Marriage equality is "a threat to the nation's survival in…

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

— Trent Franks

“Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It’s a boon to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It’s for all of us.”

— Rebecca Solnit

It not only is a complete undermining of the principles of family and marriage and the hope of future generations, but it completely begins…

— Trent Franks

Vote like your nation's survival depends on it... because it does.

— Randi Rhodes

The human community is evolving... . We can survive anything you care to mention. We are supremely equipped to survive, to adapt and even…

— Doris Lessing

To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival…

— Ayn Rand

“The thought that the Mayan culture managed to calculate the Earth’s passing through the plane of the Milky Way galaxy never failed to fascinate…

— Jody Summers

We physicians have focused on the nuclear threat as the singular issue of our era. We are not indifferent to other human rights and…

— Bernard Lown

That's what civilization sometimes did to threats, real or perceived. They walled them off. Us against them. Survival of the fittest. You die so…

— David Baldacci

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret…

— John F. Kennedy

We forget today that Britain still depends for its livelihood and, indeed, its day-to-day survival, on the sea. But the Royal Navy is now…

— John Keegan

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…

— Stephen Reinhardt

I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any…

— Drew Barrymore

“the left had been finessing labels for years: racial preferences to affirmative action to diversity; abortion rights to pro-choice to reproductive rights; global warming…

— Jack Cashill

But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between…

— Sally Kohn