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Decision to come to this case is very gripping. you really do pay proper dues to the movement that came before you also talk about a personal motivation. the movement to end anti-gay discrimination is the defining issue of the first half of the 21st century. why choose this particular case, proposition 8, as a way into that snsh. >> two reasons. first, i was asked to come into it, to the case. so it presented an opportunity. second, california was a particularly attractive venue to fight this is...

Plaintiffs who put their lives out there. they went in a federal courtroom and spoke about some of the harms done to them by laws like proposition 8. for people to get to know them and understand what that means for california families was a big deal and that was part of what these people were doing, was trying to get that message out to everyone in the country. >> its one thing to be for it. its another thing to take a stand for it and be a plaintiff in a case, and its another thing to be the s...

What the result of that case will be. an amazing phenomenon. since the supreme court struck down doma, the defense of marriage act, last year, 14 judges have considered bans on same-sex marriage or recognizing same-sex marriages. all of them have struck down those bans. so clearly the federal judiciary is moving in the direction of strike down them all, but the supreme court has not spoken on the issue. i think the odds are at this point they will say same-sex marriage is constitutionally requir...

Californias proposition 8 is also evolving as he plans his daughters wedding to her girlfriend. hes not the only one whos evolve on the issue. heres president obama back in 2010. >> with respect to the issue of whether gays and lesbians should be able to get married, ive spoken about this recently. as ive said, my feelings about this are constantly evolving. >> we all know just how far hes come. two years later telling abcs robin roberts he now supports marriage equality. according to author joe...

Back. so some of those viewers are the left. my mother watches it, and shes as liberal as they come. there are moments in which we as americans decide to vote with our feet, with our pocket books as well as with the ballot booth. thats whats happening here. >> let me ask you, emily. in this case, lets take the mozilla case. weve got the pressure was clearly to get rid of the ceo for something that he did six years ago that reflected the same view that barack obama and hillary clinton had. it was...

Its how edward jones makes sense of investing. in austin the lbj is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 civil rights act. what is left unfinished in the pursuit of equal justice for all, arguably the fight for marriage equality, which brought together two past legal adver adversa adversaries. ted olson made the case at the beginning of the 2013 oral argument. >> i thought it would be important for this court to have proposition 8 put in context what it does. it walls off gay and les...

Like the religious right than anyone else, then count me out. and tammy bruce said, im a gay woman appalled you caved to the gay gestapo. they argue in a piece that may or may not be tongue in cheek that all 35,000 people who contributed to californias proposition 8 should be, quote, purged. he adds, lets go get them. brett. >> more on this with the panel. thank you. what do you think about this story? let me know at facebook.com/bretbaiersr, or on twitter. >> a federal judge says he will orde...

>> well, i think the question that ultimately is going to need to be decided by the courts and ultimately the supreme court is whether the different states bans on gay marriage violate the 14th amendment to the united states constitution. if you look at the cases that the supreme court ruled on last year, striking down section 3 of the defense of marriage act, justice kennedy wrote that state laws that treat same-sex cup ous as second class citizens violated the due process and equal protection ...

Lets start with number five. >> ted olson and david boyce, the two lawyers who brought the case in california challenging proposition 8 and were ultimately successful in getting the supreme court to end the enforcement of proposition 8 but not for all the reasons they wanted. they wanted a broad constitutional ruling and they didnt get it. theyre back in next year to try to get it. >> you have russian lgbt activists and theyve put themselves out there. a little bit of a risk. right? >> it will b...

Presidents going to do it but i do think people, as i said sunday in the "l.a. times" i think there is a better case for pardon than people suggest. if you look at the thousands of pardons that have come down, this is a program that was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge, as we just discussed. its viewed as abusive by many civil libertarians but also, the president has admitted, the congress has admitted that there were abuses. there are two task forces issuing reforms, there are new l...