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Killed, assassinated. >> we must continue to speak out and most importantly, most importantly, every gay person must come out. >> what do you say to the young man or woman who wants to pursue the kind of ambitions you held? and a lot of us have held? should they come out? should they come out or not if they're gay? >> if i can back up for a second, i think harry milk was very much right. when you look at people like evan wohlson and andrew sullivan talking about gay marriage, you look at a generation ago, people like larry cramer, david rothenberg, people if you will, leaders in the gay rights...

0 they have rich cream marriages whereas people who are same-sex couples in other states don't get any of those benefits. >> yeah. pete -- >> i think that opens up an attack in favor of trying to declare a nationwide constitutional right to marriage. what do you think about that, pete? >> reporter: i think that's an excellent point. and i think that's exactly why justice kennedy doesn't want to go there. because if they do go, as some justices today indicated that they were willing to say that the federal government can't make these distinctions, well, if the federal government can't make thes...

these are the matters argued today in the supreme court. can people of the same sex be denied the opportunity to marry? is it just? is it constitutional? is it equal protection of the laws? or is it unjustified, unconstitutional, unfair and unequal? well, the court must now rule on where the defense of marriage act fits by these standards. can it be defended as just, fair and equal when it so clearly be deaf significance is not? can it be declared consistent with our american constitution which says we cannot be denied life, liberty or property without due process of law? tonight we ...

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government, who believe that they're victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they're entitled to health care, to food, to captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> stephen: tonight, new trouble for the romney campaign, get ready for the rafalka sex tape. (laughter) and a major legal victory for apple. but it will be replaced with a faster, slimmer legal victory in six months. (laughter) then, my guest, jeffrey toobin is here to talk about obama's relationship with the supreme ...