Defendants have not explained how allowing same-sex marriage between two consenting adults will at all prevent heterosexual spouses from caring for their… — Kristine G. Baker Copy Share Image
But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false… — Sally Kohn Copy Share Image
I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
There's certain issues, as I say in my speeches, that I'm not going to compromise on; I'm not going to compromise on… — Patrick Murphy Copy Share Image
[Marriage] a bond for life, and whether you're gay or straight, it makes no difference to being married. What marriage stands for… — Cheryl Cole Copy Share Image
Obama, congratulations on being the first sitting President to support marriage equality. Feels like the future, and not the past. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
I think, for one, the LGBTQ community is just a paragon of leadership, of standing up and saying "these are our rights,… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
“As he travels the country, he has hardened his positions, delighting the base of his party but moving farther from the positions… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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,… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Something as important as marriage equality, which is now a constitutional right [in the USA], is something that cannot be denied. It's… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter… — Tim Johnson Copy Share Image
In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem.… — Scott Fujita Copy Share Image
Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
In my heart, I know that marriage equality for every human being isn't a question of if, but only a matter of… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what gives me hope. After the struggle for marriage equality, the LGBTQ community has built some very powerful organizations;… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
...We're people and we're different, all of us. And we should be using our differences to bring ourselves closer together. You know?… — Justin Timberlake Copy Share Image
The reality is that Hillary Clinton has been a steadfast supporter of LGBT equality. She has evolved on the issue of LGBT… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
Doing difficult things like passing marriage equality, passing the Dream Act, doing common sense things that allow new American immigrants to fully… — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Gorsuch showed his true colors to the LGBTQ community when, in one of his first dissenting opinions on the high court, he… — Sarah McBride Copy Share Image
My God loves everybody, and if yours doesn't, that's your prerogative, but don't tell me how to live my life and don't… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples… — Richard Posner Copy Share Image
This president Barack Obama has done more for the LGBT community than any president in history. It's just an objective fact. And… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“the left had been finessing labels for years: racial preferences to affirmative action to diversity; abortion rights to pro-choice to reproductive rights;… — Jack Cashill Copy Share Image
Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Although cohabitating same-sex couples are prohibited from jointly adopting children under Utah law as a result of the same-sex marriage ban, the… — Carlos F. Lucero Copy Share Image
From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
It's a facet of the gay rights movement that people don't think about enough. Why suddenly marriage equality? Because it wasn't until… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business… — Jon Tester Copy Share Image
We are delighted with today’s State Supreme Court ruling allowing marriage equality in California. It is a true testament to advancing equality… — Karen Bass Copy Share Image