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>> she's obviously pretty smart little girl over there. both of you should be very proud of her. congratulations on your upcoming -- is there date already? >> no. >> we've got a lot of questions about when we're doing this. takes a while to plan a wedding. >> we're like everybody else and get to have all that stress and those discussions and about arguments about when and where. >> i assume you have a little flower girl. >> she's been waiting for that for years now. >> thank you for joining us and your daughter. thanks to you ellie if you can hear me. >> i can hear you. >> appreciate you joini...

Brings us that much closer to true equality. in the decision striking as unconstitutional the so-called doma or defense of marriage case, the united states supreme court held that there was no purpose for depriving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry the person they love. there was no legitimate justification for that. as justice scalia noted, that holding, that principle guarantees the right of every individual in every state to marriage equality. in the california case the supreme court held that the proponents of proposition 8 did not have standing. what that means is that in that ca...

That's a real injury and a real stake in the case to come forward and say they want to reinstate proposition 8. that's probably what will happen in california. haven't seen that yet. >> it's law school 101. civil procedures. the individual who takes a court to federal case says i've lost something. something has happened to me. i've been injured in some way and therefore i want to sue. what the court is saying is that the individuals who are trying to prop up or protect the proposition 8 did not have a stake. all they were were supporters of proposition 8.

Supreme court. decisions that will affect millions and millions of americans. the court struck down key parts of the defense of marriage act. the justices dismissed an appeal over california's proposition 8. that means that same-sex marriage will be legal in the largest state in the united states. there's strong reaction to the rulings from both sides. take a listen to this. >> this is about equality and this means the marriages of people in my state and all over america between same-sex couples will be treated equally under more than 1100 pro visions that use the term marriage. it's great win...

Right parties to do that and the government officials are refusing to do so, what the lowest court had done was strike down prop 8, meaning that it's no good, it can't amend the state constitution to say that marriage is only one man and one woman. as we continue to read through this the first impression is prop 8 is probably gone in california. these parties did not have standing to appeal the decision. we'll keep reading that is the first blurb it probably means bad news for proposition 8. bill: it was a ballot measure in 2008. the question was if they could make it unconstitutional in the s...