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Again the world's number one golfer. good morning. welcome to "early start." christine romans in for john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin with a potentially pivotal day in the battle over gay rights, the definition of marriage and the definition of families in america miles per ho america. in about three hours, the supreme court will hear on the constitutional of two laws, the defense of marriage act and proposition 8, california's ban on gay marriage. court's decision set for later this year could have profound implications. for some, the occasi...

State, christine, that granted this rate to same-sex couples and then took it away with prop 8, you could see the court basically saying, you know what, california, you can't do that, we're going to rule against prop 8 but this only applies to that state. another path you would potentially see is the court saying that civil unions doesn't go far enough, that if you don't allow marriage that it's discrimination. so for the states, only for the states that allow civil unions that those states then also have to allow same-sex marriage. and the last and probably least likely scenario, is for the c...

Berman. >> it's tuesday, march 26th. >> maybe in parts of the country. >> send us an e-mail if you're in florida, arizona -- >> california. >> lucky, lucky. >> all right, 29 minutes past the hour. so, the big story we're following right now, about three hours from now, actually, the u.s. begins hearing arguments that could change the definition of marriage and the definition of families in this country as well. at issue, doma, the federal defense of marriage act, and proposition 8, california's ban on gay marriage. the arguments stretching out over the next two days. and some people have cam...

Proposition 8 which amends the california constitution that a marriage was to one man and one woman. they will be here for the arguments today. here is robin tyler. >> i would argue on the merits, if they can vote to take rights away from us when we were in the california constitution, considered a suspect class which means a recognized minority, then they could say okay we'll take, vote to take rights away from anybody. and so i think the ability to vote and take rights away from people is terrible. >> reporter: of course a lot of focus will be on justice kennedy. they have to get five out of...

One group, straight people, and 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 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 sta...