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WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT THE JUDGE'S
DECISION HERE.
>> SEEMS LIKE WE ARE BEGINNING
TO SEE ANOTHER CASE EVERY OTHER
WEEK.
A JUDGE STRUCK DOWN THE TEXAS
BAN ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND
RULING ON WEDNESDAY.
IT HAS NO RESIDENTIAL RELATION
TO A GOVERNMENT PURPOSE.
BASICALLY HE SAID TWO SETS OF
PLAINTIFFS WHO FILED THIS CASE
IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
THEY ARE LIKELY TO PREVAIL ONCE
ALL THE MERITS ARE HEARD.
HE DOES GIVE A TIME FOR THEM TO
BE APPEALED.
A COUPLE OF SETS ARE SIMILAR TO
OTHER CASES WE HAVE SEEN.
TWO WOMEN AND TWO MEN.
ONE COUPLE GOT MARRIED OUTSIDE
THE STATE AND ONCE THAT MARRIAGE
WOULD BE RECOGNIZED IN THE STATE
OF TEXAS.
ANOTHER COUPLE WANTS THE STATE
OF TEXAS TO ALLOW THEM TO MARRY.
AS YOU KNOW, THERE IS A BAN ON
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.
A NUMBER OF STATES INCLUDING
TEXAS.
ALL OF THIS BUILDS UP THE
PRESSURE ON GETTING THE STREAM
COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER THERE IS
AN EQUAL PROTECTION QUESTION
HERE AND WHETHER PEOPLE CAN GET
MARRIED IN STATES WHERE THERE
BANS.
>> AGAIN, AS YOU POINT OUT AND
THIS IS POPPING UP AROUND THE
COUNTRY.
IT JUMPS OUT AT ME.
THIS IS TEXAS.
THIS IS THE SOUTH.
THIS MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT
DIFFERENT.
>> IT DOES MAKE IT DIFFERENT,
BUT REMEMBER THERE WAS ALSO A
CASE NOT TOO LONG AGO IN THE
STATE OF VIRGINIA.
SIMILAR TO THIS ARGUED BY TWO
WELL-KNOWN ATTORNEYS IN THIS
COUNTRY WHO HAD BEEN PUSHING
THIS ALL ALONG.
THE POINT IS PEPPERING THIS
AROUND THE COUNTRY.