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both sides of the issue. we will spend the first two hours previewing the cases and getting your take on the issue. democrats republicans independents send us a tweet. go to twitter doubt, twitter.com. facebook.com/cspan. we will begin with proposition 8, the case that will be before the court today. here is the washington times from yesterday about the key questions in that case of hollingsworth versus perry. this is what it says those are the constitutional questions before the court today and tomorrow when oral arguments, and to go same-sex marriage cases. we re getting your take on that. let s go to chuck in west virginia. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i keep on hearing people and reading columns by people saying at if the supreme court grants marriage equality to law- abiding tax paying gay couples in the united states that it is an attack on marriage that is going to destroy marriage. nothing is happening to traditional marriage for ....
what about the children? are they satisfied? are they satisfied with government tells them that it does not matter one whit that they will go through life without the tenderness of a mother or the protection of a father? i am the mother of two daughters and on behalf of daughters everywhere, i call that an injustice. i am a lawyer, but i m going to be brief. i want to end by saying once again, on sunday, 1.4 million march 4n paris traditional marriage. we stand in solidarity with them. two years ago, 1 million spaniards marched in madrid for marriage. we stand in solidarity with them. thank you. for the sake of the children being here today, we are kicking off the marriage theme in earnest today. thank you. [cheers] only about 20 more minutes and we will conclude. our next speaker is the leader chuckreat group, the late fallston chuck colson founded. example of what people of faith should stand for in the public square. many of you have probably signed it, the manha ....
we also think that mr. olson is simply wrong when he suggests that the baker case did not involve a claim to classification based upon sexual orientation, just gender. here is what the plaintiffs in baker said. this is the route the jurisdictional statement. there is no discrimination and the law against homosexuals. appellant of being denied a numerous right, they have been denied numerous rights order to assemble others similarly situated. this was clearly a case where they charge the classification is one based on sexual orientation as well as one based on gender. the levin case would have been the, on all fours, would have the baker case would have been on all fours with loving it same-sex sexual relations produced childrenhe same as opposite sex sexual relations do. en mr. olson would have a laydowcase. there were be no basis on which to draw a distinction to identify a distinguishing characteristic withespect to any interest the state has the authority to im ....
do. you look what happened thursday on the floor where from one minute to the next it seemed like we are ping ponging between the dream act the immigration, don t ask don t tell, firefighters bill, tax cuts, i think every journalist knows in the closing days of any legislative session, state, local, national, you just have got to be ready for anything. tax cuts are obviously the priority. they re going to vote cloture at 3:00 p.m. monday. if they get cloture, the 30-hour clock is ticking. you re probably talking about a tuesday-wednesday vote. then the flood gates open. i wouldn t predict anything right now past that. even though the chairman was pessimistic and even though i don t see that much time, i ve also seen them pull a lot of rabbits out of the hat especially in the waning days of the session. and you asked about tax cuts. is this a liberal, democrat, from michigan. what did you hear from him? i was struck by his displeasure, shall we say, with president ....
marriage. th is live coverage on c-spa good morning, again, mr. cooper. good morning again to you, as well, your honor. the people of california and americans brought the country are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the meaning, purposes, and definition of marriage. the issue is a momentous one, for it goes to the very nature of an ancient and ubiquitous social institution that is, in the words of the united states supreme court, fundamental to the very existence and survival of the human race. this court is presented with, in our submission, this fundamental question. it is whether the definition of marriage, that momentous issue, is one for the people themselves to resolve through the democratic process as they did in enacting proposition at eight. it or whether our constitution takes that issue it essentially out of their hands and the sides and for them, as of the plaintiffs argue here. the people love, deede california reinstitute school segreg ....