Marriage Laws Quotes
- The federal statute is invalid, for no legitimate purpose overcomes the purpose and effect to disparage and injure those whom the state, by its marriage… — Anthony Kennedy
- What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters — Alfred Russel Wallace
- Of course the welfare of our children is a legitimate state interest. However, limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples fails to further this interest. Instead, needlessly… — Arenda L. Wright Allen
- There is absolutely no reason to suspect that prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and refusing to recognize their out-of-state marriages will cause same-sex couples to… — Henry Franklin Floyd
- Marriage laws, the police, armies and navies are the mark of human incompetence. — Dora Russell