I'd always felt from as far back as I can remember that where the issue of marriage is concerned, individuals should have the opportunity to marry and not be discriminated against.

As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster.

We're all concerned about it, and we're all sensitive to it, ... We do what we can to protect people's lives, but we protect their liberties at the same time.

The right to marry is vital in society. It's a right that's older than the Bill of Rights because it goes back to the common law.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

No one should be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation.