It's not about taking away rights from gays and lesbians as much as it is denying the best opportunity for family and children. By injecting children into the argument, they don't have the same strength they had.

We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

If he just means for gays and lesbians to just be there and be quiet, that won't happen,

I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'

If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.