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For me, it's the principle of equality. looking people in the eye and not having -- harboring this feeling that you're somehow different or you're not as good as us. >> and once olson made the decision, it became an emotional journey. >> shortly after we filed this case, a young woman in the law firm came up to me and she said i am a lesbian, i am with my partner, we have children, and what you are doing for us means so much to me and to my partner and to our children. i just can't thank you enough. and she began to dissolve in tears and so did i. we wound up embracing. that has happened to me...

13 years after sandy and kris wanted to get married. olson and boies are finally at the steps of the supreme court. >> just walking into the supreme court and standing before the justices, for a lawyer there's nothing like it. >> you'll hear arguments this morning in case 1244, holingsworth versus perry. mr. olson? >> thank you, mr. chief justice. may it please the court -- >> at first, the justices seem cautious, questioning whether now is the right time and if the supreme court is the right place to make a decision on same-sex marriage. starting with justice alito. >> same-sex marriage is ve...

Ability to procreate. >> they will interrupt you. >> but wasn't the court talking about marriage between the opposite sex? >> individual -- >> you don't seriously dispute that gay marriage was unheard of? >> you must answer their questions but you must bring the case back to the prism through which you want them to see the light. >> marriage between persons of the same sex and marriage between persons of the opposite sex is identical. you better be good, because if they're asking questions you don't answer properly, what's going to happen to you in the supreme court? >> you can't sit up there ...

Supreme court. it's been a long journey here for the last 3 1/2 years. >> now it's up to the nine justices to make a decision. >> the court has several ways to decide this case from a very broad-sweeping conclusion with respect to the rights of our citizens in this country, to a narrower ruling that would be limited basically to california. >> opposing attorney austin nimocks agreed the court was conflicted and the outcome uncertain. can you tell at all from the questions you were getting about the way in which the justices were thinking about this case? >> you can tell a lot about how they're...

>> there are certain rights that are so fundamental to everybody that we say no majority can take it away. >> or a right reserved for a man and a woman? >> there is no fundamental right to same-sex marriage in the u.s. constitution. >> former political adversaries, once on opposite sides of history now joining forces. >> to get the two guys that oppose each other on bush v. gore to team up and say this is a nonpartisan issue. >> literally you are preparing for the case in here. now the supreme court will decide the case -- >> marriage is a fundamental right. >> that could change a nation. it...