in romer, what the court was looking at is what does the target to the class do? that is, how are you differentiating between these classes of individuals and are you differentiating to treat them unequally. if that is the situation, that is a very rare type of law. you can talk about semantics, but there is no question, looking at the text of amendment three and the other marriage discrimination laws, is that the only saying those laws did was target same-sex couples and make them unequally. none of those laws established the right to marry, gave benefits, or gave incentives. their only purpose and effect was to exclude same-sex couples from marriage and marriage recognition. >> why couldn't it be viewed as saying the only purpose and effect was developed i would has -- was to validate what has been in effect for eons. you want to be clear. his practice is the one that utah supports. period. >> your honor, when you have at least two statutes a constitutional amendment that is directed at excluding only one class of individuals from marriage, it is not to reaffirm

a walmart spokesperson says that's not true, romer was operating within federal regulations which require drivers to work no more than a 14-hour shift, 11 of them driving. yesterday 911 calls 40 am the crash were released. >> there is a terrible accident. the car flipped. it's on its side. i'm just calling it in. >> walmart says the truck involved in the accident had a system designed to slow the truck speed and warn the driver of traffic ahead. unclear if the system was working at the time of the crash. james "jimmy mack" mcnair was killed in the crash. morgan is improving. three others in the limo were also hurt. >> 5:08. you can file this under it could have been worse. firefighters looking into what caused a shuttle bus to catch fire at philadelphia international airport. look at this video sent to us by a viewer. this happened around 8:45 last night at the terminal e baggage claim on the arrival side. an airport spokesperson says the driver got out safely. no one else was on board. the road was shut down for a short time. >> from our south jersey bureau, cash stolen from a charity ev

the lawrence case, the romer case. this case could not have been brought without the cases that you person argued. so i -- it's not as though there's any claim that it suddenly, people woke up in 2008 and thought, you know, let's start thinking about lgbt writes. i think what happened was that proposition eight was a low point for many, many people. the idea that this could pass in california of all places, for some people it was just the kind of come it was like the last straw. if they can pass here, how can we -- >> host: there's no question and i think you capture abbottabad, and did the survey was devastating for lgbt californians and their friends and her family, people who care about civil rights, people across the country who care about civil rights. so absolutely important, but let's go back to that time. again, the question is not whether the issue was important. where does it fit, and it wasn't just the cases that i was involved in with rome are back in 1996 and lowers in 2003, but ongoing litigation to marri

romer, lawrence and windsor. when we worked on the case, i had a post-it on my computer, to remind me, taking off from the clinton presidential campaign that it's all about edie, stupid. but in this case it's all about kennedy, too. so his vote will be very important. >> roberta, thank you for your work and thank you for joining us. >> it's a pleasure. >>> up next on "ronan farrow daily," crossing party lines and making new friends. what the mississippi republican primary is telling us about how we can all get along. and right now, you might know the u.s. is playing germany for the right to advance in the world cup. it's got people glued to tvs all around the globe like in chicago where we'll have a live report. that's later in the show. nobody told us to expect it... intercourse that's painful due to menopausal changes. the problem isn't likely to go away... ...on its own. so it's time we do something about it. and there's help. premarin vaginal cream. a prescription that does what no over-the-counter product wa

the marriage issue as a good example -- well, okay, you know, there's -- go back a little, you know romer v. evans in 1996 an important supreme court decision about gay rights laws. lawrence v. texas in 2003, once and for all the elimination of sodomy statutes. and then last year the two cases, windsor and -- i'm blocking on the name of the other one, but two marriage cases that came to the supreme court. it's important, you know, that i mean if you read the rhetoric especially of the lawrence v. texas case, it can almost make you weep in the way that it talks about gay people and the right to privacy, the dignity of individuals and the like. at the same time i have to say -- i find myself saying all of those gay decisions are written by justice anthony kennedy. he becomes the key vote. justice anthony kennedy, who has contributed to the unraveling of affirmative action, the end, the unraveling of the voting rights act of 1965 the -- i mean, you can go issue after issue where -- >> campaign finance. >> yeah, campaign finance. and so on the one hand, on a gay issue anthony kennedy is absol

the marriage issue as a good example -- well, okay, you know, there's -- go back a little, you know, romer evans in 1996, an important supreme court decision about gay rights laws. lawrence v. texas in 2003, once and for all the elimination of sodomy statutes. and then last year the two cases, windsor and -- i'm blocking on the name of the other one, but two marriage cases that came to the supreme court. it's important, you know, that, i mean, if you read the rhetoric especially of the lawrence v. texas case, it can almost make you weep in the way that it talks about gay people and the right to privacy, the dignity of individuals and the like. at the same time, i have to say -- i find myself saying all of those gay decisions are written by justice anthony kennedy. he becomes the key vote. justice anthony kennedy, who has contributed to the unraveling of affirmative action, the end, the unraveling of the voting rights act of 1965, the -- i mean, you can go issue after issue where -- >> campaign finance. >> yeah, campaign finance. and so on the one hand, on a gay issue anthony kennedy is abs