Bases Quote by Sonia Sotomayor

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 ability for employment benefits to be shared among spouses, the ability to move people who are dependent on visas for trailing spouses, all…

— Lloyd Blankfein

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 really think that people's right to happiness shouldn't be dictated by some policymaker in Washington, D.C. I've come to know a lot of…

— Jon Tester

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious…

— Ben Shapiro

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments ... to deny the…

— Ronnie Musgrove

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the…

— Jim Kolbe

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

I'm totally against straight marriage - even though I'm married. I don't think heterosexual marriage is any of the government's business.

— Penn Jillette

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

Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.

— David O. Russell

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining…

— Gus Van Sant