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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance. -- Charlize Theron
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. -- Sandra Lee
I am fiscally prudent and socially progressive. I believe in protecting a woman's right to choose. I believe in marriage equality. -- Andrew Cuomo
After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom. -- Tim Johnson
Marriage equality changed life for people. -- Andrew Cuomo
I think same sex couples should be able to get married. -- Barack Obama
Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right. -- Cory Booker
Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you. -- Suzanne Brockmann
I'm a Christian and a supporter of marriage equality under the law. -- Bill Shorten
I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married. -- Lena Dunham
Marriage equality is "a threat to the nation's survival in the long run." -- Trent Franks
Remember that the successful marriage depends on two things: (1) finding the right person and (2) being the right person. -- Carrie Snow
It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night! -- Neil Patrick Harris
We stand with President Obama - love doesn't have a color, love doesn't care if you're gay or straight. Love doesn't discriminate. -- Antonio Villaraigosa
We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality. -- Andrew Cuomo
After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed. -- Bob Casey, Jr.
Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare. -- Gary Johnson
I'm an American for marriage equality. I believe that love comes in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. So whether you're LGBT or straight, your love is valid, beautiful, and an incredible gift. -- Demi Lovato
But perhaps the next step isn't to, once again, expand the otherwise narrow definition of marriage but to altogether abolish the false distinction between married families and other equally valid but unrecognized partnerships. -- Sally Kohn
The other states look to New York for the progressive direction. New York made a powerful statement [legalizing marriage equality], not just for the people of New York, but for people all across this nation. -- Andrew Cuomo
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Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked. -- Edmund White
The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children, intended or unintended-is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously.... -- Richard Posner
Most Americans are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I'm advocating a balanced budget. But along with that, look, there should be gay marriage equality. A woman should have the right to choose. Let's not build a fence across the border. -- Gary Johnson
It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples, -- Gene Robinson
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage. -- Henry Rollins
In articulating all my feelings about marriage equality, I almost don't know where to begin. And perhaps that's part of the problem. Why do we have to explain ourselves when it comes to issues of fairness and equality? Why is common sense not enough? -- Scott Fujita
Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality. -- David Mixner
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction - beyond that. -- Joe Biden
For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn't give them the right to discriminate. -- Scott Fujita
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Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a state-by-state issue. We don't want it to be something the majority is voting on. I don't think the civil rights of any minority should be in the hands of any majority. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Montanans believe in the right to make a good life for their families. How they define a family should be their business and their business alone. I'm proud to support marriage equality because no one should be able to tell a Montanan or any American who they can love and who they can marry. -- Jon Tester
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all. -- Jason Mraz
It is each American's constitutional right to marry the person they love, no matter what state they inhabit. No state should decide who can marry and who cannot. Thanks to the tireless work of so many, someday soon this discrimination will end and every American will be able to enjoy their equal right to marriage. -- Brad Pitt
... 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. -- Masha Gessen
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you're playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? -- Henry Rollins
A middle ground might be to fight for same-sex marriage and its benefits and then, once granted, redefine the institution of marriage completely, to demand the right to marry not as a way of adhering to society's moral codes but rather to debunk a myth and radically alter an archaic institution. [Legalizing "same-sex marriage"] is also a chance to wholly transform the definition of family in American culture. -- Michelangelo Signorile
As an actor, you just want to work, and then you just want to be on a show or have a job that you love, and you hope that job will last - those things have happened. To have that platform to then talk about something that is very personal to me like marriage equality, it feels like a gift. I try and really respect that voice and not abuse it. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
The political struggle against marriage equality is war -- Pope Francis
Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion. -- Evan Wolfson
Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress. -- John Legend
Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours. -- Penny Wong
I'm personally supportive of [marriage] equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time. -- Steve Schmidt
On a serious note, I stand by Obama on marriage equality! I believe ALL families deserve the same rights -- Connor Barwin
I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality. -- Cyndi Lauper
Marriage equality is the law of the land. Officials should be held to their duty to uphold the law-end of story. -- Hillary Clinton
I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us. -- Ellen DeGeneres
[Banning marriage equality is] discrimination, plain and simple. It's really not about votes. It's about people. I think it's the right thing to do as a human being. -- Jay-Z
Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere. -- Daniel Radcliffe
Public attitudes follow real life experience, and as marriage equality has spread to more communities, Americans have seen more freedom, stronger families, more protection for children and more fairness. -- Ken Mehlman
I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality. -- Hillary Clinton
If Jack, Frank and Mary are in a loving relationship and were all for marriage equality, then why aren't the three of them covered in SB1? Why can't they get married? -- Mike Gabbard
The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law. -- Bruce Springsteen
The widely held belief that the heterosexual nuclear family is best for children has long been used as a smoke screen for homophobia and as a talking point to quash marriage-equality efforts. -- Jessica Valenti
The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus. -- Uma Thurman
I want to stay on the subject of marriage equality because this is the part of the show that everybody loves but you hate if you're the one who has to hear your own voice. -- Dahlia Lithwick
While people are prepared to talk about Social Security, about marriage equality, about any number of other issues, people are not prepared - your layperson is not prepared to have a conversation about foreign policy. -- Julianne Malveaux

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