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failed to identify any constitutionally adequate reason for denying civil marriage to same-sex couples.


Daryn Kagan

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MARGARET MARSHALL It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as...
TODD AKIN Not one piece of testimony on behalf of this measure has been able to demonstrate how amending the V...
DYANA MASON This amendment would bar the legal recognition for civil unions, domestic partnerships or life partn...
LARRY FRANKEL After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions pre...
BOB CASEY, JR. We've seen a steady improvement in the number of people who support marriage equality for same-sex c...
EVAN WOLFSON We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there ...
ENDA KENNY We at this church will not perform the civil unions of same-sex couples because it would be un-Bibli...
DAVID BERGEN The court held that legislators must demonstrate a specific, individualized harm in order to challen...
LENA AYOUB I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relation...
HILLARY CLINTON Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions; religious institutions have c...
DASHANNE STOKES I will not officiate over a same-sex marriage or civil union. That goes against all of God's teachin...
JEFF POWELL There was no right to same-sex marriage before Measure 36, and there is no right to same-sex marriag...
CHARLES FLETCHER However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and ...
ADAM RICKITT If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is...
GARY BAUER I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affo...
TODD AKIN It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.
MARY CHENEY Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heteros...
TED OLSON I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be...
HAROLD FORD, JR. I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it...
BOB CASEY, JR. Same-sex marriage is not the future.
MAGGIE GALLAGHER I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
WILKIE COLLINS There are definite political ramifications to a court-imposed same-sex marriage.
JOSEPH FUITEN Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.'...
DENNIS PRAGER He cannot claim to support fair and equal legal protections for same-sex couples, ... and veto the v...
MARK LENO Someone could always do that. But that's what the affirmation document is, and it puts the onus on t...
DOUG JOHNSTONE If there were losses suffered by Mr. Kimberly, an adequate civil remedy is available to Mr. Kimberly...
JOHN PECK [The] decision brings to an end years of wasted court resources brought about by a fringe group of p...
JENNIFER PIZER The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided ...
PAUL MARTIN The state of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts is strong.
GARY BUSECK Same sex marriage is not an expression of human right but human wrong. Any nation that rationalizes ...
SYLLABUS ONAJOBI Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?
CURTIS JACKSON I don't see any reason for marriage when there is divorce.
CATHERINE DENEUVE To lovers out there....

Pregnancy is the main reason why most couples are married today. ...
DE PHILOSOPHER DJ KYOS Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER The current Legislature has determined that HB 616 (the new law) provides each community with suffic...
ANNE EDWARDS If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no ...
JOHN SENTAMU This episode goes into the homes of real families to show that gay and lesbian couples make the same...
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RACHEL HARTMAN I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
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DAVE MARTIN I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.
CASS SUNSTEIN But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridicu...
GARRET DILLAHUNT 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 ...
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority ar...
ANTONIN SCALIA Despite the vigorous policy and legal debates surrounding same-sex marriage, there is little disagre...
PAM BONDI Endeavor to care well for your spouse,for love naturally flows to the direction not of marriage,but ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) 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...
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We've had 19 consecutive votes on same-sex marriage bans, ... Eighteen states have passed them.
MATT FOREMAN For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their d...
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You must learn how to make a perfect ch...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history
CHAMFORT The United States Constitution does not one time even mention marriage. It neither requires Congress...
TRENT FRANKS That is exactly the point. We believe marriage is better than cohabitation for heterosexual couples.
PETER SPRIGG The Department's decision is shortsighted for a number of reasons, including the fact that some marr...
ALPHONSO DAVID Another reason for starting at Constitution Hill is because of the impending same-sex marriage case ...
BRUCE WALKER Life's irony;Sex is an event that should be practiced exclusively inside marriage,but most times the...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The attorney general of Massachusetts is selectively choosing which laws to enforce. Gay couples wis...
ASHLEY MUSHNICK I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.
MANNY PACQUIAO If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling g...
JEFF GREENFIELD The language is deliberately fuzzy. They want to try to take away any legal recognition for same-sex...
BRIAN CHASE Now you have a new life. A new dawn. A new flower in your basket. A new ray of hope. A new chapter i...
GIRDHAR JOSHI As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.
LAINI TAYLOR Clearly, looking at the 2004 presidential election the issue of same-sex marriage resonated with Afr...
LAMELL MCMORRIS I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
SALLY KIRKLAND Thank God the governor was the only one in the whole legislative process to err on the side of reaso...
BENJAMIN LOPEZ Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
HENDRIK HERTZBERG Management has failed to give a consistent reason for his absence.
BRENT THILL Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.
MARK W. BOYER Even people who don't understand same sex marriage understand this country never, ever allowed for s...
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