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>> not his colleague -- not four of his -- five of his colleagues today. >> right. >> as i have observed before, he writes, justice scalia, the constitution does not forbid the government to enforce traditional, moral, and sexual norms. and that is a widely held belief. and he -- but he was outvoted this time, that gay people cannot have their sexuality demeaned, as justice kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. but that fight over the status of gay people and whether the government is allowed t...

So whats your reaction to what were seeing with proposition 8 as well as doma? >> well, its a special moment. certainly. i mean, were affirming not a supreme court decision. were not affirming a legal brief. we are affirming peoples lives, the ability to live their lives out loud. to live in dignity and to fall in love and be able to say "i do" and thomas you know this intimately. its not just about couples themselves. its about their loved ones, their brothers and sisters, their aunts and uncle...

Been struck down. any state that recognizes fay marriage must also afford the couples the rights and privileges under federal law protections that otherwise heterosexual couples would still be able to take advantage of today. with regard to proposition 8, this now is likely to see further litigation over the question of of gay marriage and whether or not that can take place in the state of california. but the ruling from a few minutes ago from the court means that the federal court ruling striki...

Federal government serves no legitimate government purpose and demeans people in those states who are recognized as legally married in the states and also humiliates is the word he used tens of thousands of children of same-sex couples. so that was a huge decision. and then in the second big decision today, the court tossed out the legal challenge to californias proposition 8. the challengers had brought. a lower court had declared it unconstitutional. and today the supreme court basically let t...

Has ruled. it has gotten out of the way of doing anything that might uphold proposition 8, and therefore reinstate californias ban on same-sex marriage, which had been in effect, i guess, because there had been the rulings against proposition 8 had been put on hold by the lower court. so before today, proposition 8 stood, because of the possibility the supreme court would uphold it. that possibility is now gone. and so the governor of california, individual court clerks, can make the judgment, l...

Shopping for strawberries now. find fresh berries and all your quality produce backed by our money back guarantee. walmart. the supreme court now pronounces man and man, wife and wife, or man and wife. whoever you are, you can get married. its wednesday, june 26th, and your happily ever after begins now. im joy reid in for alex wagner today. in a huge victory for supporters of gay rights, the supreme court today struck down the federal defense of marriage act and issued a ruling in californi...

So what happens then to the law, judge in california? >> that means that the trial court decision is the law of california, and the trial court decision said proposition 8, the referendum cannot interfere with what the supreme court of california found is a right for same-sex couples to marry in california. stated differently, same-sex marriage is lawful in the largest state in the union, california, from and after today as a result of this opinion, and all those who got married in the interim, ...

Court in two important decisions brings us that much closer to true equality. in the decision striking as unconstitutional, the so-called doma or defense of marriage case, the united states supreme court held that there was no purpose for depriving gay and lesbian couples of the right to marry the person they love. there was no legitimate justification for that. as justice scalia noted, that holding, that principle, guarantees the right of every individual in every state to marriage equality. in...

>> shepard: could be weeks before gay couples in california can get married again. thats the word from a federal appeals court in dispran. today as we reported earlier the supreme court refused to reinstate californias ban on same sex marriage. officials say supporters of proposition 8 can ask the high court to rehear that case. and for now the ban is still in effect. claudia cowan is live for us live this afternoon in san francisco. hi, claudia. >> good evening, shepard. many same sex couples h...

Breadth of this in many ways. but when you look, as we were talking about -- im sorry, lets go back to pete. not yet. as we look -- edie windsors case and we look at the difference between $363,000 in taxes versus zero, give us those real-life examples of what -- were going to wait. because we have another report. hes going to read the descent. pete williams now. >> reporter: refers to the prop 8 case. and it suggests -- let me make it very clear. we dont have the proposition 8 ruling yet. but b...