april deboer is a legal stranger to her son and jane rouse is a legal stranger to her own daughter. it also brings the loss of important economic resources, we have lists all those. it brings psychological injury. we had a doctor explain that no matter how confident, how devoted, how caring that second parent is from the child's perspective, some children will suffer from an am bigous socially unrecognized seemingly nonpermanent relationship with the second parent. in a majority of the supreme court added more in sinned sore. they humiliate children. they devalue same-sex couple families in comparison with their opposite sex counterparts. the injury is especially unjust, especially cruel for our plaintiffs. they took them in. >> these arguments seem really powerful if you get heightened scrutiny and maybe dispositive, but do they survive a rational basis review? >> on a rational basis, we think it flunks on a rational basis. the test would be it requires a connection between the purpose and the law itself. that connection is missing here. first of all, the mother/father rational. th

april deboer is a legal stranger to her son and jane rouse is a legal stranger to her own daughter. it also brings the loss of important economic resources, we have lists all those. it brings psychological injury. we had a doctor explain that no matter how confident, how devoted, how caring that second parent is from the child's perspective, some children will suffer from an am bigous socially unrecognized seemingly nonpermanent relationship with the second parent. in a majority of the supreme court added more in sinned sore. they humiliate children. they devalue same-sex couple families in comparison with their opposite sex counterparts. it brings shame to these children. the injury is especially unjust, especially cruel for our plaintiffs. a nicu nurse, an emergency room nurse taking in the babies that were left behind, a premature infant in an incubator struggling to live, special needs children, hard to place children, children of color, foster children, they took them in. >> these arguments seem really powerful if you get heightened scrutiny and maybe dispositive, t do they sur