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>> martha: that was perhaps the biggest religious freedom case of our time, when the retail chain, hobby lobby, took on the obama white house over the affordable care act contraceptions mandate. exclusively tonight, the founder of hobby lobby, but first, he will be us with in a second. first, trace takes us back through that land mark decision. trace. >> reporter: when the green family, who owns hobby lobby, they were specifically objecting to intrauterine devices, saying those forms of birth control were akin to abortion. they argued that forcing family owned company whose rely on christian v...

Do you believe, under "new york times" v sullivan, that the first amendment would permit public officials to sue the media under any standard less demanding than actual malice and can you explain to the people here today and those watching on tv what that standard means to you. >> that was a land mark decision. and it change dramatically the law of defation and lie bell in this country. rather than the law of defame apgs and laborel applicable normally for a long time the supreme court said the first amendment has special meaning and protection when we are talking about the media, the press, i...

Can now treat all of its married couples equally for financial purposes, health care benefits. you cannot come to massachusetts and say you need to treat people differently for purposes of federal law. >> if massachusetts were to decide that i can marry a tree, should the federal government somehow subsidize that? that's really what this is all about. >> i want to bring in now sonny who is tin. there she is. she is with our sister network, trutv. she joins me to sort out what the ruling might mean for the rest of the country. i'm sure it's going to have ramifications all over the country. some...