this my twin brother, elliot perry. we're two of chris and sandy's very, very proud sons.behalf of myself, and my twin brother, i just want to say how incredibly proud we are of our parents. we love them. we love our family. and we look forward to the day when we will be treated equally just like our neighbors' families. thank you so much. >> that's pretty good. welcome back to "hardball." today the plaintiffs in hollingsworth, perry v. perry, more commonly known as the prop 8 case, showed what a family rooted in same-sex marriage actually looks like. it was impossible to miss the love there those two kids had for their parents, their mothers. political movements in reaction to them. for example, three key supreme court rulings in the 1950s, '60s and '70s had significant influence in building today's republican coalition. take brown versus board of education back in 1954. the civil rights decision helped shift the south to republican party. the 1962 supreme court decision banning organized prayer in public schools sparked the creation of the moral majority. and roev. wade,

elliot and dr. cox, well... ohh! needless to say, there were consequences. [squeaks] perry, great news.h, hells bells, bob-o. if you wanna fire me, just do it. i would, but even though this room was quite crowded when you sucker-punched me, apparently nobody saw it happen. [chuckles] uh, saw what happen, sir? [squeaking] so, dr. cox, can you, uh, look at her chart? newbie, did you not see what just happened? kelso is so far up my ass that i can taste brill cream in the back of my throat, and, you, you're-- you're a third-year now. wake up. this whole "dr. cox riding in to the rescue" part of the show is over. [pager beeping] no, you're on your own. j.d.: elliot's unlucky streak continued with the head of the radiology department. dr. moyer, uh, you told me my patient had colitis, and it turns out it was just traveler's diarrhea. so? that sounds like good news. yeah. he took it as bad news, maybe 'cause of the unnecessary colonoscope i shoved 3 feet up his pooper? what do you want me to do? uh, a-apologize to my patient and tell him it was your mistake, no big deal? think i'm gonna pass

. >> name is spencer perry and this is my twin brother elliot and we ar two of chris and sandfy's very proud sons. i just want to say how incredibly proud we are of our parents. we love them. we love our family and we look forward to the day when we will be treated equally just like our neighbors families. thank you so much. [applause] dave and and i will be willing to answer some questions but it is very important to introduce chad griffin of the human rights campaigner who has been with this case right from the beginning, right from the very start a parallel he recruited me and together we recruited david boyce to handle this case. it has been almost four years since a brief filed the case and 4.5 years has since we first met and started talking about what we would do in this case. say agriffin, i cannot number -- and of wonderful things about the things he has done for the rights of gay and lesbian citizens and what the american foundation of the equal rights which has supported this campaign and a human rights campaign have done for equal rights for gay and lesbian citizens. chad?