Amendments Quote by William Rehnquist Download Open image “The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."” — William Rehnquist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amendments Equal Equal rights Equal rights amendment Equality Funny marriage Holy Rights Turns Wedlock
Marriage was created by the hand of God. No man, not even a Supreme Court, can undo what a holy God has instituted. — Michele Bachmann Copy Share Image
After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of… — Tim Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Biblical manuscripts are quite unequivocally clear on the issue of marriage and its definition. The law of the land may change, however the… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
While religious institutions should be able to pick and choose which unions they bless, civil governments should issue marriage licenses to all couples. — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to stop and breathe and look at how redefining marriage will have a hugely chilling effect on religious liberty in America. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, nevertheless, we'd recognize immediately. And same-sex marriage will be one of… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Short of the passage of a Constitutional Amendment protecting marriage as between one man and one woman, the U.S. Supreme Court has the final… — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
We told you this would happen, if gay marriage is legalized, then much chaos would follow. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage. — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
So now we're after a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a guy-and-gal thing. To the founders, this would have been like an amendment… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The "wall of separation between church and State" is a metaphor based on bad history. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
The Constitution requires that Congress treat similarly situated persons similarly, not that it engages in gestures of superficial equality. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
In any civilized society the most important task is achieving a proper balance between freedom and order. In wartime, reason and history both suggest… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
I may not be able to define pornography but I know it when I see it. — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
It is impossible to build sound constitutional doctrine upon a mistaken understanding of Constitutional history... The establishment clause has been expressly freighted with Jefferson's… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will… — William Rehnquist Copy Share Image
This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Anybody who pretends that how you read the 10th and 11th Amendment doesn't have a fundamental impact on the things we care about is… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I have a lot of guns on my ranch. I don't use them for hunting. I'm not a hunter. It's for protection. The Second… — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The First Amendment exists to protect our religious liberty--to ensure that all Americans are able to seek out worship God with all our hearts,… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize,... The people are confirmed by the next… — Tench Coxe Copy Share Image
The lessons of the First Amendment are as urgent in the modern world as the 18th Century when it was written. One timeless lesson… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
