Marriage Equality Quotes - Page 2

• The momma bears are demanding, 'Protect our kids.'

  Gene Ward

  Kids, Bears, Momma

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• This issue has brought out the ugly in our society.

  Sharon Har

  Issues, Ugly, Our Society

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• I'm not here to promote your pride.

  Jo Jordan

  Pride

  "Exclusive: Why Rep. Jo Jordan voted against Marriage Equality". Interview by Diane Lee, www.honolulumagazine.com. November 8, 2013.

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• Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their biological children.

  Kristine G. Baker

  Sex, Children, Caring

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• I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people we want to love.

  Carrie Underwood

  Thinking, People, And Love

  "Carrie Underwood: US country queen speaks out for gay marriage – but how will conservative fans take it?" by Guy Adams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 08, 2012.

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• If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married?

  Mike Gabbard

  Three, Married, Mary

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• You want one civil war, brah?

  Tom Brower

  War, Civil War, Want

  "Hawaii House Advances Same-Sex Marriage Bill, Sets Final Vote For Friday" by Chad Blair and Nathan Eagle, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2013.

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• Make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God and I don't believe he makes mistakes, so I believe that being gay is not a sin and in fact it's how you're made.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Christian, Mistake, Believe

  "Joy Behar's Inner Rosie: Conservative Pols Who 'Use' Christianity Have 'Same Syndrome' as 9/11 Terrorists". Interview with Joy Behar, www.newsbusters.org. September 18, 2011.

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• I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family

  Drew Barrymore

  Growing Up, Gay, Who I Am

  "21 Celebrities Who Champion LGBTQ Rights" by Katie O'Malley, www.elle.com. June 22, 2016.

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• Although cohabitating same-sex couples are prohibited from jointly adopting children under Utah law as a result of the same-sex marriage ban, the record shows that nearly 3,000 Utah children are being raised by same-sex couples. Thus childrearing, a liberty closely related to the right to marry, is one exercised by same-sex and opposite-sex couples alike, as well as by single individuals.

  Carlos F. Lucero

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause same-sex couples to raise fewer children or impel married opposite-sex couples to raise more children. The Virginia Marriage Laws therefore do not further Virginia's interest in channeling children into optimal families, even if we were to accept the dubious proposition that same-sex couples are less capable parents.

  Henry Franklin Floyd

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is cruel as well as unconstitutional. Classifying some families, and especially their children, as of lesser value should be repugnant to all those in this nation who profess to believe in "family values."

  Stephen Reinhardt

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• Defendants' essential contention is that bans on same-sex marriage promote the welfare of children, by encouraging good parenting in stable opposite-sex families.... Defendants have presented no evidence of any such effect. Indeed, they cannot even explain the manner in which, as they predict, children of opposite-sex couples will be harmed. Their other contentions are equally without merit.

  Stephen Reinhardt

  Sex, Couple, Children

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• Once both gay marriage and marijuana are finally legal, those of you against them are not invited to the really fun parties I'm gonna throw.

  Zach Braff

  Fun, Party, Gay

  Twitter post from May 7, 2012

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• Marriage should not be a goal; it should be a choice. One choice available out of many recognized as valid by society. But it isn't. Not yet. Right now, as far as society is concerned, you are married or you are not yet married. And as that notion becomes further codified our freedom to make other choices steadily erodes.

  David McGee

  Goal, Choices, Erode

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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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• In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of when. I ask those who feel that giving freedom to others somehow binds you, to please take a good look at what you are standing behind.

  Russell Simmons

  Heart, Gay, Giving

  "It Is Not A Matter of If, But Only A Matter of When" by Russell Simmons, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2009.

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• I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect and anticipate their great shame and the shame in their grandchildren's eyes if they continue that way of support. We've got to have equal rights for everyone.

  Sean Penn

  Eye, Gay, Thinking

  Sean Penn's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 22, 2009.

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• Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's also very un-Christian, if you think about the way Christ was and Christ's teachings. This is not loving. This is anger. This is hatred. This is bigotry. And it's wrong.

  Margaret Cho

  Christian, Teaching, Thinking

  "Margaret Cho Has Gone 'PsyCHO': Talking Donald Trump, Surviving Rape & More" by Kevin Fallon, www.thedailybeast.com. September 25, 2015.

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• Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

  Jason Mraz

  Rights, Views, Needs

  "Singer Jason Mraz's mission in Africa". Interview with Anna Shcherbakova, www.cnn.com. June 28, 2010.

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• Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly stigmatizing and humiliating children who are being raised by the loving couples targeted by Virginia's Marriage Laws betrays that interest. E. S.-T. [the 15-year-old daughter of two of the plaintiffs], like the thousands of children being raised by same-sex couples, is needlessly deprived of the protection, the stability, the recognition and the legitimacy that marriage conveys.

  Arenda L. Wright Allen

  Daughter, Sex, Couple

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• Everybody in hip-hop discriminates against gay people. Matter of fact, the exact opposite word of 'hip-hop,' I think, is 'gay.' Like yo, you play a record and if it's wack, 'That's gay, dog!' And I wanna just come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, 'Yo, stop it, fam.'

  Kanye West

  Dog, Gay, Thinking

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• My mom has always been a big advocate, especially in the gay, lesbian, transsexual and bisexual community, so for me it's always been a part of my soul.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Mom, Gay, Bisexual

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• [Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being.

  Jay-Z

  Simple, Thinking, People

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• Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the President is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?

  Curtis Jackson

  Sex, President, Way

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