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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. that's it seems to me what the quarters of proposition 8 are saying. all you're interested in is the label and you insist on the definition of the label. >> your analysis of that comment? >> i thought that was a fascinating comment. absolutely right. supporters. marriage equality are saying, gay people are entitled to the same respect and dignity as straight people when it comes to marriage. so you can't create a separate category calling it civil unions because that deni...

Could the supreme court be having second thoughts of taking up the lightning rod issue? today protesters and gay rights supporters swarming the steps of the supreme court and inside the justices were listening to the arguments. bullet point by bullet point. for and against. california's ban on same-sex marriage. that's the so-called proposition 8. the justices have the power to make gay marriage the law of the land. currently, it's actually only the law in nine states and washington, d.c. if you go straight from that to all 50, well, that's a really big edict from the high court and some justi...

Recognize gay friends and family. 57% of people now say they have a family member or close friend who is gay. 12 percentage points higher than in 2007. tomorrow, though, the only survey that really counts, will have a sample size of nine. nine supreme court justices and perhaps only one pivotal voice when the decisions are read most likely in june. let's talk about it with senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and california's attorney general, kamela harris. tomorrow, the justices will be dealing with whether or not americans have a constitutional right to same sex marriage and they are looking...

Withhold them from the other. that's the issue and on the other side, the defenders of proposition 8 will be saying look, the voters spoke on this issue, this is a political question, the court should stay out of it. if gay people want the right to vote, they should organize and do it through the political system, not through judges. >> attorney general harris, supporters in your state, california, of the ban there say that the issue is evolving in the public domain, the supreme court shouldn't step in now and short-circuit the democratic process and impose a 50 state solution. to that, you sa...

And we're just in love with them and we're so humbled by the fact that we get to speak for them in the united states supreme court. did you want to go first? >> i'm chris perry, plaintiff in the case just heard at the supreme court. in this country, as children, we learn that there is a founding principle that all men and women are created equal. and we want this equality because this is a founding principle. unfortunately with the passage of proposition 8, we learned that there are a group of people in california who are not being treated equaledly. and that was recognized by a federal court ...