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By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition.


Antonin Scalia

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DENNIS PRAGER Same sex marriage is not an expression of human right but human wrong. Any nation that rationalizes ...
SYLLABUS ONAJOBI I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.
CASS SUNSTEIN The state of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts is strong.
GARY BUSECK Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriag...
MITT ROMNEY The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress...
TRENT FRANKS I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I be...
STEPHEN HARPER I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
STEPHEN HARPER The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriag...
TED CRUZ If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exis...
JAMES DOBSON We do not ask those in traditional marriages to re-register their marriage in every jurisdiction to ...
JOE GRABARZ The state has failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to ...
MARGARET MARSHALL I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
MANNY PACQUIAO There was no right to same-sex marriage before Measure 36, and there is no right to same-sex marriag...
CHARLES FLETCHER How can two gay guys be in favor of legal same-sex marriage and huge fans of the traditional family ...
DAN SAVAGE Same-sex marriage is not the final nail in the coffin for traditional marriage. It is just another r...
BEN SHAPIRO Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human ri...
STOCKWELL DAY Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman is not anti-gay: it is pro-traditiona...
MARCO RUBIO Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions; religious institutions have c...
DASHANNE STOKES The first marriage for a man is a big lesson, the second a grave blunder, the third a fatal accident...
ANUJ SOMANY We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it i...
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JAMES DOBSON [The] decision brings to an end years of wasted court resources brought about by a fringe group of p...
JENNIFER PIZER There are definite political ramifications to a court-imposed same-sex marriage.
JOSEPH FUITEN Same-sex marriage is not the future.
MAGGIE GALLAGHER The court held that legislators must demonstrate a specific, individualized harm in order to challen...
LENA AYOUB But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridicu...
GARRET DILLAHUNT Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every ...
KEITH O'BRIEN Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider soc...
KEITH O'BRIEN In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.
ANONYMOUS In 2015, an opera opened about me and Justice Antonin Scalia. It's called 'Scalia/Ginsburg.&...
RUTH BADER GINSBURG The majority of people in this county and state believe in traditional marriage values. We know it's...
MICHAEL LEWIS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
MARY CHENEY failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex coupl...
DARYN KAGAN I really can't imagine how anyone could, in good conscience, oppose the proposition that the sta...
CHARLES T. CANADY Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heteros...
TED OLSON If we change the definition of marriage to be more inclusive, then it is logical to argue that we sh...
JACK KINGSTON We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there ...
ENDA KENNY Amending the state constitution may be the only way to prevent activist judges from destructively re...
BILL SCRANTON Life's irony;Sex is an event that should be practiced exclusively inside marriage,but most times the...
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WENDY LONG I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
JOEL OSTEEN Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
JERRY FALWELL Not one piece of testimony on behalf of this measure has been able to demonstrate how amending the V...
DYANA MASON All government programs should comply with state law. Michigan law expressly prohibits marriage subs...
DALE SCHOWENGERDT [The church believes abortion is a violation of God's law and takes the] biblical view of marriage, ...
BARRY MCCARTY Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it n...
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.
HERMAN CAIN You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husban...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN When one person in a marriage is going to the Internet to get sex, it erodes the intimacy in the mar...
JENN BERMAN I was totally surprised by the spread of the legalization of same-sex marriage. In just my lifetime ...
JOHN NAISBITT They recognized the importance of the same-sex marriage decision. We're a bit of an egalitarian stat...
JOSEPH FUITEN If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is...
GARY BAUER Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the lev...
SAMUEL JOHNSON If you have small-government, traditional values, you may be considered by your own leadership to be...
MONICA CROWLEY He was a supporter of abortion until he ran for governor. He opposed the Ohio Marriage Amendment and...
CARLO LOPARO Every marriage, every family, has its mysteries.
LIANE MORIARTY If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do:
You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I think same-sex marriage is an issue that won't be settled soon, nor will the need to change public...
BOB MOULD I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affo...
TODD AKIN We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex c...
EVAN WOLFSON We need uniform protection of traditional marriage. You can't have different definitions on some...
ERNEST ISTOOK A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Life's irony;One of the biggest terminator of sex is marriage,in life most times marriage kills sex,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Clearly, looking at the 2004 presidential election the issue of same-sex marriage resonated with Afr...
LAMELL MCMORRIS Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagre...
PAM BONDI Judicial imposition of same-sex marriage seems to be on the horizon. We also oppose efforts to strip...
EDWARD WHELAN Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the pe...
RANDY NEUGEBAUER I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one...
GLENN GREENWALD I believe in traditional marriage.
KARL ROVE I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relation...
HILLARY CLINTON Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.
JEB BUSH Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced ...
JOHN SUNUNU Life's irony;Almost every person in life loves sex,but we hide our desire for sex under the guise of...
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WILLIAM STAFFORD That wife is an enemy to her husband who is given in marriage against her will.
UNKNOWN Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?
CURTIS JACKSON Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endure...
BERTRAND RUSSELL The deeper you go in ministry, the more the enemy wants to be an irritant in your marriage.
KEVIN THOMAN Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent ...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER I think people should be authentic and who they are. If that calls people to same-sex attraction and...
CHRIS GIBSON I will not officiate over a same-sex marriage or civil union. That goes against all of God's teachin...
JEFF POWELL Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage - whateve...
KABIR BEDI We are the books we read and the things we love.
CATH CROWLEY You should give up sarcasm. People could get the wrong idea about you.
MICHAEL PRYOR I know exactly who I am, what I'm about and who I will become.
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