The distance Mr. Kylian has traveled since then was evoked, if not fully explicit, in this bill.
The White House could have made it "a little more explicit" that the bill would make refugee approvals nearly impossible, he said, but that public pressure meant some people would break off anyway.
Kansas, Tennessee, South Dakota and Oregon have put forward the most explicit anti-gay bills.
Since this video was made, the number of states where these bills, explicit in their language, have been introduced has expanded to more than two dozen.
For instance, tucked deep in the heart of America's controversial new Medicare bill is explicit language banning the re-importation of medicines into America from Mexico, Canada or any other country, unless Tommy Thompson, the health secretary, approves the medicines.
For a start, there's an explicit exemption in the bill that allows for the letting of rooms in private dwellings if the owner is present (as is often the case in AirBnB lets).
The bill contains explicit legal protections for civil celebrants who refuse to marry same-sex couples.
Advocates of the bill said explicit legal backing was necessary to reassure doctors and to prevent incidents such as the avoidable death last October of Savita Halappanavar, 31, which galvanized abortion-rights activists.
Grassley hasn't expressed explicit support for the bill, but he sent a very strong warning to Trump on Tuesday saying an effort by Trump to fire Mueller would be incredibly risky.
The suggestion that a health plan might offer abortion coverage and it might be used by someone who might have paid a lower premium than someone else because the government might have helped pay their premium is a horrible reason for Congress to carve out an explicit exception to a bill that is otherwise entirely silent on coverage options.
