Activity Quote by Dale Peck

My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into.…

— Dick Cheney

“They're not a question of additional benefits. I mean, they touch every aspect of life. Your partner is sick. Social Security. I mean, it's…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

If a relationship does not promote a state's legitimate interests, there is no reason a state should sanction it.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to…

— Samuel Richardson

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

— Frederic Bastiat

It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to…

— Annie Laurie Gaylor

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

— Corrine Brown

“This is what happens when the state intervenes in a person’s private life; it creates two separate personas. It compels you either to lead…

— Manal al-Sharif

Let's be honest, half the marriages end in divorce. For me, it's never made much sense. I have a girlfriend and I'm not interested…

— Bill Maher

Using the existence of a marriage license to determine when the state should protect interpersonal relationships is increasingly impractical.

— Stephanie Coontz

“Why should love require a contract? Why put yourself into the clutches of the state and give it power over you? Why invite lawyers…

— Robert Silverberg

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage…

— John Sentamu