marriage ee kwaumt. on tuesday, the highest court will hear the legal challenge to proposition 8 amending the constitution in 2008 to bar same sex couples from getting married. it will have the most significant effect on whether any state can forbid marriage equality. it also offers the greatest potential to expand marriage equality across the country. the next day the court takes up the constitutional conflict in the 1996 defense of marriage act or doma which defines federal acknowledgment of same-sex marriag marriages. at stake? federal marriage benefits for those who are legally married. the arguments laid out before the nine justices this week will establish a furd precedence for the next chapter for the fight in marriage equality. this is a watershed moment. but it is just part of a long and continuing struggle because the struggle has already been quite long. in the summer of 1969, five days