Eliot Spitzer, Richard Socarides And Wayne Besen Discuss Potential SCOTUS Marriage Case: VIDEO

Former Bill Clinton advisor Richard Socarides and journo-activist Wayne Besen appeared on Eliot Spizter's Current show last night to discuss the progress marriage equality has made in various courts across the country.

Watch their conversation about the judicial changes and a potential for a Supreme Court decision, including how Chief Justice Roberts will rule, AFTER THE JUMP.

ExxonMobil Needs to Step Up and Protect Its LGBT Employees: VIDEO

Freedom to World President Tico Almeida talks to Eliot Spitzer on Viewpoint about the NAACP's endorsement of marriage equality and a campaign targeting Exxon Mobil for its lack of corporate policies to protect LGBT employees from discrimination.

Says Almeida: "They are decades behind in adopting the principles of corporate leadership that so many Fortune 500 companies have already adopted because it's the right thing to do for business."

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Freedom to Work Founder Tico Almeida Has 'Sliver of Hope' That Obama Will Sign LGBT Non-Discrimination Order: VIDEO

Freedom to Work President Tico Almeida returned to Viewpoint with Eliot Spitzer late last week to discuss Obama's refusal to sign an executive order banning LGBT discrimination in the workplace.

Almeida said that the White House was not happy with his appearance two weeks ago on Spitzer's show in which he discussed the meeting where it was announced that Obama would not sign the order.

Almeida said that he had a follow-up meeting with White House aides at a Starbucks and still has a "sliver of hope" that the executive order will get signed.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Jim McGreevey and Eliot Spitzer Discuss NY's Marriage Equality Decision and the Future of Gay Rights: VIDEO

Former NJ Governor Jim McGreevey appeared on CNN's In the Arena with former NY Governor Eliot Spitzer (both, interestingly, resigned amid sex scandals) last night and discussed the NY marriage equality victory and whether it is a sign that the tide has turned on gay rights in America. He also discussed politicians whose positions are lagging on the issue:

"I think 10 years ago what Gov. Christie said was the norm by Democrats and Republicans and I think that will change," McGreevey said. "I think Gov. Christie, or whoever's governor across this nation, they will catch up with the decency of the American public."

And of President Obama, the former governor stated in a reference to the first lady, "If only he would listen to Michelle more often." The president stopped short of using the term "marriage" while endorsing equal rights for same-sex couples at a fundraiser late Thursday, but affirmed, "I believe that gay couples deserve the same legal rights as every couple in this country."

Now that the state of New York has legalized same-sex marriage, McGreevey admitted that he, too, is tempted to get married - but will wait until it is legal in his home state.

It was unclear whether McGreevey knows something about Michelle Obama and same-sex marriage that the general public doesn't, but she has never publicly come out for it.

McGreevey also addressed shame, something that drove him to closet himself for years, and notes how it is lacking in the younger generation, a fact which will propel equality. McGreevey, currently a divinity school student studying to be an Episcopal priest, also discussed how religious bigots manipulate the Bible to perpetuate homophobia.

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

Watch: Phoenix Suns President Rick Welts Talks About Coming Out

Phoenix Suns President talks to Eliot Spitzer about the support he has received since coming out publicly in the New York Times over the weekend.

Spitzer asks Welts if he can name other gay men in the sports world.

"No. Because in the four years that I have been in sports, no one has ever asked me, and I have never asked anyone."

Watch their interview, AFTER THE JUMP...

Eliot Spitzer Talks 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell', Gay Marriage, and Obama

During a lengthy and frank interview with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer about Wall Street, corporations, his dalliances with prostitutes, his new CNN show, and the recent election, Kevin Sessums also brings up gay rights.

As you may recall Spitzer introduced a marriage equality bill in the months before he was forced to step down over his escort scandal.

Sessums asks Spitzer about DADT, marriage equality, and Obama:

Q:On another legal matter, do you agree with Obama that he had no choice as president defending the law of Congress to appeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell ruling that said it was unconstitutional? Or do you agree with Ted Olson that he did not have to.

He didn’t have to. He should have gotten rid of it with an executive order. He is the president! He is the commander in chief!

Q:Is he a coward about this issue?

I don’t want to call the president of the United States a coward.

Q:I will. On this issue, he’s a coward. He is playing politics with people’s lives. It’s cowardly.

Let me put it this way. From the very beginning, I have been very disappointed in his positions on a lot of civil-rights issues, on a lot of state-secrecy issues, a lot of judicial moments when he could have actually chartered a very different course than his predecessor and he hasn’t. And certainly Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is one of them.

Q:And on gay marriage, he is to the right of Dick Cheney and Ken Mehlman and Ted Olson. It would be almost poetic if it weren’t so sad and disheartening that on the civil-rights issue of our time, our first African-American president will be seen on the wrong side of history. Again, for political reasons he’s playing with people’s lives.

It dismays me, too. It’s dismaying. I am proud to say that I was the first governor in America to propose that same-sex marriage be legal and it still appalls me where we are on this issue in this country. Appalls me.

Eliot Comes Clean [the daily beast]