Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100709:03:06:00
Because presumably we might want some federal law passed that institutes marriage equality. it seems that argument could be used by states that don't want to grant it to deny marriage equality. >> we don't agree with that. keep in mind, this has to do solely with what massachusetts has done, which is extend civil rights, as we believe it should be. we hope this leads to the extension of civil rights throughout the country. we don't think it will cause the shrinking of them. massachusetts has decided that. what we said is that the congress cannot now by a statute, change what massachusetts has ...