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>> not his colleague -- not four of his -- five of his colleagues today. >> right. >> as i have observed before, he writes, justice scalia, the constitution does not forbid the government to enforce traditional, moral, and sexual norms. and that is a widely held belief. and he -- but he was outvoted this time, that gay people cannot have their sexuality demeaned, as justice kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. but that fight over the status of gay people and whether the government is allowed to discriminate against gay people, that's the heart of the dispute between the five justices and the...

So what's your reaction to what we're seeing with proposition 8 as well as doma? >> well, it's a special moment. certainly. i mean, we're affirming not a supreme court decision. we're not affirming a legal brief. we are affirming people's lives, the ability to live their lives out loud. to live in dignity and to fall in love and be able to say "i do" and thomas you know this intimately. it's not just about couples themselves. it's about their loved ones, their brothers and sisters, their aunts and uncles, their kids and grandkids, whose lives are also affirmed. this is a special moment, and it...

Been struck down. any state that recognizes fay marriage must also afford the couples the rights and privileges under federal law protections that otherwise heterosexual couples would still be able to take advantage of today. with regard to proposition 8, this now is likely to see further litigation over the question of of gay marriage and whether or not that can take place in the state of california. but the ruling from a few minutes ago from the court means that the federal court ruling striking down gay marriage stands in the state of california, it was a 5-4 vote. i believe based on the co...

Federal government serves no legitimate government purpose and demeans people in those states who are recognized as legally married in the states and also humiliates is the word he used tens of thousands of children of same-sex couples. so that was a huge decision. and then in the second big decision today, the court tossed out the legal challenge to california's proposition 8. the challengers had brought. a lower court had declared it unconstitutional. and today the supreme court basically let that lower court ruling stand. it said that the people who put prop 8 on the ballot had no legal aut...

Has ruled. it has gotten out of the way of doing anything that might uphold proposition 8, and therefore reinstate california's ban on same-sex marriage, which had been in effect, i guess, because there had been the rulings against proposition 8 had been put on hold by the lower court. so before today, proposition 8 stood, because of the possibility the supreme court would uphold it. that possibility is now gone. and so the governor of california, individual court clerks, can make the judgment, look, i see that trial judge's ruling, which is in effect today, saying that prop 8 is unconstitutio...