Gay Marriage Quotes - Page 6

• Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

  Gus Van Sant

  Religious, Jobs, Gay

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• Gay marriage will destroy the family

  Pope Francis

  Gay

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• Really, darling, it's a no-brainer. You know, I understand not everybody is for gay marriage. But if you're not for gay marriage, don't marry a gay person. That's what I say

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Gay, Darling, Persons

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• Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].

  Charlize Theron

  Country, Sleep, Gay

  "Charlize Theron: I Won’t Get Married Until My Gay Friends Can", www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2009.

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• Everybody has the right to marry the person they love and be represented as a couple and family... It's something that people will look back on in years to come and say, 'I can't believe it took so long for us to recognize this.' It'll be like segregation and giving women the right to vote.

  Julianne Moore

  Couple, Believe, Gay

  "Julianne Moore Articulates Why The Fight For LGBT Rights Doesn’t End With Marriage Equality" by Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2015.

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• Why are they making rules that say my lover can stay in the United States if they're foreign or share my health care benefits because I'm straight - but if you're gay, you can't have that?

  Natalie Portman

  Gay, United States, Benefits

  "Scarlett Johansson And Natalie Portman On Monogamy And The Elections". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• It breaks my heart to know that millions of gay Americans still can’t marry the one they love, and I can. That makes no sense.

  Kristen Bell

  Heart, Gay, Break

  "Kristen Bell Speaks Out For Gay Marriage: Actress Joins HRC Campaign". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• Unlike abortion nobody gets hurt when gays marry but it does have deep implications for what kind of society we want to be. Therefore, individual states should decide the question.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Hurt, Gay, Abortion

  "Bill O'Reilly: The politics of gay marriage" by Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2012.

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• It is not wrong or bigoted to believe American society is stronger and that the family unit is better served when marriage is between a man and a woman. It is also not wrong for homosexual Americans to want to get as much parity as they can.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Believe, Gay, Men

  "Bill O'Reilly: A big victory for traditional forces". www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2012.

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• Justice has often been forged from fires of indignities and prejudices suffered. Our triumphs that celebrate the freedom of choice are hallowed. We have arrived upon another moment in history when 'We the People' becomes more inclusive, and our freedom more perfect.

  Arenda L. Wright Allen

  Gay, Fire, People

  "Read the Incredibly Moving Opinion From the Judge Who Just Struck Down Virginia’s Gay-Marriage Ban" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. February 14, 2014.

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• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Responsibility, Gay, Lunch

  "Gay Marriage and the Law" by Nick Traverse, www.newyorker.com. October 2, 2010.

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• It's about time that we create first class citizenship for every American plain and simple. Every New Jersey-ian. This should not be a popular vote. This is something we should do now.

  Cory Booker

  Gay, Simple, Popular Vote

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• As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?'

  Jim Kolbe

  Gay, Grandchildren, Who Cares

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• My friends, welcome to the other side of the rainbow.

  Ed Murray

  Gay, Rainbow, Sides

  "Washington state legalizes same-sex marriage". www.sfgate.com. February 14, 2012.

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• I'm a UFC fighter, a macho-type sport. I am a heterosexual guy in a tough macho sport, which is exactly the reason I feel a duty to say I support gay marriage and gay rights. I have nothing to gain personally from supporting this issue, and that's the point. Society as a whole is better when there is equality, and I want to live in a country where everyone has the same rights because we all benefit from that.

  Rashad Evans

  Sports, Country, Gay

  "UFC Fighter Rashad Evans Comes Out In Support Of Gay Marriage" by Jim Budzinski, www.businessinsider.com. March 13, 2013,.

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• A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness.

  Kenneth Faried

  Gay, People, Happiness And Love

  "Kenneth Faried, Denver Nuggets Star, Supports Gay Marriage And His Two Moms", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I certainly support the right of the gay brothers and sisters to come together. I believe true love can take a number of different forms. If they choose to be married that's fine, but the important thing is I hope they find love

  Cornel West

  Brother, Believe, Gay

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• If you don't believe me, did you happen to notice that all that's being asked for is the right to be married, which ironically promotes commitment, family and love.

  Mo'Nique Imes-Jackson

  Believe, Commitment, Gay

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• To deny an entire group of people the ability to be legal couples is anti-American and anti-freedom. As a devoted husband and father of two, I can't imagine the state of Minnesota not recognizing my love for my wife Isabelle. We would welcome and respect the equal rights for gays to experience the same joy and privileges of marriage that we do.

  Chris Kluwe

  Couple, Husband, Father

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• On a serious note, I stand by Obama on marriage equality! I believe ALL families deserve the same rights

  Connor Barwin

  Believe, Gay, Rights

  Twitter post from May 09, 2012

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• Since I was born I remember my dad and my mom always embracing diversity and differences among people and that being the core of America and happiness and all those different things. And that goes along with equality and you should treat everybody equal and be fair and not judge people and dislike people because they are different, and embrace and enjoy people because of the differences they have.

  Connor Barwin

  Mom, Dad, Gay

  "Houston Texan Connor Barwin on marriage equality, his gay brother and NFL culture". Interview with Jim Buzinski, www.outsports.com. June 11, 2012.

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• It is my saddest day as an MP when my party brings in a bill which I'm fundamentally opposed to. I'm very sad my party has brought this in without any democratic mandate.

  Peter Bone

  Party, Gay, Mps

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• I believe my party should never flinch from the requirement that we must continue this progression, otherwise we may end up like the Republican party who lost an election last year that they could have won were it not for their socially conservative agenda. We may have gone two steps forward, but I fear we may have gone one step backwards. The modernisation of the Conservative party is not yet complete.

  Margot James

  Party, Believe, Gay

  "Gay marriage debate: Tory MP warns party not to follow the Republican road" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2013.

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• There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

  Anthony Kennedy

  Gay, Years, Substance

  "“A Historic Moment”: California Couple on Decades-Long Legal Struggle for Marriage Equality". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• ... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don't think it should exist.

  Masha Gessen

  Lying, Fighting, Gay

  "But it’s all about equality, right?" by Mark Powell, www.spectator.com.au. August 31, 2017.

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