important to our liberties and who we are that the court protects them. so when the states have periodically said you can't marry because of your race or you can't marry because you're not a good parent or whatever it might be, the courts have struck that down and said we all enjoy this equal fundamental right to marry. today the court said that about gay people. that there's a fundamental right and that same-sex couples can enjoy it on the same terms as everyone else. >> how significant, momentous, is this decision today, mary? >> this is momentous for a number of reasons. number one, it's marriage which is how we organize family life in this nation and it's so important to who people are and protections for their children and for one another. it's the person you love most in the world and the way that we express that is through marriage. so it's so personally important and profound. but then as another matter, it's a time when this court stood by the principles of saying we're not going to tolerate laws that disadvantage people simply because of who they are. and in this case it was gay people and same-sex couples. >> and their children, too.

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