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Six years ago we would be standing in the white house together, as a married couple, legally married couple with the first black president of the united states affirming our love? it was really powerful. still a lot of excitement. a lot of firsts that are happening for us, yes, we are seeing big gains across the country and some key states. >> kenji, one of the important ones doma, and the position on doma. where is that progressing? the administration taken a position on it, but it's not over yet. >> absolutely this will be a blockbuster term, the upcoming term, even though everyone is focusi...

Movement. they tend to be pro-state's rights and the liberals are pro-gay so arguing towards the middle, these are justice kennedy's favorite things. that's clearly a fifth vote for this case. we assume. so i think everyone imagined everyone since appellate court struck it down, that it leads to the supreme court to review the case. everyone thought they would take the case. i think they are going to do the right thing and strike it down. the other case is much more complicated. the doma case doesn't affect any state decisions. where the perry case, the outcome -- >> that's the prop 8 case in ...

The case says there's this definition passed by a ballot initiative that says that marriage is between one man and one woman. if the the supreme court goes broad on that and says there's a fundamental right for same-sex couples to marry, that could flip the remaining states to require them to have same sex marriage. i don't think that's going to happen. for example, the court could look at this and say there are a bunch of states that say we're going to give you the rights and benefits of marriage, but we're going to withhold the word marriage. the court can look and say you're worried about b...