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John arthur is suffering from a terminal illness, lou gehrig's disease. they made their trip to the alter in a plane that had to be outfitted specially to take care of mr. arthur because he was so ill. they flew from cincinnati where they live, to the airport in anne arundel county, maryland. once they were on the ground in maryland, they got married in the plane. they flew home and back home they asked a federal court to recognize their marriage. despite the ohio state ban against marriage equality. and the amazing thing is, that the court said yes. the federal court ordered the state of ohio...

In pennsylvania. how did you come to the decision to do this zm. >> well, if you -- i have to go back about a week. i was contacted by two women who were interested in inquiring about how to get a same sex marriage. and i discussed it, reviewed it with my solicitor, i have a solicitor, michael clark. i reviewed it with the county solicitor. and some of the things we looked at was the windsor case that you were discussing, the u.s. supreme court case. pennsylvania constitution. and a decision by the current attorney general in pennsylvania. and her decision not to defend doma in court. going ba...

You're the takers. >> you have an agenda. >> the homosexual agenda, the takers. i don't know. but i salute jerry brown. he's been very consistent through all of this. and he has succeeded politically. >> what i'm curious, though, about there were so many different ways the court could have settled prop 8 this week. what they settled on was the state of california didn't defend it, therefore, didn't have standing. they could have made a much more sweeping declaration that gay marriage is legal across the country, states with legal union -- i guess, amanda, is there some issue with what jerry br...

Balder, then married version of the same jerry brown who fought the briggs initiative in the '70s paved the way for what the supreme court did this past week. the state of california refused to defend prop 8, anti-gay marriage activists stride to step in to make the case. the supreme court ruled wednesday they didn't have standing to do so. that meant lower court's ruling stood, which meant gay marriage became legal again in california. it meant that jerry brown, now once again governor jerry brown, could order his state to be allowed what happened on friday. >> by virtue of the power and auth...

>> he did, although he did invite a referendum. he didn't telegraph which position he would take on a referendum, if any. >> he said he would be against it. >> it's interesting so watch the polling on new jersey because it's a progressive state. you look at maine last year, these things started passing in some blue states last year. i think it would pass in new jersey if they put it on the ballot. >> also new jersey, if the supreme court of new jersey said, you have to have something equivalent to marriage and civil unions may be that, now clearly civil unions is not equivalent to marriage bec...