“Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer and Tico Almeida, founder and president of Freedom to Work and an LGBT advocate, analyze why gay rights are advancing more quickly on a state level — several states have legalized gay marriage — than on a national level. For example, President Obama has yet to sign an executive order banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, and Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney’s foreign policy spokesman, recently resigned over conservative backlash. “I live in Washington, D.C. — I used to live in New York and I’m now in D.C. — and I sense a lot of risk aversion among my peers who are lawyers or lobbyists who work in government. D.C. is a place where a lot of people go along to get along,” Almeida explains.
