Believe Quote by John Sentamu

Marriage is a public good, not just a private relationship. We have a public stake in healthy marriages and two-parent families. Our society suffers…

— William J Doherty

The institution of marriage holds society together. We can't replace the family.

— Tim Huelskamp

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law .…

— Joseph Story

I believe people ought to be treated fairly under the law. I see no reason why if the marriage contract conveys certain things that…

— Rand Paul

Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but…

— Clarence Thomas

Marriage is the agreement to let a family happen.

— Betty Jane Wylie

Marriage is the basic building block of civilization. We are redefining it at our own peril.

— Hank Hanegraaff

It seems clear to me that marriage ought to be constituted by children, and relations not involving children ought to be ignored by the…

— Bertrand Russell

Marriage is a great institution. No family should be without it.

— Mae West

The marriage-based society...discourages all the competing alternatives to marriage. You can't have a marriage-based society and a social value of sexual freedom. They don't…

— Scott Lively

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined…

— Keith O'Brien