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Inside the fight for marriage equality by joe becker. presents an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at all of the players involved in the 2013 fight to overturn proposition 8 in the supreme court. however, some pioneers of the gay rights movement have been critical of that movement. andrea sullivan wrote, for becker, the movement for marriage equality was a cause that for years had been largely languishing in obscurity. i don't know how to address that statement because it is so wrong, and so ignorant, it begs a belief that a respectful journalist could actually put it in print. gay activis...

>> the captain needs to be sentenced to death. he is not worth being fed in prison out of our tax dollars. why were there so many different opinions on this case? >> the chief justice primarily was responding to the comments by justice sotomayor. >> is this still what people do? >> no. this is actually very retro now. can we do one? >> let's do it. >> all right. >> there it is! thanks, dave. >> thank you. >> thank you. churches, schools, not necessarily the places you associate with carrying guns. minutes ago the governor of georgia signed an unprecedented new bill that fundament...

Beyond where it expected to be on civil rights and by next tuesday he was included in meetings and the president, president kennedy went further than he thought he was going to go at the time. >> look, it was brazenly political what they did on how they handle gay marriage. they were worried about a floor fight at their own convention. i don't think the republican party 2016 willi be able to be for same-sex marriage but i bet by 2020. jo becker, good luck with the book. thanks for being here. happy easter for all of you. i wanted to show you pictures of pope francis giving his traditional east...

Beyond where it expected to be on civil rights and by next tuesday he was included in meetings and the president, president kennedy went further than he thought he was going to go at the time. >> look, it was brazenly political what they did on how they handle gay marriage. they were worried about a floor fight at their own convention. i don't think the republican party 2016 willi be able to be for same-sex marriage but i bet by 2020. jo becker, good luck with the book. thanks for being here. happy easter for all of you. i wanted to show you pictures of pope francis giving his traditional east...

New book, biden's statement created a little bit of chaos within the white house after he got ahead of president obama and endorsed gay marriage essentially here. the book is "forcing the springs: inside the fight for marriage equality" by jo becker who joins us here. it's good to have you here. take us to the reaction in the white house. the white house said afterwards, no, no, the president was going to endorse gay marriage before the election anyway. >> sure. the president and his advisers ha had been debating this for month. there were two countervailing political forces going on. they wer...