Gavin Newsom: “We decided that we were going to marry one couple, Phyllis…”

“I said, well, we need to do something about it. None of us knew what we were going to do. Came back, fast forward this a few days later, and We decided that we were going to marry one couple, Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin. They've been together some 47 years, and we were going to file a lawsuit, but word got out that we were going to do this, and the federal courts were …” (28:26–28:32)

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