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Connecting hsame-sex marriage t polygamy and incest. they relied on mr. tam and through mr. tam used the website as part of the protect marriage campaign. so thats directly -- thats directly from the ruling. so, in other words, dude learned from the rent boy guy that gays are bad and he knows that george rekers must be right about that because the man believes george rekers. also, he says, as backup, the internet says so. this was the case for californias gay marriage ban. this was the case they...

Enormously to a judges finding of fact. they can really look at findings of law from scratch. and judge walker puts together 80 different findings of fact in this cage, really meticulously combing through the record, looking at the evidence, citing the witnesses and finding 80 different places where he says things as a matter of fact like kids -- it doesnt make any difference if you are raised by gay or straight parents, the animus is based on stereotypes. so he goes down 80 findings of fact tha...

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To loud music. >> im so glad that you pointed it out. just as a layman, i have no legal training or anything, but i was reading through this and got to the statements of fact and instead of just reading them online i started printing them out and highlighting them because i sort couldnt believe because this was in that part of the ruling, the campaign to pass prop 8 relied on stereotypes to show that same-sex relationships are inferior to opposite-sex relationships. he then says the stereotypes ...

This country. thats sort of the big idea that is this country. america, comfort religious liberty. stay for the rock ribbed guarantees of all your other rights. today for the first time in our nations history, a federal court put the issue of a state ban on gay marriage to the constitutional test. the results were blistering. a federal judge in california ruled unequivocally in the strongest possible terms that californias recently passed gay marriage ban, prop 8, is unconstitutional. the ruling...

This does make it to the u.s. supreme court, or even looking ahead to the ninth circuit, based on your understanding of the law here, how strong do you think the anti-gay marriage appeal is going to be? how resilient do you think this ruling is going to be when it gets higher scrutiny? >> its a great question, rachel, and its really clear when you look at this 138-page opinion of which you read some of the highlights but not nearly all. its really worth reading in its entirety, but, you know, tw...

Case, so i think what this really does is it in a very, very broad statement, i mean, he finds both as a matter of equal protection and as a matter of due process of law, this is unconstitutional. so its not a narrow ruling, rachel, but certainly i think this tees up a question that the supreme court probably wants to avoid, but i think is really going to have to deal with. i mean, this is a, you know, has always been a gamble about, as i said, one person, anthony kennedy at the center of the co...

For the alliance defense fund, the people defending prop 8, say they plan to appeal the decision today, all the way to the u.s. supreme court. where do they start? what happens next? >> well, first, we have a little fight that were going to have over the judge staying his order. in other words, today judge walker almost immediately temporarily stayed his order, and hes going to let the parties decide. i think their papers are due, its definitely expedited, but i think by friday they have got to ...