Wayne Friday

Okay, I couldn't get the word there.

My sexual orientation has nothing at all to do with saving the president's life, just as the color of my eyes or my race has nothing to do with what happened in front of the St.

Francis Hotel on Tuesday.

My sexuality is a part of my private life, and has no bearing on my response to the act of a person seeking to take the life of another.

I'm first and foremost a human being who enjoys and respects life.

I feel that a person's worth is determined by how he or she responds to the world in which they live, not on how or what or with whom a private life is shared.

Yeah.

I want you to know that my mother told me today that she could not walk out of her front door or even go to church because of the pressures she feels because of the press, stories—

Concerning my sexual orientation.

Naturally, I never anticipated such interference with my family's relationship, which I when I supposedly saved the president's life.

I never anticipated such interference with my family's relationship, which I, when I supposedly saved the president's life.

This is all I have to say on this subject.

Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.

Any questions that go to the minister or to my lawyer?

I'd like to ask Mr. Simple a question.

What would you like to see happen now?

I don't know.

I'm just, I'm very shook up.

I might even have to go even see a doctor over this.

I'm very emotionally shook up and I just, I feel very sorry for my family too.