“I have the liberal dictionary right here...let's see how they define water-boarding: 'Something done by the evil troops, who we don't support, to innocent terrorists violating their rights to bomb our cities and make us get gay marriage.'” DoneEvilWaterCitiesSupportRightsGayTerroristInnocentBombsTroopsGay MarriageDictionary Author:Jon Stewart
“Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms? And if intimacy is, one would think Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie.” IfsThinkingMeanSpiritualityAsksCourtIntimacyRulingGay MarriageDissentHippieCourt Decision Book:Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents Source: Scalia's Court: A Legacy of Landmark Opinions and Dissents
“I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.” IfsHomeGovernmentAbleSchoolBeliefDecisionViewsRiskCourtAssumingTreatedRepeatsRulingEmployersGay MarriageDissentBigotsRecessCourt DecisionAgainst Gay Marriage Author:Samuel Alito
“The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.” IfsGovernmentWould BeHumanityLostLosesBenefitsDignityConstitutionSlaveDenyCampsDeniedIncapableRulingGay MarriageConfinedDissentClausesCourt DecisionInternmentInternment Camps Author:Clarence Thomas
“To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.” SocialSexDecisionPrinciplesPolicyTransformationFundamentalsCourtNineRepresentationTaxationRulingGay MarriageDissentSelectMeltingCourt DecisionSocial TransformationTaxation Without Representation Author:Antonin Scalia
“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.” IfsPersonsStatesStoriesCertainUnitedLibertyOpinionUnited StatesRightsIdentityPromiseVoteConstitutionPaidCourtFortuneSupremeRealmsReasoningBagsAphorismMysticalSupreme CourtFifthCookiesGay MarriageDissentMeltingFortune CookieSupreme Court JusticeCourt JusticeCourt Decision Author:Antonin Scalia
“I wouldn't want [gay marriage] to go to the United States Supreme Court now because that homophobe Antonin Scalia has too many votes on this current court.” WantStatesUnitedUnited StatesGayVoteCourtCurrentsSupremeSupreme CourtGay MarriageHomophobes Author:Barney Frank
“Gay marriage within mainline denominations is gaining traction. Skewed pastors and even the government can't trump the Bible on this issue. Pastors: stand!” GovernmentIssuesTrumpGayPastorGay MarriageDenominationsTraction Author:Steve Camp
“Republicans don't want to shrink government. They want more and more military, more and more surveillance. They'd like to have the government banning gay marriage and so forth.” WantGovernmentMilitaryRepublicanGayShrinksGay MarriageSurveillance Author:John Zerzan
“The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.” PersonsCertainLibertyRightsIdentityPromiseConstitutionCourtRealmsGay MarriageDissentMeltingSupreme Court JusticeCourt Decision Author:Anthony Kennedy
“Clearly, gay marriage is on the top of the agenda right now. It's pretty amazing, considering where stuff was at when I was in high-school, when there were no LGBT Gay-Straight Alliances or any of that stuff. Am I a huge Lady Gaga fan? No, but I think some of the stuff she does that helps LGBT kids is amazing. And it's great that that's mainstream. It's fantastic that there's a pop star who's willing to put herself out in that way.” ThinkingWayDoeHelpingKidsSchoolStarsStuffFansWillingHugeRight NowGayHigh SchoolPopsFantasticAgendasLgbtMainstreamConsideringGay MarriageAlliancesPop StarsGaga Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.” MovingValuesPresidentPaySawsGayDaughterVicesTraditionalPreservesCynicalAmendmentsGay MarriageBansVice PresidentTraditional ValuesConstitutional AmendmentsPloy Author:Jon Stewart
“I'm always shocked that gay marriage is such a big deal. You have to realize how precious human life is, when there are tsunamis and mudslides, when there are armies and terrorists - at any moment, you could be gone, and potentially in the most brutal fashion.” HumansMomentsBigsLife IsRealizingDealsGoneFashionGayArmyTerroristHuman LifeBrutalShockedBig DealGay MarriageTsunami Author:Jennifer Beals
“I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.” ThinkingProblemGayBiggerThreatDivorceGay MarriageBigger Problems Author:Rick Warren
“This is what I say to the most conservative person that's so terrified of gay marriage becoming legal. Just because the state says it's legal, it's not like God's going to let them into Heaven. So you can still sleep sound every night knowing that goal line defense is up at the pearly gates.” PersonsStillsStatesNightHeavenSoundGoalLinesSleepKnowingBecomingGayConservativeDefenseGatesEvery NightTerrifiedGay MarriagePearly Gates Author:Daniel Tosh
“I was in a real conservative area just outside of Chicago recently. And this guy's like, 'Hey, Arj, you're from San Francisco. Are you in favor of gay marriage?' I was like, 'Well, I'd like to get to know you a little bit better first. I don't know what ever happened to buying a guy a smoothie and seeing what happens. That's how we do it back home.” KnowsFirstsWellsLittlesRealHomeHappensGuyBitsSeeingHappenedGayLittle BitAreasConservativeFavorsHeyBuyingChicagoThis GuySan FranciscoGay MarriageBack HomeSmoothies Author:Arj Barker
“And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person.” PeopleThinkingShouldPersonsReasonSchoolPrayerSupportGayVoteIndependentCandidatesGay MarriageIndependent ThinkingThinking PersonPrayer In School Author:Kinky Friedman
“I'm pro-gay marriage. I don't believe that that's a sin.” BelieveSinGayDon't BelieveGay MarriagePro Gay Author:Jay Bakker
“I'm definitely always drawn to the injustice of people who have been imprisoned for things they didn't do. But also lots about abortion and gay marriage. Civil issues are usually what I am drawn to.” PeopleHas BeensIssuesGayInjusticeAbortionGay Marriage Author:Natalie Maines
“The only people are those who don't love anybody.” PeopleGayLgbtHomosexualityHomosexualGay MarriageOrientationGay RightsGay PeopleBeing GayGay PrideLgbt PrideBorn Gay Author:Rita Mae Brown
“You can't wake up one day and say 'I'm for gay marriage,' and wake up the next day and say 'I'm against it.' Wake up one day and say, 'I'm pro-choice,' and the next day wake up and say, 'I'm pro-life.' There's no credibility there.” ChoicesNextGayOne DayWake UpNext DayCredibilityGay MarriagePro Life Author:Roger Stone
“Ed "The Truth Is Illegal" Markey responded to Teamster support for ANWR by dismissively sniffing, it was only "one issue." Luckily, the Democrats have all those other issues dear to the heart of the average blue-collar worker: abortion on demand, gay marriage and taxpayer-funded crucifixes submerged in urine.” HeartSupportIssuesTruth IsGayDemandBlueDemocratWorkersDearAverageAbortionIllegalGay MarriageTaxpayersCollarsBlue CollarSubmergedSniffingBlue Collar WorkersAnwr Author:Ann Coulter
“Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians.” CausesHurtRightsPoliticianGayElectionConservativeGay MarriageGay RightsBallots Author:Roseanne Barr
“I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.” PeopleIfsWantImportantWarRealGovernmentRunningSchoolStuffRealizingIssuesCrimeSeriousRepublicanGayDrugDemocratIraqArguingImmigrationNeighborhoodIllegalImprovingBetter PlaceCleaningGay MarriageAlabamaIllegal ImmigrationCleaning Up Author:Charles Barkley
“Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is to call you gay. Liberals are gays' biggest champions on issues most gays couldn't care less about, like gay marriage or taxpayer funding of photos of men with bullwhips up their derrieres. But who has done more to out, embarrass, and destroy the lives of gay men who prefer to keep their orientation private than Democrats? Who is more intolerant of gays in the Republican Party than gays in the Democratic Party?” MenFirstsDoneCarePartyIssuesRepublicanGayClaimsDemocraticDemocratResponseChampionDisagreeRepublican PartyGay MarriageDemocratic PartyFundingTaxpayersOrientationGay MenSpleen Author:Ann Coulter
“The White House admitted that Vice President Biden's endorsement of gay marriage forced him to come out in favor of it. So in a related story millions of Americans are trying to get Biden hooked on pot.” TryingStoriesHousePresidentWhiteMillionsGayVicesFavorsRelatedWhite HousePotGay MarriageVice PresidentHookedEndorsementsBiden Author:Conan O'Brien
“One time I was doing an interview for a gay magazine and halfway through the journalist found out I wasn't gay. He said, 'Sorry, I can't continue the interview.' Because they only had gay public figures in their magazine. I felt so crestfallen. I wanted to tell him: but I play fundraisers for gay marriage! I'd rather my kids were gay than straight!'” SaidI CanPlayKidsWantedFoundFeltFiguresGaySorryMagazinesJournalistInterviewsOne TimeHalfwayGay MarriagePublic FiguresFundraiser Author:Moby
“People like Sean Penn, he is someone that is politically progressive and yet is still at the top of his game in the industry. So I love that he is out there just virtually shaming all the people that voted for Prop 8. He was a really great example of a straight ally, someone who used his talent and used his ability to further our cause, not just for political progressiveness but also specifically for gay marriage and specifically for Harvey Milk's entire life.” PeopleStillsPoliticalUsedGamesCausesAbilityTalentExampleIndustryGayProgressiveAlliesMilkReally GreatGay MarriagePropsSeanHarvey Author:Margaret Cho
“Christians lost the battle in the public square over gay marriage because, frankly, we were outthought, outfought, and outmarketed on the issue.” ChristianLostIssuesGayBattleSquaresGay Marriage Author:Robert Jeffress
“Gay marriage is a complete red herring to distract everyone from the economy and the war and health care and education.” WarCareEconomyGayRedHealth CareGay MarriageHerringRed Herrings Author:David O. Russell
“Abortion and gay marriage are the political hot-buttons of the day. There are lot of things going wrong in the world, hate is running amok, so why just focus on these two hot-buttons and not everything else?” WorldTwoRunningPoliticalHateFocusGayHotAbortionButtonsGay Marriage Author:Robert Hood
“It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.” PeopleTryingDoeSeemsHappensDesireDifferencesChurchAcceptingGayInterfereHomosexualGay MarriageGay PeopleAbomination Author:Andrew Solomon
“There was only really one time that I had a substantive interaction with the president [Barak Obama] directly, and that was in 2013 when we were deciding whether to file a brief in the first gay marriage case, the Perry against Hollingsworth case. That was a weighty decision about whether the United States government was going to come in and say that heightened scrutiny ought to apply and some state bans on same-sex marriage ought to be unconstitutional. And that was the one time in my tenure where I thought I ought not make this decision without talking to the president.” FirstsStatesGovernmentSexPresidentDecisionUnitedTalkingCasesUnited StatesOughtGayOne TimeInteractionGay MarriageFilesBansScrutinyState GovernmentTenureUnconstitutionalUnited States GovernmentBarak Obama Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“There was a huge movement that led up to [gay marriage legilization], and I played a small role in the great scheme of things. But it was really a privilege to get to do it.” RolesMovementHugeGayPrivilegeSchemesGay MarriageSmall Roles Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“I think we have muddled the terms of marriage, civil partnership, registry office, church etc. I would have liked that to have been clarified. I didn't really like the legislation that was the problem but I absolutely support gay marriage.” ThinkingHas BeensProblemTermChurchSupportGayOfficeEtcPartnershipLegislationGay MarriageSupport Gay Marriage Author:Andrea Leadsom
“If we were to sit and discuss abortion and legalizing marijuana and gay marriage and all those things, you'd be surprised where you'd see me on the side of some of that stuff. People get their opinions - as soon as you're a real flag-waving patriot, then all of a sudden you're a conservative.” PeopleIfsRealStuffSidesOpinionGayConservativeAbortionFlagsMarijuanaPatriotGay MarriageLegalizing MarijuanaFlag Waving Author:Toby Keith
“The fact that gay marriage is legal but women don't have equal rights is so redonkulous that I think it just doesn't stand the light of day.” ThinkingFactsLightRightsGayEqualEqual RightsGay Marriage Author:Kamala Lopez
“I have gay friends in my life who are conservative. I have gay friends in my life who are for gay marriage and against gay marriage. I believe in an open and free debate.” BelieveI BelieveGayConservativeI Believe InDebateGay MarriageGay FriendAgainst Gay Marriage Author:Andrew Breitbart
“You'll have many gay people on your side who just because they're gay, doesn't mean they're for gay marriage.” PeopleMeanSidesGayGay MarriageYour SideGay People Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Toward the end of the campaign, we interviewed some voters in Raleigh, N.C., which is a generally Democratic city, and I'm thinking of a young couple. They had two kids. They described themselves as Christian. They oppose gay marriage. And they were saying that even though they didn't like Donald Trump, they were thinking of voting for him. And one of the reasons was they felt that they were - their very views were making them socially unacceptable. They were feeling a little alienated from the world.” ThinkingWorldLittlesTwoEndsReasonFeelingsKidsChristianYoungFeltViewsCitiesTrumpCoupleGayDemocraticCampaignsVotingVotersGay MarriageRaleighYoung Couples Author:Steve Inskeep
“Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.” PeopleProblemStuffCrazyGayGunAddDemocratSpendingAbortionPushingGun ControlDeficitGay MarriageDeficit Spending Author:Collin Peterson
“There's not much more to do on the gay agenda. They got gay marriage, and we're close to putting you in jail if you won't bake a cake for a gay wedding. We've got pretty much everything, but you have to keep the group happy.” IfsGroupsGayAgendasJailCakeGay Marriage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Barack Obama] was running for Senate and he's saying, I'm not for gay marriage because I'm a Christian. Jump off a bridge! I mean what the hell are you talking about? You know, I mean, what's he doing now? He's evolving. Evolving? Well, evolve for Christ's sake! And this is a guy - the whole gay community, and the whole environmental community and all these other people said, he's our guy.” PeopleKnowsWellsMeanSaidWholeRunningChristianGuyChristCommunityTalkingHellGayEnvironmentalSakeBarackEvolveBridgesSenateGay MarriageGay Community Author:Bill Ayers
“If gay marriage is a real thing, gay infertility must be a real thing. It's not fair. I mean, it wasn't fair they couldn't get married, and now it's not fair that they can't have babies, even though they're not infertile, that doesn't matter. And so there must be access to infertility insurance for married gay couples, if our culture and if our society is to be fair and equal for one and all, and it is coming, and don't laugh about it.” IfsMeanRealMatterCultureLaughingBabyCoupleGayEqualMarriedFairsAccessOur SocietyGay MarriageReal ThingsNot FairInfertilityGay Couples Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil War to apply to former slaves to ensure that they are treated like all other citizens. It never did have anything to do with gay marriage. It was never intended to have anything to do with gay marriage or animal marriage or any other kind of social contract. It was specific to slavery, and after the Civli War.” KindWarSocialAnimalCitizensGaySlaverySlaveTreatedFormerCivil WarContractsAmendmentsGay MarriageSocial Contract14th Amendment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“These liberals are the craziest things. The Constitution, they see things in it that aren't there and ignore things which are. The 14th Amendment, nothing to do with gay marriage.” GayConstitutionAmendmentsGay MarriageCraziest14th Amendment Author:Rush Limbaugh
“All leftists are constantly scared because they know that the victories they have are really not solid, their victories are the result of authoritarianism and bulliness. They're not the result of a majority of people agreeing with them. They know that a majority of this country is not for gay marriage. They know they've succeeded in bullying the country into it.” PeopleCountryVictoryGayScaredBullyingGay Marriage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's very easy, when things like the gay marriage write-in happen, to get sick of how people view language and say, "ah, come on it's just a dictionary." But then you hear from people who say if you take out "retarded" it won't exist anymore, and there will be no slurs for people to call my child. And that's just heartrending.” PeopleChildrenLanguageEasyGaySickMy ChildrenGay MarriageDictionaryRetarded Author:Kory Stamper
“It's difficult to sit down and write a letter back saying, "you know what, even if we remove the word from the dictionary, people will still continue to use it." That's the tightrope that we walk - "gay marriage" is another example, or the word "nude."” PeopleWritingDifficultGayGay MarriageDictionary Author:Kory Stamper
“We had so many milestones in America. We were on our way to universal healthcare. We had gay marriage. We were talking about gender fluidity and trans issues openly and discussing them with respect. It was almost to the point where educating people about transgender rights wasn't an issue. We were including trans people as a normal part of our conversations instead of seeing their presence as this shocking thing to the system. We forgot that those things can be taken away from you because there are people in the world that, for whatever f - king reason, can't live and let live.” PeopleWorldReasonTakenGayGenderHealthcareGay MarriageTransgenderMilestoneLive And Let Live Author:Beth Ditto