Marriage Equality Quotes - Page 2

• We stand with President Obama - love doesn't have a color, love doesn't care if you're gay or straight. Love doesn't discriminate.

  Antonio Villaraigosa

  Gay, Color, President

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

  Gene Ward

  Kids, Bears, Momma

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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 have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Today, Lifelong, Passages

  "Gay Marriage Bill Passes In New York; Governor Cuomo Signs Same Sex Marriage Bill Into Law", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2011.

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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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• I feel that at this point in our country's history, it is important that we not reverse marriage equality, that we not reverse Roe v. Wade, that we stand up against Citizens United, we stand up for the rights of people in the workplace, that we stand up and basically say: The Supreme Court should represent all of us. That's how I see the court, and the kind of people that I would be looking to nominate to the court would be in the great tradition of standing up to the powerful, standing up on behalf of our rights as Americans.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Powerful, Rights

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

  Hillary Clinton

  Wade, Want, Sticks

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the second 2016 Trump-Clinton presidential debate at Washington University in St. Louis, www.nytimes.com. October 9, 2016.

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• I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights, and we deserve them." As a model of activism, it's so wonderful what the community has been able to achieve towards goals like marriage equality.

  Jill Stein

  Thinking, Rights, Goal

  Source: www.pqmonthly.com

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• I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Hate, Voice, Want

  "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I'll tell you what gives me hope. After the struggle for marriage equality, the LGBTQ community has built some very powerful organizations; in particular, I'm thinking of HRC (the Human Rights Campaign), GLAAD... but there are many, many others, too. Along with those organizations come some savvy and tested leaders who have come to understand not only how to change hearts and minds but also legislators and judges votes.

  Steven Petrow

  Powerful, Struggle, Heart

  "Civilities: We'll be talking about your reactions to the Orlando massacre for the full hour". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. June 21, 2016.

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• Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?

  Darryl Pinckney

  Rights, Class, Issues

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.

  Henry Rollins

  Sex, Thinking, Years

  "Henry Rollins: Gay Marriage Is Punk Rock" by Henry Rollins, www.laweekly.com. December 20, 2012.

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• Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us?

  Henry Rollins

  Games, Long, Care

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• There are moments where history is made... This is one of those moments.

  David M. Louie

  Moments, Made

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• How many more gay people must God create until we realize that he wants them here?

  Kaniela Ing

  Gay, People, Want

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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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• As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.

  Colin Powell

  Couple, Gay, Able

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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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• 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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• The first question for me is: Are same-sex unions ‘marriages’? I’m against discrimination, I’m against hatred, I’m in favor of marriage equality, but I don’t think same-sex marriage is marriage. Therefore I think it is wrong for the government to insist, through the use of law, that we all believe that same-sex unions are marriages.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Sex, Believe, 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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• Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans, not just some. Utah's ban on marriage equality does nothing to strengthen or protect any marriage. Instead, it singles out thousands of loving Utah families for unfair treatment simply because of who they are. Our Constitution does not allow for such blatant discrimination.

  Chad Griffin

  Utah, Rights, Decision

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• I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay.

  Lady Gaga

  Gay, Together, Fans

  "Everything about Lady Gaga is gay: the MTV quote of the day". MTV news staff, www.mtv.com. August 13, 2009.

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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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• 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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