joining me now is congressman jerry paulus a democrat from colorado.n fact that the first same-sex marriages in our country were right here in boulder, colorado, in 1975. the same year that i was born. and the clerk that did them back in '75, clela rorax, a young lady and our town clerk at the time, she celebrated at the steps of the boulder county courthouse along with me and hundreds of other people. what started in boulder, colorado, has become our constitutional right nationally. >> i can bet you're jubilant to say the least. we are learning about officials in some states and conservative groups starting to set up new legal battles based on religious freedom. what do you make of that as their argument to protect traditional marriage. >> each faith can define marriage in their own context and it's always been that way and will. for instance, catholics won't marry people who've been divorced, they won't marry people of the same sex, that's fine. i happen to be jewish, we have branches of reform judaism that has been doing same sex unions for decades,