Phil Bredesen on Civil Rights Democratic TN Governor

Disallow withholding services to same-sex couples

Marsha Blackburn (R): Yes. "People of faith should be free to practice their beliefs."

Phil Bredesen (D): No. Gay people should not be subjected to indignities when seeking goods and services in an open market.

The great stain on our dream has been racism

The great stain on our dream in my lifetime has been racism. And yet, just when we seem stuck as a people, just when we seem unable to ever start clearing that stain, along comes a Martin Luther King. Along come all those who worked with him, along come all those who followed him. And he taught us. And the world changed.

What Martin Luther King taught me--what he taught me by his living, by his dying, by the vigor and persistence of his vision--what he taught me was that America is a land that is still young, a land that is still new, a land that still harbors undiscovered shores. A land where we, with God's help, can indeed be reborn.