Traditional Marriage Quotes

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  A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Relationship, Anniversary

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.32, BookBaby

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• I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Rights, Community

  "Obama in 2004: 'I Don't Think Marriage Is a Civil Right'" by Daniel Halper, www.weeklystandard.com. May 8, 2012.

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• I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

  Herman Cain

  Believe, Defense, Traditional

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• Out of control judicial activism threatens traditional marriage in America.

  Ernest Istook

  America, Activism, Judicial

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• I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Unions, Privilege

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• Traditional marriage in the platform is the essential building block to our civilization.

  Ken Blackwell

  Block, Civilization, Essentials

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

  George W. Bush

  Crazy, Believe, Men

  "Fox News Sunday" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2003.

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• You know, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.

  Carly Fiorina

  Crazy, Believe, Men

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• I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix.

  Barack Obama

  Christian, Believe, Gay

  Speech at the Saddleback Presidential Candidates Forum, transcripts.cnn.com. August 16, 2008.

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• Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Love, Funny, Marriage

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Way, Married, Traditional

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• If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

  James Dobson

  Law, Land, Institutions

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• I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that if you want to marry another woman that you can do that and have a contract. But the thing is is the religious connotation of marriage that has been going on for thousands of years, I still want to preserve that. And you probably could have both. You could have both traditional marriage, which I believe in. And then you could also have the neutrality of the law that allows people to have contracts with another.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Believe, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• There's never been a civilization, ever in history, that has embraced homosexuality and turned away from traditional fidelity and traditional marriage, traditional child rearing, and has survived.

  Pat Roberts

  Children, Civilization, Homosexuality

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• Being a housewife, makes women sick.It may therefore be that married women say they are happy because they are sick.To be happy in a relationship which imposes so many impediments on her, as traditional marriage does, women must be slightly mentally ill

  Jessie Bernard

  Sick, Doe, May

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• I'm an old-fashioned person and I happen to believe in traditional marriage.

  John Kasich

  Believe, Old Fashioned, Persons

  John Kasich at the Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• If support for traditional marriage is bigotry, then Barack Obama was a bigot until just before the 2012 election.

  Marco Rubio

  Support, Election, Barack

  "Rubio dives into gay marriage debate" by Burgess Everett, www.politico.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

  Steve Chabot

  Men, People, Generations

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• I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

  Halle Berry

  Romantic, Want, Hopeless

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• If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

  Andrew Breitbart

  Strong, Argument, Social

  Source: www.newsbusters.org

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• We've arrived at a point where the President of the United States is going to lead a war on traditional marriage.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War, Stupid, President

  "Rush Limbaugh: Obama Leading ‘A War On Traditional Marriage’" By Jack Mirkinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2012.

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• In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

  Alveda King

  Homosexual Marriage, League, Abortion

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• A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

  Coretta Scott King

  Sex, Gay, Amendments

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• I repeat to you-my own view is, is that if a State-if people decide to-what they do in the privacy of their house, consenting adults should be able to do. This is America. It's a free society, but it doesn't mean we have to redefine traditional marriage.

  George W. Bush

  Mean, Gay, Views

  George W. Bush “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, George W. Bush, 2004, Book 2, July 1 to September 30, 2004”, Government Printing Office

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• The complete destruction of traditional marriage and the nuclear family is the 'revolutionary or utopian' goal of feminism.

  Kate Millett

  Goal, Feminism, Nuclear Families

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