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One amazing thing about the gay marriage ban overturned in california today was something i had known about the trial while it was happening. but i didn't really appreciate the importance of it until i read the ruling that came out this afternoon. the anti-gay marriage people, the people defending the gay marriage ban in court, only called two experts in their whole case. they only called two witnesses. the first one was this guy, david blankenhorn. he is president of the institute for american values. now judge walker spent the better part of ten pages of his ruling just talking smack about d...

In the california constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. the court concludes that proposition 8 is unconstitutional, and with that california's gay marriage ban went kaput. a huge victory, of course, for gay rights supporters in that state and possibly around the country. but judge walker, who is a george h.w. bush appointee, george walker struck down california's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional, he also probably set the stage for what will be the next big court fight and the next big political fight. the anti-gay marriage side that was defeate...

Luck as this continues forward. >> thank you very much. >> thank you, rachel. wow, okay. do you remember, um, the really creepy anti-gay researcher who said that people could be cured of the gay, except then he turned up in an airport coming home from a european vacation with a really cute blond rent boy who he tried to explain away as his luggage handler? remember that story? well, that guy turns up in the most amazing way in this court ruling today from california. not the rent boy, the anti-gay guy who hired the rent boy for his baggage. he turns up in the ruling. you sort of won't believ...

Issues, the pros and cons from every conceivable standpoint and came out on the side of the gay and lesbian couples that we represented in every respect. we're very, very grateful. >> mr. boies, looking ahead to next steps here, obviously the opposition in this case already filed paperwork indicating that they would like to appeal. do -- candidly, do you think there are any elements of this ruling that may be difficult to defend on appeal? judge walker writing a very forceful statement of his view of the evidence. >> it was a very, very careful and well-written opinion, and it was very well gr...

Homosexuality, the george reekers thing, as the source of information about homosexuality because he, quote, believes in what they say. mr. tam identified the internet as the source of information connecting same-sex marriage to polygamy and incest. protect marriage, the proposition 8 campaign, relied on mr. tam and through mr. tam used the website 1man1woman.net as part of the protect marriage campaign. so that's directly -- that's directly from the ruling. so in other words dude learned from the rent boy guy that gays are bad, and he knows that george reekers must be right about that because...