Why Is Same-Sex Marriage Important?

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I hope that you were all paying attention to the debate over California's Proposition 8, which took away the right to marry from same-sex couples. At the time Keith Olberman, on his show "Countdown", devoted one of his special comments to the subject. Here is a straight man making the case for same-sex marriage with a passion and eloquence that one would hope that we could bring forth in the debate. I only wish that more people had heard this. Please listen.