mr. byrd. clicks thank you, mr. chief justice. may it please the court, court, respondents are not saying we are not ready. they are echoing questions that justice breyer was asking how to define marriage, about who gets to decide that question the people acting through the democratic process with the federal court and we are asking to affirm every individual fundamental liberty interest in deciding the meaning of marriage in this whole case turns on the question -- >> know what is taking that away from anybody. refuse not to marry. talking about the fundamental liberty interest clicks i thought i i thought i heard the answer to the question being given 2000 years of the democratic ballot box quite simple. what i heard was marriage is fundamental. certainly that is true. and marriage as the states administer it is open to vast numbers of people who both have children, adopt children, don't have children call of the place. there is one group of people whom they will not open marriage to. they have no possibility to participate in t

. >> mr. byrd. >> respondents are not saying we're not ready yet.oing questions just as i was asking. the cases and how to define marriage. it is who gets to decide the question. the people in the democratic process or the federal court that we are asking you to affirm every individual's fundamental liberty interest in deciding the meaning of marriage. the whole case turns on questions -- >> nobody's taken that away from everybody. every individual in the society chooses their orientation or who to marry or not mary. i suspect even with a scathing gay rights to marry that there is some lesbian gay people who will decide not to. some people who are heterosexual choose not to marry. >> we're talking about the fundamental liberty in deciding the question of what marriage means. >> i thought i heard the answer to the question being given in respect to tradition of 2000 years in the democratic ballot boxes so forth is quite simple. what i heard was marriage is fundamental. that is true for 10,000 years. and marriage as the states administer it. to vast n

mr. stein, here's what bothers me lyndon johnson said without republicans, there is no passage of the civil rights act, voting rights act. >> right. >> 64-65. future democratic leader in the senate robert byrd filibustered the bill al gore's father wasn't there, bill clinton's mentor j. william fullbright all of these men voted against it. but most people don't know this. >> no. >> how did this become a republican problem. >> exactly. i mean i know the gop is called the stupid party, the idea that republicans can have the confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous. it's a democratic flag. the states that seceded during the civil war were all democrat states that's their flag the racist states until the 1960s were racist states. the democratic party was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the english speaking world. it's the only one that survived into the 21st century. canadiens didn't do it australians didn't do it the democratic party and the states they controlled did it. it's their flag hillary clinton had it on campaign bumper stickers when she ran for president in 2008. you mentioned robert c. byrd sean. bill clinton was doing ku klux klan jokes