Children Quote by Richard Posner

We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.

— Anthony Kennedy

I mean, there are lots of people who get married who can't have children. To take a state that does allow adoption and say-there,…

— Stephen Breyer

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…

— Henry Franklin Floyd

Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators,…

— Liz Cheney

I really can't imagine how anyone could, in good conscience, oppose the proposition that the states should be able to deny the status of…

— Charles T. Canady

The way that same-sex marriage should reach the federal level is that it absolutely should be decided by the Supreme Court as quickly as…

— Tony Kushner

We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it…

— Andrew Cuomo

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to…

— Lisa Murkowski

If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal…

— Barack Obama

Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states.

— Barack Obama

Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their…

— Kabir Bedi

Why do people - gay or straight - need the state's permission to marry? For most of Western history, they didn't, because marriage was…

— Stephanie Coontz