California Quote by Anthony Kennedy

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

Not much about California, on its own preferred terms, has encouraged its children to see themselves as connected to one another.

— Joan Didion

In New Jersey, judges have ruled that a same-sex couple or a single person applying to adopt must be given the same place in…

— Orson Bean

After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department…

— Jerry Brown

For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal…

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

In Berkeley, California is no sense of the "white way being the right way." Parents also come in every variety - mixed race marriages,…

— Julia Scheeres

I do not think our priorities are misplaced when we are looking at creating a whole new class of children from these gay marriages…

— James Inhofe

Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And…

— Dan Savage

“I don’t really care if their parents are same sex, lesbian or gay, straight, married, cohabitating, divorced, bi-racial or what. If they love and…

— Teresa Reasor

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 can't produce…

— Richard Posner

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with…

— Armistead Maupin

Gay adoption is discrimination against children

— Pope Francis