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Legal weight on the side of fairness and the side of the freedom to marry. we haven't finished the job. but the momentum this adds will build forward and bring us forward and bring our country closer and it's 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 it's not legal, they can still get federal benefits, correct? >> well the court's command was very clear and it's the command of the constitution. president obama came right ...

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 doesn't 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. you're saying, no, state -- there are two kinds of marriages. the full marriage and then this sort of skim milk marriage. >> what ...

Going to want to go down in history that way. i think they're going to choose a more paragraphs moan yus solution. there's a one-state solution, there's an eight-state solution. there's 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 court. the reason i think that, melissa, doma doesn't require any state to change its marriage ...

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