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Legal weight on the side of fairness and the side of the freedom to marry. we havent finished the job. but the momentum this adds will build forward and bring us forward and bring our country closer and its to win more states, continue winning hearts and minds and go back before the court and get the job done. >> for somebody, a same sex couple that married in a state where they can get married and live in a state where its not legal, they can still get federal benefits, correct? >> well the cou...

Do it. >> today the supreme court heard charges to the defense of marriage act. the challenge was brought by edie windsor herself, for a basic reason. doma doesnt seem fair. while the court will not rule until june, it appears that a majority of justices are leaning towards striking down the law. the four liberal justices argued that the law was discriminatory. >> it affects every area of life, and so you are really diminishing what the state has said is marriage. youre saying, no, state -- ther...

Going to want to go down in history that way. i think theyre going to choose a more paragraphs moan yus solution. theres a one-state solution, theres an eight-state solution. theres various ways they can pick. some future decision will wipe out the remaining out liars further down the road. doma cases are slightly different. i think the doma challenge is much narrower challenge and i expect it to be much more optimistic about a kind of flat-out ruling that this is unconstitutional by the supreme...

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