So you will be always remembered for among other things the decision you wrote to legalize uh gay marriage. >> For me the important and perhaps deciding factor was the children. We were amazed to find that at first it looked like 75,000 children were adopted by gay parents and then it turned out they were in the hundreds of thousands.And these children uh were in states that did not allow gay marriage. If the child was sick, only the adopting parent, not the not the spouse, could come to see the child in th ...