“I’ve never understood why we would want to deny all the joys - and the challenges - of marriage to anyone. Which is why I think any loving, committed couple — gay or straight — should be able to get married.” ThinkingWantShouldAbleJoyChallengesCoupleGayMarriedUnderstoodCommittedDeny Author:Al Franken
“You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only -- the sole sort of gatekeeper of marriage should also support people staying together. I mean, a lot of heterosexual couples don't stay together, and I think that's as upsetting as two people who are really committed and loving and have been monogamous for many years wanting to ... be married and have -- share some of the same rights that this country is so uniquely qualified to give people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenGivingFeelsShouldYearsMeanHas BeensTwoCountryTogetherSupportRightsShareCoupleGayMarriedCommittedUpsetStayingSoleQualifiedGay MarriageBeing MarriedGatekeepersStaying Together Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.” PeopleWellsCountryLawDecisionClassCoupleGayEqualCourtCommittedDefenseStrikesSupremeDiscriminationCommitTreatedOur CountrySupreme CourtBetter OffIn-laws Author:Barack Obama
“Most Jewish feminists and gays that I know remain angry and frustrated by Jewish progressives. Deeply committed to progressive causes, frequently in the vanguard of political action, Jewish feminist and gays find ourselves fighting for the rights of others without the secure knowledge that others will fight for us.” KnowsActionPoliticalFightingCausesRightsFeminismGayAngryCommittedFeministSecureProgressiveFrustratedPolitical ActionVanguard Author:Irena Klepfisz
“I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.” FeelsHas BeensHandsChurchAttitudeLeaderBloodGaySuicideCommittedDestroyedChurch Leaders Author:Andrew Solomon
“[Robert Gottlieb] wouldn't have published 'Remembering Denny' . Denny was a Rhodes Scholar. He was on the swimming team. Had this great California crew cut and this great smile. Life magazine covered his graduation, and Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed it. We all expected him to be president some day. But he committed suicide when he was in his 50s. If he were gay in the 1950s, then the rest of what I wrote was commentary because life was so miserable for gay men back then. And that's why he committed suicide.” IfsMenRememberPresidentCuttingTeamGaySuicideCommittedExpectedMagazinesMiserableCaliforniaCoveredSwimmingScholarCrewCommentaryGay MenSwim Team Author:Kevin Sessums
“Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.” IfsWaySeemsTodayChristianJesusLeftChristChurchAliveCarArmsCoupleGayDegreesCommittedDrivingDialoguePostsFriendlyHugBishopsProtestantsInterfaithConvertingStickerCommitted RelationshipWiccanEnvironmentally Friendly Author:Mark Steyn
“I treat everyone that way I expect to be treated and that applies to marriage. Committed couples should be able to marry the person they love” WayShouldPersonsAbleCoupleGayTreatsCommittedTreatedGay Marriage Author:Sean Avery
“There's no need to legalize gay marriage. I have plenty of gay friends who are committed couples; some of them call themselves married, some don't, but their friends treat them as married. Anybody who doesn't like it just doesn't hang out with them.” NeedsCoupleGayMarriedTreatsCommittedPlentyHanging OutGay MarriageHomophobiaGay Friend Author:Orson Scott Card
“The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today.” HumansHas BeensTodayNationsBornRightsGenerationsCenturyGayHuman RightsCommittedWitnessLgbtPermitUnwillingTorchesNew GenerationInauguralUndoingInaugural Address Author:John F. Kennedy