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Came. >> thank you. glad to be here. >> after prop 8 passed, you said if you were elected you would not defend that ban in court. why did you make that decision? and how do you think it's playing out? >> you are exactly right. i did, and we should also note that my opponent said he would defend prop 8 and my opponent was not elected. the reason i say that and has refused to defend proposition 8 is one simple reason. it's unconstitutional and it's found by a court to be unconstitutional and frankly, as the daughter of parents active in the civil rights movement, i refuse to stand in the doorway...

One? one of the cases, the case of loving vs. virginia about interracial marriage, the freedom to marry is important to all people. what gay people are seeking here is the same freedom to marry as other loving and committed couples share in, and they are saying, we're saying that there is no good reason for excluding gay couples from the freedom to marry. in the excerpts you plays in the court. justice kagan and others asked questions, and the attorneys on the anti gay side were unable to come up with a good reason and that's exactly what court after court and now state after state have found....

After the supreme court hearing on california's ban on marriage equality, the first surprising news we heard came from the two lawyers fighting for marriage equality. >> there was no attempt to defend the ban on gay and lesbian marriage. all that was said in there was that this important constitutional right ought to be decided at the state level. >> no one really offered a defense for the awful discrimination that takes place when gay and lesbian citizens are not denied the right given to everyone else to have the family relationship recognized and respected equally. >> charles cooper, the la...

Court, the justices weighing in on the explosive issue of same-sex marriage as a sea of people gather outside the court. in oral arguments the nine justices seemed divided over the issue of same-sex marriage but united that perhaps the matter shouldn't be before the court. at issue california's proposition 8, the 2008 ballot initiative that amended the state's constitution to ban same-sex marriage. the court's liberal justices questioned the rationale for restricting gays and lesbians from marrying. >> can you think of any other rational basis for a state using sexual orientation as a factor i...

Say, anthony kennedy, justice kennedy seemed to be a little bit more in the middle. he seemed to be genuinely conflicted. he's typically a swing vote. but take a listen at chief justice john roberts. he asked a question about this whole notion of redefining labels on what it means to be married. >> if you tell a child that somebody has to be their friend, i suppose you can force the child to say, this is my friend. but it changes the definition of what it means to be a friend. and that's what seems to me what supporters of proposition 8 are saying here. all you're interested in is the label an...