comparedtators have this to decisions such as plessey and brown and their significant to the african- american community. how do you think the court will weigh the legacy of those cases in their decision? three great questions. the panelists all answer however they want. anti laws or recognized as a to the traditional understanding of marriage. they were phrased that way. were in positions and a restriction on top of what marriages. by contrast this has adhered into what marriage always has been. it involves a radical redefinition to say it is not a male/female union. >> the questions involved the idea that the federal government has a long history of incentivizing marriage which is complicated. the basic posture of the federal government has been not to do anything about marriage except except state decisions. there are some benefits that help married families and windows and things like that. there are some taxes that go up. marriage it encourages economically is the complicated questions. why should whatever that is applied to people who want to marry their family members, wise? wh