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The showdown over prop 8, california s ban on gay marriage heads to an appeals court in san francisco today after a lower court ruled the amendment defining marriage as between a man and woman was unconstitutional. pete williams is nbc news justice correspondent. pete, this is step now, two, in the process of this thing eventually making its way all wait here to washington and the supreme court, correct? right. and what the appeals court does will depend on, you know, what happens in terms of today will govern who it is that appeals and what the case is when they do appeal. the pro-prone nents of prop 8 are the ones appealing here, asking its court to rule that proposition 8 is constitutional. they say that marriage is a fundamental building block of society that marriage opposite sex marriage channels procreation into a stable environment and secondly, they say california shouldn t be required to change quickly an institution that has served the human race for time immemorial. now ....

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