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News with Katie Couric hosted the daughters of former President Lyndon B. Johnson to discuss
their father's legacy of "social justice" as the 50th anniversary of
his Civil Rights Act of 1964 approaches. Couric got straight to the point by
reading a quote equating homosexual rights with the civil rights issue of the
60s and wanted to know what their father would think of the association.
Johnson's two daughters, Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Bird Johnson Robb,
responded:
Johnson: It’s a great civil rights concern of our
day. We are prevented from [the] most important union of marriage simply
because of who you love and that is a great tragedy from my own perspective.
Couric: Do you think your dad would have supported
the notion of gay marriage?
Robb: I just can't, you know, it's hard to project
what daddy would have thought about that because that wasn't an issue that had
come upon the stage at that time, but I know he really wanted everybody to be
able to live up to the best that God gave them.
Johnson: And social justice was terribly important to
Lyndon Johnson -- across the board.
Robb: Absolutely.
Couric: What about for you all? How important is gay
marriage to the two of you?
Robb: Well, we all have friends who are gay.
Obviously heterosexuals have divorce and have problems in their lives and I
can't say that we are all perfect and I certainly think that if God made you a
homosexual, that you should have love and affection with somebody. And I would
not want to deny anybody that opportunity to be happy.
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