Same-sex marriage at court: 5 things learned  Comment by Justice
Kagan causes gasp in court  By Bill Mears CNN Supreme Court
Producer  UPDATED 7:47 AM EDT Mar 28, 2013 Support for same-sex
marriage growing  The question of same-sex marriage went again
before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday in the last of two
oral arguments this week in separate appeals.  This session
dealt with the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by Congress in
1996. It said, in part, that legally married same-sex couples
cannot enjoy the range of financial and other benefits enjoyed
by heterosexual married couples.  Here are five things we
learned from arguments in this case:  1. Opening the gateways  A
Supreme Court justice is sometimes like a fussy 8-year-old. She
must eat her peas before any dessert. The dessert, of course, in
the same sex-marriage cases are the constitutional "equal
protection questions" -- the ones that get to the heart of
defining what marriage is all about, the ones the entire nation
wants answered.  But Wednesday