BEN IN PORTLAND (01 April 2013): I heard one of your callers earlier discuss the judicial court judge’s rights to approve same sex marriage. Is that something you’re in support of or was that just a caller letting off steam?
REV. AL SHARPTON: I say that I do not think that the ah the D.O.M.A. and the laws that give judges the authority to decide marriage, I do not agree with that. I think that even people that, let me put it this way, even if people want to take away women’s right to choose, though I would advise my daughters never to ah ah get rid of a child, I don’t think I’d have a right to make a law about that. I don’t think we have the right to have the law determine marriage. What I do in my church, who I would marry, is my business. Just like I don’t want the state running the church I don’t think the church ought to run the state.