing suit?

332. I signed it on theway to the bookstore

333. with the other kids.

334. - And they put your name on the papers

335. for doing that?

336. - Yes.

337. The paper is encouragingthese gay activists to

338. boycott businessowners who signed it.

339. - How did youever find this?

340. - Ron. he showed it to me.

341. I mean he's tickedoff, really.

342. - At you?- Yes.

343. Yes, for signing it.

344. I mean he chewed me outat the coffee shop

345. in front of everyone, thecustomer, the employees.

346. - Did you explain tohim it wasn't personal?

347. - Yes, I did.

348. I mean he's taking itpersonal, real personal.

349. - Oh, poor Ron.

350. - Poor Ron? Lynn, myname is in this paper.

351. - It's gonna be okay. What can the activists do?

352. - I don't know. They can call.

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

354. - Ted, how many gay customersdo you think we have?

355. - One. I know of one.

356. - Okay. Go talk to ronwhen he cools off.

357. - Forget it. I didn't doanything wrong here. Okay?

358. He got up in my case sohe needs to come here

359. and make it right.

360. - We've been friendswith him for years.

361. Go get a cup of coffee. Go talk to him.

362. - Oh, so his employeescan spit in my coffee,

363. Lynn, no. Just count me out.

364. - Ted, that'sstubborn pride.

365. - I guess it is.

366. - I'm going to gocheck on the kids.

367. - The Miller'sgot a new swing set.

368. - You know, I just—

369. I don't know how weare going to make it.

370. - Honey, I knowit's been tough.

371. We still have a fewcontracts left to fill.

372. It will be tight, but ithink it's a good summer.

373. We'll get through.

374. - I hope so. We'rebehind on rent.

375. We still owe a bunch.

376. - Yeah, I know.

377. - Daddy?

378. - Yeah, hold on.

379. Summer is alwayslike this.

380. We still have a weekleft before the softball

381. tournament shirt to do, andthen we're going to start

382. on the school shirtsto get those done.

383. Tina and her sister, they're back from vacation

384. today so they'llbe able to help us.

385. I promise, everything'sgoing to be done on time.

386. - I know you're right, but I just get nervous.

387. - Daddy?

388. - What?

389. - Look.

390. - That's just great.

391. - What does that mean, what they wrote?

392. What's a bigot?

393. - It means when oneperson is mean to somebody

394. because of who they are.

395. A bigot hates a particulargroup of people.

396. - Why did theycall daddy a bigot?

397. - We believe thatmarriage should be between

398. one man and one woman.

399. Dad signed a petitionsaying that and someone

400. found out and hedid not like it.

401. - And because of that theywrote on our window?

402. - Looks that way.

403. - Why don't you go insideand get that box of

404. razor blades, you know, the other ones that

405. we used to scrapepaint off the floor.

406. - Yeah.

407. - I think it's abouttime we get that

408. paint off our window.

409. Hey, girls, why don't youtake the little ones in,

410. too, okay?

411. Okay.

412. Hey.

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

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

415. - Are you and the kids okay?

416. - Yeah. We're okay.- Yeah, yeah.

417. - Hey, you know he didn'tmean to hurt your feelings

418. by signing thatpetition. Right?

419. I mean, he told meabout your argument.

420. I told him justto go talk to you.

421. But he's proud.

422. You guys need tostraighten this out. Okay?

423. I gotta go.

424. - Bye, Lynn.

425. - Hah, I'll buy it.

426. - Another monopoly? You're going to kill us.

427. - She already has park place.

428. If she gets boardwalk, we are toast.

429. - Bethany, we just don'twant you to be greedy.

430. - Who do you think ishelping me win?

431. - My turn.

432. - Hey, Lynn?

433. - Huh?

434. - What is it?

435. - Vandalism at the storemade the newspaper web site,

436. a little photo hereand short story.

437. - What does it say?

438. - It just sayswhat happened.

439. I mean, they quote me assaying that vandalism is

440. probably from the marriagepetition, and they're

441. quoting some guy namedvincente ramos from the

442. clairmont pride, some gaylesbian activist group,

443. and he's saying, "theclairmont pride abhors

444. criminal behavior but bigotryshouldn't be tolerated."

445. - What does that mean?

446. - I guess he's sayingthat what the vandal did

447. was wrong, but i'malso wrong for

448. signing the petition.

449. - No—yeah,i get that.

450. The signing the marriagepetition is bigotry but—

451. - what don't you understand?

452. - What does he meanby signing the petition

453. should never be tolerated?

454. I mean, is that a threat?

455. - No. let's hope not.

456. - Whoever gets here wins.

457. - Okay. Doubles.

458. - Okay. That's fine.

459. We'll just talk ina few minutes.

460. It's okay.

461. Yeah! Whoa!

462. - This is illegal, right?

463. This isn't a publicright of way.

464. They're hinderingour business.

465. - Honey, ordinarilyyou'd be right.

466. But I just talkedto this cop.

467. He spoke with the ownerof the property

468. and he okayed the protest.

469. - Mr. Goodman? I don't believe it.

470. That's ludicrous. We're a lawful tenant.

471. - I know, honey. Italked to him, too.

472. He just doesn't want totangle with these people.

473. He doesn't want tohave them removed

474. from the property.

475. So he just said justignore them and they'll

476. eventually go away.

477. - Hey, look, we're going tobe in the newspaper again.

478. - No, no, honey, that'snot the newspaper,

479. that's the TV station Van.

480. Yeah, that's great.

481. - No, I know sweetie. Don't worry about it.

482. It's okay.

483. I understand, okay?

484. No, I know.

485. I know, I know.

486. Uh-huh.

487. Right.

488. You should listento your parents.

489. I completely understand.

490. Okay?

491. Okay. All right, you too, honey.

492. Bye-bye.

493. - What?

494. - That was Tina. Her and her sister

495. told their parentsabout the protest today

496. and they don't want themcoming back to the store.

497. They said they're sorrythat they can't give their

498. two weeks but theirparents are afraid

499. for their safety.

500. - Yeah. Well, I can'tsay I blame them.

501. You gonna be okay?

502. - I don't know.

503. How are we gonnaget all those orders

504. done without them?

505. They've been working forus for two summers now.

506. They're going to beharder to replace.

507. - I know. We'll be okay.

508. - Daddy, the news is on.

509. - Oh come on. Come on.

510. My interview's up.I finally get to share

511. my side of the story.

512. Here we go.

513. Okay. Turn up. Turn up.

514. - Mr. Murphy, do you regretsigning that petition?

515. I mean, clearly you cansee what hurt it's caused

516. the gay and lesbiancommunity in clairmont.

517. - Look, I didn't mean tohurt anybody. Okay?

518. I just signed a petitionto express my beliefs

519. about traditionalmarriage.

520. - But denying gaysand lesbians the

521. right to marriage? Well, that's not...

522. - Okay. I saidmore than that.

523. - ... the protestorsfrom clairmont pride.

524. - How am I hurtingmr. Murphy and his family?

525. My girlfriend and ihave been together

526. for 10 years.

527. We're hard working people, we pay our taxes,

528. we're not hurtinganyone else.

529. How could people beso cruel to deny us

530. the right to marry?

531. - Can you believe this? Oh, great.

532. - I'm here with vincenteramos, director of

533. clairmont pride. Now, vincente, tell me,

534. what are your reasonsfor this protest today?

535. - The kind of hatred andbigotry demonstrated

536. by the Murphy—

537. - "hatred and bigotry"?

538. —Should not beallowed in clairmont.

539. And they havechildren in there.

540. What are theyteaching them?

541. - How long areyou planning on

542. holding this protest.

543. - Every day duringbusiness hours,

544. until Ted Murphy publiclyapologizes to the

545. gay and lesbian community. Then he—

546. - not gonna happen.

547. - Reporting to you livefrom Ted's t's.

548. I'm arcadiavargas, kqvs news.

549. - You said that'sour side of the story?

550. - I spoke with thiswoman for 20 minutes.

551. I gave her all my reasonsfor why I believe marriage

552. is between aman and a woman.

553. - Yeah. Apparently, shewasn't interested.

554. - No, apparently.

555. - What do we want?

556. marriage equality.

557. - When do we want it? Now.

558. - What do we want?

559. marriage equality.

560. - When do we want it? Now.

561. - Hello.

562. Ted's t's.

563. Yeah, this is t.

564. No, no, I don'thave any comments.

565. I'm sorry.

566. Okay.

567. Ted's t's.

568. This is Ted Murphy.

569. As I said before, my comment is that

570. I don't have acomment. Okay?

571. That's enough.

572. I'm sorry.

573. Hey.

574. - Hey.

575. - Well, the protest hasbeen going on for days.

576. I'm surprised they haven'tpicketed at our house.

577. - Yeah, small mercies.

578. - Yeah.

579. Did you see what they saidabout us in the paper?

580. - Yes, Ted, I did.

581. - That we're the symbol ofbigotry in the community.

582. Are you down with that?

583. And we should be shunnedbecause we need to see

584. the light or are shunneduntil we actually

585. go out of business.

586. They're saying that we'repariahs and this one says

587. we're no betterthan a fungus?

588. Lynn, come on.

589. Really?

590. A fungus? A pariah?

591. I mean, the TV crew istreating us like a carnival.

592. Step right up and see thefamily of bigots because

593. they believe thatmarriage is between

594. a man and a woman.

595. So, did you get thet-shirts folded?

596. - Huh-uh.

597. - Are you close?

598. - It doesn't matter.

599. Mr. Livingston just calledme on my cell phone.

600. They're cancelingtheir orders.

601. - The school canceled?

602. We've been doing theirband t-shirts

603. for eight years now.

604. - Oh, no, not justthe band t-shirts,

605. the booster club, the p.E.,

606. the senior class t-shirts, the beta club,

607. even the chess club. They all canceled.

608. - That's great. All of them, they all canceled.

609. - Mr. Livingston saidthey got a couple of

610. calls from schoolboard members.

611. They said that they sawthe coverage on the

612. local news, read thestuff in the newspapers.

613. He said he's sorry butthe pressure is building.

614. - The pressure.

615. He doesn't know whatpressure is, this guy.

616. I mean, we haven't hadwalk-in traffic since the

617. tolerance people areno longer tolerant

618. of us anymore.

619. We lost the park and recaccounts and three

620. businesses that arebuying t-shirts from us

621. for years. Two familyreunions and we lost

622. the church, Lynn, a church.

623. - Well, it's was anepiscopal church.

624. - Yeah, but still.

625. - Well, onthe other hand,

626. we picked up theconservative anglican

627. church down the street,

628. and they have aconference in September.

629. They thought we coulduse the business.

630. - If we're in businessuntil September.

631. - Come on in back.

632. - Why?

633. - Just come on.

634. - Why?

635. - The kids havesomething for you.

636. - Okay.

637. And stay here and let thestore stay open for the

638. barbarians to loot?

639. - Let's be frank.

640. No one's buyinganything today.

641. - Great. I feelbetter already.

642. All right.

643. - Come on.

644. - I have work to do. Wehave orders to fill.

645. - I know.

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

647. - And people out in theparking lot protesting.

648. - Yeah.

649. - What?

650. - Surprise!

651. - That's great.

652. Thank you so much.

653. - Bethany wanted it tosay "the world's

654. greatest bigot".

655. - Yeah. I don't think shereally understood

656. what that meant.

657. - Let's hopenot, right?

658. - Well, I didn'tknow it was bad.

659. - The world'sgreatest bigot.

660. - Oh, yeah, like you knewwhat it meant, right?

661. - Okay, that's enough.

662. - This is soawesome guys.

663. I can't thank you enough.

664. Look at this. It's great!

665. I'm so crazyabout you guys.

666. Thank you.

667. - Hey.

668. - Hey.

669. - Yay, smoothie!

670. - Okay, I've got two coffees.One dark and boring.

671. Yes.

672. A caramel mocha.

673. - Thank you.

674. - A strawberrysmoothie for Alyssa.

675. A chocolate smoothiefor Bethany,

676. and a chocolate for Teddy.

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

678. - You're welcome.

679. - Yeah, thanks Mr. Ron.

680. - Thanks, Ron.

681. - You're sweet, Ron.

682. All right, kids, come on.

683. Get your drinks, let's go out front.

684. Let daddy andmr. Ron talk.

685. - Bye, Mr. Ron.

686. - Bye.

687. - Since when do youcome in the side door?

688. - Well, since youstarted having a mob

689. at the front door.

690. - Yeah. It's annoying.

691. - Yeah. Did you make thist-shirt for yourself?

692. - No. my kids made it for me.

693. - Is that right?

694. - That's right.

695. - Sure, they did.

696. How have you guysbeen hanging in?

697. - Lousy.

698. What else can I say?I just found out I lost a

699. couple of big contracts.

700. - Ted, I'm so sorry.

701. - Yeah, well, thanks.

702. I mean, it wasn't likewe were doing great before

703. this all happenedanyway, you know.

704. - Yeah.

705. - Thanks for the coffee.

706. - Yeah. But don'tget me wrong.

707. I still hate youfor what you did.

708. But we've been friends for a long time and with a

709. protest and all, I juststarted getting worried

710. about Lynn and the kids, and you.

711. - Thanks, buddy.

712. I'm sorry I hurt you over this too.

713. - Well, there's no easyway out of these conflicts

714. for any of us, is there?

715. - I guess not.

716. - And untilfurther notice,

717. the coffee and thesmoothies are on the

718. house, okay?

719. - And the t-shirtfor you as well.

720. Actually, I probablyhave a bunch of them

721. available shortly.

722. - My...

723. You do have a dark senseof humor, don't you?

724. - You know me, dark and boring.

725. - Yeah.

726. - Hi.

727. - I'm here tosee Mr. Goodman.

728. - What's your name?

729. - Vincente ramos fromclairmont pride.

730. - Okay. Just one second.

731. - Yes.

732. - Mr. vincente ramos fromclairmont pride

733. is here to see you.

734. - Send him right in.

735. - Yeah. Okay.

736. Thanks. All right.

737. You go right down the hallway.

738. - Thank you.

739. - You're welcome.

740. - How can ihelp you, Vince?

741. - Well, Paul, it's aboutyour tenant Ted Murphy.

742. I assume you're aware ofwhat's happening at his store.

743. - Yes, I'm aware of it.

744. - At clairmont pride wedon't feel there's any place

745. in our city for the kind ofbigotry expressed by Ted Murphy.

746. - I couldn't agreewith you more, Vince.

747. I'm a firm believer infairness and equality.

748. - Well, that'sgood to know.

749. It is the 21 st century.

750. The city of clairmont needsmen to be on board and take

751. a lead in these matters.

752. - Unfortunately in thiscase I can't help you.

753. Ted and Lynn Murphy are mylegal tenants and they have

754. a rental contract.

755. - And how are theydoing at that location?

756. Business wise I mean.

757. - I think they'redoing pretty well.

758. I mean, they're like mostpeople in this economy.

759. They struggle.

760. And as for me if I lose themas tenants, that building

761. sits empty.

762. - Of course not.

763. I wouldn't wantthat to happen.

764. I certainly wouldn't want myprotests to hurt you in any

765. kind of way, Paul.

766. - But if your protestsput the Murphys out of

767. business, and that seems tobe your goal, that's going

768. to hurt my realty business.

769. - And that's part of thereason why I'm here today.

770. See, this protest has caughtthe attention of a lot of

771. folks in the gay community.

772. Even outside of clairmont.

773. - And?

774. - And donation to seeclairmont pride have

775. increased as a result, and iwanted to let you know that

776. we are consideringchanging our location.

777. - Is that so?

778. - And my board and I feelthat your property meaning

779. the store where the murphysare currently doing business

780. would be a perfect spot.

781. - It's a prime spot, that's for sure.

782. - And if went would happento go up a little beyond

783. what you're currentlycharging, that would not be

784. a deal breaker whatsoever.

785. - Hmm.

786. - Inflation and all.

787. - Yes.

788. - I got to say thatputs my mind at ease.

789. I mean, I was worried aboutthat property sitting vacant.

790. - And that's why I thoughta good face-to-face meeting

791. would be helpful.

792. - Did you make these?

793. - No. Dorothy brought them by.

794. - That was sweet of her.

795. It's nice that the ladiesbrought over supper.

796. - Yeah, a few of the ladiesfrom Sunday school said they

797. would bring over dinnerevery night this week, but I

798. told them that we were okay.

799. - Are we?

800. - Well, food isreally not the problem.

801. If they could buy six monthsof tee shirt orders it may

802. make a difference.

803. - Yeah.

804. - Did you getback to pastor?

805. - Yeah. I called him back and hesaid everybody is concerned

806. and they're prayingfor us and blah, blah.

807. - Ted, that's awful.

808. - That's how ifeel right now.

809. I'm being pounded intothe concrete, Lynn.

810. And I want toknow where is god.

811. Where is he?

812. Do we have some kind ofsecret sin in our lives here?

813. - Ted, don't be like that.

814. - How should I be then?

815. I didn't ask pourany of this, okay.

816. I don't want to bea culture warrior.

817. I'm not a hero.

818. I just signed a stupidpetition, a fluke, a whim.

819. - But you believed in thatpetition, that marriage is

820. between one manand one woman.

821. - Yeah, but I didn't want to go to war over it.

822. I just want my family.

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

824. - Yeah, well sometimes lifecrashes into our own

825. little world Ted.

826. - Okay.

827. I'll just tell that to mr. Goodman when he comes to

828. collect three months rent.

829. - Have you talked to him?

830. - Yes. a few minutesago on the phone.

831. He's coming by thestore after we close.

832. - What are yougoing to tell him?

833. - Oh, I'm going to tell himthat the church is praying

834. for us and everythingis going to be okay.

835. - Ted, don't saythings like that.

836. - Okay. Fine.

837. How about I tell ourlandlord that Mr. Goodman,

838. I don't have threemonths rent.

839. I don't have that.

840. And we're going toprobably lose our store.

841. Sorry.

842. It will be okay.

843. - Everybody is here to showthese haters we're not going

844. to stand for their bigotry.

845. - Will you look at her?

846. Pretending to be someobjective reporter

847. chasing after a story.

848. - What are you going to do?

849. You told her our views lastweek and she didn't care.

850. - Well, it isn't rightand it's not fair.

851. - What's thatold expression?

852. The power of the pressbelongs to those who have one.

853. - Yeah?

854. Well, I still have a rightto complain, don't I?

855. And that's whati'm going to do.

856. - Clairmont pride is hereto show these haters we're

857. not going to standfor their bigotry.

858. We want them out of here.

859. We're not going to take it.

860. - Mr. Murphy? Over here.Mr. Murphy.

861. Hello, Mr. Murphy.

862. How are you today?

863. - Well, I'm actuallya little frustrated.

864. Okay. My wife and I we watchedthis news feature on the

865. protest last week and youdidn't include any of the

866. reasons I gave fortraditional marriage.

867. And I think what youaired is not fair.

868. - Okay. I see.

869. And what didn't youthink was fair about it?

870. - I spent 20 minutes ormore with you in the store.

871. And you didn't includeanything that I said about

872. traditional marriage.

873. - Oh. okay.

874. But that's not what thestory was about, Ted.

875. - What do you mean?

876. - The story wasn't aboutwhy you oppose gay marriage

877. but about thefact that you do.

878. I mean, you're the one thatsigned the petition and it

879. upset the gay communityhere in clairmont.

880. That was the story.

881. - Okay.

882. Let me get this straight.

883. All that matters is thehomosexual community got its

884. feelings hurt and i'mautomatically the bad guy?

885. - Whoa. Whoa.

886. I didn't say youwere the bad guy.

887. - Well, you had the headof clairmont pride come out

888. here and say that i'mdemonstrating hatred and

889. bigotry because I supporttraditional marriage?

890. And then you say you havetwo lesbians say that I was

891. cruel to them.

892. Do you honestly think thatthis kind of reporting is

893. not going to make meout to be a bad guy

894. for your viewers?

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

896. - Last time I checked thisis still America here, and I

897. can believe what I want.

898. - Your hatred andtolerance is not American.

899. And we do not welcomeit in our community.

900. - Okay. Why does itautomatically have to be hatred

901. and intolerance, Vince?

902. Is that because youdisagree with me?

903. - It's hatred andintolerance because we say so.

904. - Who's we?

905. - Society. Well, at least theloving and tolerant.

906. - The loving and tolerantthat agree with you, right?

907. - We're not hereto debate this, Ted.

908. We determine what isacceptable in our community.

909. Not a bigot like you.

910. - Okay.

911. - What you need to do ispublicly apologize for your

912. outdated views andembrace the change.

913. Or lose your business.

914. Those are your options.

915. - Are you telling me thatwhat I did was wrong?

916. Signing a petition about mybeliefs about traditional

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

918. - Yeah. Exactly.

919. You can't have hateand your business, too.

920. - That is my business.

921. And you don't go aftersome guy and his family.

922. You don't go after themto hurt them, Vince.

923. - I don't give a flipabout your litter.

924. Hater!

925. - Yeah. I know you don't.

926. - Hate! hate!

927. We hate hate!

928. We hate hate!

929. We hate hate!

930. We hate hate!

931. We hate hate!

932. We hate hate!

933. We hate hate!

934. - Lynn?

935. Hi. yes?

936. Can I help you?

937. - Ted Murphy, right?

938. - Yeah. Is there somethingi can do for you?

939. - I'm reverendgreg blanchett.

940. I'm Dorothy blanchett's son.

941. - Oh. hey, reverend.

942. Come on in.

943. - How are you?

944. - I'm great.

945. - Nice to meet you.

946. - Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much.

947. Here, please.

948. Please have a seat.

949. - Thank you, Ted.

950. - Can I get yousomething to drink?

951. - No, thank you. I'm fine.

952. - Sure?

953. - Yeah.

954. - Thanks for coming over.

955. - Nice home.

956. - Oh, thank you.

957. It's all my wife Lynn. She's good at that.

958. Well, we adore your mother.

959. She's something else.

960. - Thank you. Thank you.

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

962. - Thank you.

963. So what can I do for you?

964. - Well, I know who youare and what you're going

965. through, the protestsdown at the store.

966. - Oh, yeah. Those.

967. - Yeah. Well, I've seenyou on TV.

968. Came down toobserve one day.

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

970. - Well, I feellike I'm alone.

971. - Yeah. Well, you're not.

972. You have my support, that of my church, and we're behind you.

973. - Actually it's going tobe over pretty soon anyway.

974. - Oh really?

975. You're going to callthe protests off?

976. - No. it's just theopposite really.

977. The protesters are going toaccomplish their goal, and I

978. don't think our businessis going to survive.

979. - Oh. I see.

980. I'm sorry, Ted.

981. This has got to beheartbreaking for you.

982. - Yeah. It does.

983. You know, my wife and I havebuilding this business now

984. for the last severalyears from scratch.

985. And its just reallyhard to see it go away.

986. Lose it tosomething like this.

987. - Something like what?

988. - Well, the petition.

989. I signed a petition fortraditional marriage and it

990. was just an impulse on asunny day, and I don't

991. really see what good my littlesignature is going to do.

992. - Ted, because of theprotests everybody is

993. talking aboutthis issue now.

994. And that's a good thingbecause it gives us the

995. opportunity to tell thetruth about marriage.

996. And people will listenat a time like this.

997. Look, Ted, black folks inthis country we know

998. about bigotry.

999. And we're tired ofchristians being called

1000. bigots because theybelieve in the Bible.

1001. It's time we took a firmstand and told the world we

1002. won't be moved.

1003. I recommend going onthe offensive, speaking out.

1004. - How?

1005. I mean, what do you mean?

1006. - We've scheduled a rally.

1007. Our church will be there.

1008. Many supporters.

1009. - Wow. I guess that'sa great idea.

1010. - You like that?

1011. - How do I fit into this?

1012. - Good. We want you to be thekey note speaker, Ted.

1013. Can you be bold enoughto do that, Ted?

1014. - No. look, I don'tpublic speak.

1015. - We'll be with you.

1016. Standing right there.

1017. - Look, reverend, with alldue respect I'm losing my

1018. business on this issue and idon't have it in my mind to

1019. ever speak about it againlet alone speak at a rally.

1020. - I think that would be amistake because this is more

1021. than just about you.

1022. It's more aboutdefining marriage.

1023. It's about ourreligious freedom, Ted.

1024. That's what's at stake here, to have the freedom to speak

1025. the truth withoutthreats or harassment.

1026. - Yeah. I don't know.

1027. - For some reason thistrail has found its way to

1028. you, and I believethere's a reason for it.

1029. - Yeah.

1030. - Yeah.

1031. - You know what?

1032. I don't see it that way.

1033. I see a wrong guy in thewrong place at the wrong time.

1034. That's how I look at it.

1035. - Ted, if you believe thatgod oversees our lives you

1036. can't look at this like afluke, like the wind blew

1037. you to the left when itshould have blown to the right.

1038. - I don't know what ibelieve anymore, and I'm

1039. really not sure what i'msupposed to be doing right now.

1040. - Where are lynnand the kids?

1041. - Out for pizza.

1042. - How come youdidn't go with them?

1043. You probably needed a nightout just as much as they did.

1044. - I did.

1045. I just had a lostpaperwork to finish up.

1046. And Mr. Goodman isgoing to come by.

1047. - Oh?

1048. - Yeah. Ron, we're behind and hewants to talk about it.

1049. - You think he'llcut you some slack?

1050. - No. we're a hemorrhagingbusiness and he wants his

1051. money, and I don't have it.

1052. - So what areyou going to do?

1053. - I don't know.

1054. What can I do?

1055. I just know that theseprotesters they're not going

1056. to change my mind bydestroying my business.

1057. - So you're not evenwilling to rethink your

1058. position on samesex marriage?

1059. Maybe it's timeto reconsider.

1060. - Do you really thinkit's about gay marriage?

1061. - You think this isabout something else?

1062. - Yes, I do.

1063. This whole debate is not justabout personal preference.

1064. I don't oppose homosexualmarriage because I'm cranky.

1065. - I know. You're a biblethumper, Ted.

1066. - I am not a Bible thumper.

1067. Do I believe thatthe Bible is true? Yes.

1068. Do I believe that mankindis male and female sexually

1069. compatible genders?

1070. Yes, that's what I believe.

1071. And I also believe thatmarriage flows from that

1072. sexual reality.

1073. Those are my beliefs, Ron.

1074. - This isn't about justwhat you believe, Ted.

1075. It's about what you did.

1076. - Signing a lousy petition?

1077. - Yeah. But signing thatpetition your pushing your

1078. views on the gay community.

1079. - No. you got that all wrong.

1080. We're not pushinganything on anybody.

1081. We didn't start this fight.

1082. The Christian view was herefirst if you remember that,

1083. and the nationwas built upon it.

1084. And they're trying toredefine marriage, Ron.

1085. And they're asking usto shut up about it.

1086. - Enough already!

1087. This endless debateisn't solving anything.

1088. - No, it's not.

1089. - I just don't want you tolose your business, Ted.

1090. - Yeah. I know.

1091. Looks like it's a littletoo late for that.

1092. - Hey, Paul.

1093. - Hey, Ron.

1094. - Hey, Paul.

1095. - Business is goinggood for you, huh?

1096. - Yeah. It's great.

1097. - Great.

1098. Well, guys, you allhave a good evening.

1099. Hey. hey.

1100. The Murphys they'regood people, Paul.

1101. Can you work with them?

1102. Try and keep them open?

1103. - I appreciate yourconcern for them.

1104. - Come on in, Paul.

1105. Thanks for coming in, Paul.

1106. You want to go sitin the back and talk?

1107. - No. I don't think this isgoing to talk very long.

1108. I just came by for therent per your contract.

1109. You know you're three monthspast due, and usually I let

1110. it slide until the schoolcontracts come in.

1111. - Yeah. Well, welost those, Paul.

1112. - So you don'thave the money?

1113. - This protest iskilling our business.

1114. - I don't see howthat's my problem.

1115. - If you would have allowedthe police to come remove

1116. these people from the front, these protests wouldn't have

1117. been on the local news.

1118. I would still havethose contracts.

1119. - Yes, but if you wouldn'thave stuck your nose where

1120. it didn't belong, therenever ever would have been

1121. any protests, Ted.

1122. See? we can go back and forthon this trying to assign

1123. blame, but in the endwhat's the point?

1124. There's only one matterthat concerns me.

1125. And I think you'veanswered that question.

1126. Have a nice evening.

1127. - Yeah.

1128. - Kids in bed?

1129. - Yeah.

1130. They're exhausted.

1131. - Yeah. Me, too.

1132. - So what didmr. Goodman say?

1133. - He wants his money.

1134. - No extensionsor anything?

1135. - The money is due and hewants it, and he wants it now.

1136. - That doesn't seem fair.

1137. - Yeah. Tell me about it.

1138. - He could have helped us.

1139. He allowed them to snuff outour business, and then he

1140. holds us accountable for nothaving any business left.

1141. - Yeah. He says it's my faultfor getting involved

1142. in the first place.

1143. I don't know.

1144. Maybe he just doesn't want to get involved himself in

1145. that kind of stuff.

1146. I can't say thati blame him.

1147. - What are wegoing to do, Ted?

1148. - I don't know what to do.

1149. I made a mistakesigning that petition.

1150. And it's going tocost us everything.

1151. Just one signature.

1152. I'm sorry.

1153. - Come on. Let's just goto bed, okay?

1154. - Okay.

1155. - Hey, Ron.

1156. - Vince.

1157. - Looks likebusiness is booming.

1158. - Yeah, I do pretty good.

1159. What can I get for you?

1160. - Cinnamon dolce latteand a cinnamon scone.

1161. - Cinnamon dolce latteand a cinnamon scone.

1162. I hear you have the troopsall stirred up over the

1163. tee shirt store.

1164. - Yeah.

1165. Things are goingpretty well, actually.

1166. - Finally startingto get to that bigot.

1167. - Look, Vince.

1168. I know you're the big rabblerouser in town, but I think

1169. trying to run out abusiness in wrong.

1170. - I disagree.

1171. The only way to actually getanything done is to know

1172. exactly what yourgoals are, Ron.

1173. You're a successfulbusiness owner.

1174. You should know that.

1175. You should join ourprotest for a while.

1176. - I have a businessto run, Vince.

1177. - Our protest has bumpedup your walk in traffic.

1178. Showing a little solidarityfor your community would

1179. probably do thesame for sure.

1180. - The murphysare my friends.

1181. I don't agree with tedsigning the petition and I

1182. told him so.

1183. But I would not doanything to hurt them

1184. or their business.

1185. - I have on pretty goodauthority that their

1186. business is notdoing so hot.

1187. Probably going tolose their store.

1188. When she do, clairmont prideoffices are going right into

1189. their store front.

1190. Imagine what that willdo for your business.

1191. I mean, an already likedestablishment owned and

1192. operated by a gay manright next to the

1193. gay pride center in town?

1194. You should probably rememberwhat side your bread

1195. gets buttered on.

1196. - Your order is ready, Vince.

1197. - Keep the change, Ron.

1198. - Hi there. How are you?

1199. - Good. Thanks for seeing me.

1200. - No problem. Did my soncome over to see you?

1201. He said he was going to tryto get over to your house.

1202. - Yes, he did. Yes, ma'am.

1203. - And are you goingto speak at the rally?

1204. - I don't know.

1205. - Well then, Ted, tell me what's on your mind.

1206. - Well, I tell you, dorothy, it's that photo of

1207. your dad and thatstory you told me.

1208. I just can't getit out of my head.

1209. - I don't understand.

1210. - I just I really want to know how black people

1211. endured slavery, jimcrow laws, the pannage.

1212. There's just so many peoplethat maintained their

1213. faith in god.

1214. How do you —how doyou do that, you know?

1215. Because I tell you, Dorothy,i'm not doing well right now.

1216. And I'm not reallysure what to do.

1217. - Well, not all of ushave done well, Ted.

1218. Some of us grewbitter over the years.

1219. And I've hadhard times, too.

1220. Do you think I've neverstruggled with bitterness

1221. against white folk?

1222. I never grew up with my dad.

1223. He never held me, brushedaway my tears or encouraged

1224. me to succeed in life.

1225. I know about Jim crow law.

1226. I remember that I could notgo and sit in a restaurant,

1227. that I could not go to amovie theater and see a

1228. movie and sit bya white person.

1229. - Yes, ma'am.

1230. - And many times I canremember what I was called —

1231. you know whati was called.

1232. - Yeah. Yes, ma'am. I sure do.

1233. - And I'm sure gay peoplehave suffered, too.

1234. I don't deny that.

1235. Hatred and bigotryis a terrible thing.

1236. But I get tired of hearingabout how gay is the new black.

1237. Now as a black Christian i'malso being called a bigot.

1238. Because of what I believeabout marriage I'm the bad guy.

1239. And after all these years westill have to fight for our

1240. religious Liberty.

1241. - What do you mean?

1242. - You're the one beingdriven out of business, Ted.

1243. Being told to get out.

1244. That you're not wantedsimply for being

1245. a faithful Christian.

1246. - I never thoughtof it that way.

1247. - So any question is whatare you going to do about it?

1248. - I don't know.

1249. - Just a minute.

1250. I want to giveyou something.

1251. I want you to keepthis for a while.

1252. - Okay. I don't understand.

1253. - Some people don't everget a chance to fight back.

1254. And I want youto remember that.

1255. - Thank you. I will.

1256. - Thank you.

1257. You know, our nation wasborn in fiery trial, and our

1258. founding fathers theypledged their lives and

1259. their fortunes and theirsacred honor to

1260. establish this country

1261. as it states in thedeclaration of independence.

1262. So I signed a petitionfor traditional marriage.

1263. That act was an expressionof my first amendment rights

1264. under the constitutionof this country.

1265. And what I want to knowis when did it become

1266. reprehensible in thiscountry, in America to stand

1267. up for what you believe in?

1268. The people screaming theloudest and demanding

1269. tolerance are the leastlikely to extend it

1270. to somebody else.

1271. They called me a bigot, apariah because I believe that

1272. marriage is the joining of two distinct genders

1273. into one flesh.

1274. Over our nation's history a lot of brave men and women

1275. they've died to give me theright to speak my peace as I

1276. do so tonight, to freelypractice my religion.

1277. And I don't intend to letthem down by surrendering

1278. those rights nomatter what the cost.

1279. I will never ever againhesitate to stand for the

1280. truth, and I hopethat you don't either.

1281. Thank you.

1282. - Daddy, look.

1283. Can I sign?

1284. - You are not old enough.

1285. - Are you going to sign?