“The only kind of marriage liberals had ever glorified is the gay kind. But thanks to Michael Schiavo, the sanctity of marriage is fast becoming a liberal sacrament, with the proviso it has to involve 'mercy killing.' It took Michael Schiavo's devoted efforts to starve and dehydrate his wife to restore liberal faith in the institution.” KindEffortWifeBecomingGayMercyInstitutionsKillingThanksDevotedSacramentsSanctityKilling ItSanctity Of Marriage Author:Ilana Mercer
“As a senator, I worried every day about the size of the federal deficit. I did not spend a single minute worrying about the effect of gays on the institution of marriage. Today it seems to be the other way around.” WaySeemsTodayWorryMinutesEffectsGayInstitutionsSizeWorriedSenatorsDeficit Author:John C. Danforth
“There are sharply different, competing models of what trans advocacy looks like - those that seek to follow the path laid out by the most visible and well-funded lesbian and gay rights organizations in the US and those that seek to use grassroots strategies, center issues of race and poverty, and aim to dismantle harmful institutions and conditions to redistribute life chances.” WellsLooksDifferentUseChanceRacePovertyPathIssuesRightsConditionsGayModelsOrganizationAimInstitutionsStrategyVisibleCompetingTransGay RightsAdvocacyGrassroots Author:Dean Spade
“I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsAbleThreeFourGenerationsGayMarriedInstitutionsGay PeopleFour Generations Author:Dan Savage
“I'm not sure that it's right to view this as excluding a particular group. When the institution of marriage developed historically, people didn't get around and say, 'Let's have this institution, but let's keep out homosexuals.' The institution developed to serve purposes that, by their nature, didn't include homosexual couples.” PeoplePurposeViewsGroupsParticularCoupleGayInstitutionsNot SureHomosexualGay Marriage Author:John Roberts
“Men in America were terrified that if women got an equal say in society, the system would collapse and their lives would be valued less. Whites in America were scared that if blacks obtained their freedom and equality, the system would collapse and their lives would be devalued. Heterosexuals are terrified that the psychotic institution of marriage will collapse if gays are given their right to marry. And humans are terrified that if animals are liberated and no longer viewed as inferior subordinates, human life will be valued less.” IfsMenHumansWould BeAmericaGivenAnimalGayEqualInstitutionsScaredHuman LifeCollapseInferiorsTerrifiedLiberatedSubordinatesPsychoticFreedom And Equality Author:Gary Yourofsky
“I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment.” BelieveI BelieveSupportGayCommitmentInstitutionsGay MarriageSupport Gay Marriage Author:George Osborne
“Right now the institution of marriage feels very one-sided, and I want to live in a country where we all have equal rights. I have so many friends who are gays and lesbians who would so badly want to get married, that I wouldn't be able to sleep with myself [if I got married before they could].” IfsWantFeelsCountryAbleSleepRightsRight NowGayEqualMarriedInstitutionsEqual RightsGay MarriageMany FriendsOne Sided Author:Charlize Theron
“I feel that gay people not being able to get married for generations, forever, meant that we came up with alternative ways of recognizing relationships. And I worry that if everybody has access to the same institutions that we lose the creativity of subcultures having to make it on their own. And I like gay culture.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsAbleCultureLosesCreativityWorryForeverGenerationsGayMarriedInstitutionsAccessAlternativesRecognizingGay PeopleSubcultureGay Culture Author:Rachel Maddow
“You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is newer than cellphones or the Internet?” WantMeanAbilityDecisionStepsEffectsInternetGayInstitutionsWant UGay MarriageAssessmentAbility To SeeCellphone Author:Samuel Alito
“We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party for? Indeed we are alienating people who have voted for us for all their lives, leaving them with no one to vote for.” PeopleShouldAsksPartyGayVoteInstitutionsLeavingConservativeHeritageGay MarriageCultural HeritageConservative Party Author:Edward Leigh
“... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don't think it should exist.” ThinkingShouldLyingFightingGayInstitutionsGay MarriageMarriage Equality Author:Masha Gessen