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Court did not rule on the merits of proposition 8, the fact that the net effect of its ruling is to return same sex marriage to its most populous state, most important state and biggest state, i think will be huge. what these two decisions taken together means is the gay rights movement, same sex marriage rights movement would appear unstoppable at this moment. >> most important state, california? i take offense as a new yorker. i will move on because we have more important issues to get to. tony, your reaction? >> well, i agree in part that the ramifications will not be seen immediately. i ta...

Federal law was unconstitutional, it really set the stage for today's decision. >> now, let's transition to california's prop 8. we just got word in that lieutenant governor gavin newsome says same-sex marriage in california should resume within 30 days. take us to the justice's decisions. >> this all started with a ruling by a trial judge in california, a federal court, that proposition 8, which bans the recognition of same-sex marriage in california, was unconstitutional. that's the beginning. it then went up to a court of appeals that agreed. then the supreme court agreed to hear the case. ...

Speaking so eloquently how this process started ten years ago when it was clear that being gay was not a criminal status and could not be made such. that that was the start down the path toward recognizing the equal rights of full citizenship. he said it is a path not complete but where it leads is full marriage rights and in complete, complete equal rights of all kinds for gay people in this country. nationwide. he says that's where the path starts and ends. >> as we talk about full marriage equality rights, doma is obviously huge today and proposition 8 is a win as well. rachel, a lot of peo...

The apparatus of the state will begin i think very soon to process applications for same-sex marriage in the largest state in the union. bill: i want to get to bret now down in washington. we have a decision on doma, we have a decision so far i guess you could call a partial decision in california regarding proposition 8. >> yeah, this is a big day for gay rights supporters, for folks who have been fighting this battle for a longtime in california, in particular, and for the lawyers who have been battling on the prop 8 case. david boyz who is the main lawyer for vice president gore and his cha...

83-year-old widow who brought the defense of marriage act case will get her $300,000 back from the government, which will be quite dramatic. >> barack obama on his twitter feed, today's ruling a historic step forward for #marriageequality, #loveislove. a lot of stories written in the new york papers and in the "san francisco chronicle," "los angeles times" today, rachel, about what the mood -- we do have prop 8. they had done the other decision in between. we're going to wait for pete very quickly. here we go. pete williams has the decision that we think was previewed, but here it is on propos...