Contemplated gay marriage. because it s clearly not what anyone understood as marriage at the time of the framing of the constitution. reporter: still, same-sex families pay taxes and don t get the same benefit and the issue with doma really gets complicated if they have children who are also excluded from benefits. when we have kids, i would like them to be born in a post-doma united states. reporter: still, california is one of only a handful of states that gives most of the benefits of marriage to same-sex couples in domestic partnerships. one question is whether any ruling by the court on california could affect all of those other states in the same way. joe johns, thank you very much. i mentioned this just a few minutes ago. a popular reality show has now responded after an outcry from war veterans. the show has issued a rare on-air apology. that s ahead. iddle-melts to your usual breakfast sandwich. a lot more flavor. [ anouncer ] ihop s new griddle melts. made fresh an
D.c., and they chose to say that marriage is one man and one woman for purposes of federal law. reporter: and conservatives say the founding fathers never contemplated gay marriage. because it s clearly not what anyone understood as marriage at the time of the framing of the constitution. reporter: still, same-sex families pay taxes and don t get the same benefit and the issue with doma really gets complicate federal they have children who are also excluded from benefits. when we have kids, i would like them to be born in a post-doma united states. reporter: still, california is one of only a handful of states that gives most of the benefits of marriage to same-sex couples in domestic partnerships. one question is whether any ruling by the court on california could affect all of those other states in the same way. joe johns, thank you very much. i mentioned this just a few minutes ago. a popular reality show has now responded after an outcry from war veterans. the show has
There s going to be children that are children of gay couples that are still going to exist. we re still going to have the practical issue to deal with. are we going to tell those children that their family is deserving of less recognition or that they come from a dysfunctional family? are we going to tell that couple that they have less of a right to love each other? so this issue is not going to go away. we have to remember, let s put a name and face to this, the case that s going in front of the supreme court edith winsler, 83 years old, spent 40 years with her partner thea. if thea had been theo, edith winsler would not have had to pay the $600,000 in estate taxes she had to pay when her partner died. that s what we re talking about. that s the kind of equality, but regardless of what the court decides, edith and thea are still going to love each other and still going to be a couple. the thing is that edith and thea don t want separate but
History. the court takes up same-sex marriage in less than two days. justices will hear arguments for the first case tuesday involving california s proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage. the second case centers on the defense of marriage act which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. as the supreme court prepares to tackle that issue, same-sex couples across the country are watching. cnn s joe johns has a story of a couple, one couple in the d.c. area, who are hoping history will be made. reporter: the battle over same-sex marriage in california has been going on for years, and coming up this week it finally arrives at the u.s. supreme court. we talked to one of the couples involved in the case who win or lose have already assured themselves a small place in history with their legal challenge. jamel thomas and corainne williams have been together four years before they got married last year in october. don t let the wedding dresses fool you.
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