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If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights. -- Barack Obama
The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, "This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it." Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, "Gay discrimination is wrong." -- Barack Obama
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. -- Jack Kingston
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights. -- Robert Dallek
I'm an activist for gay marriage equality and children's rights. I'm the face of Share Our Strength. -- Sandra Lee
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans. -- Benjamin Jealous
The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution. -- Ted Olson
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. -- Alan Autry
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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.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.
I would sign an executive order protecting religious liberty, our first amendment rights, so Christian business owners and individuals don't face discrimination for having a traditional view of marriage. -- Bobby Jindal
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families and have a better chance of staying out of poverty? -- Juan Williams
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous. -- Ian Mckellen
Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage. -- Stockwell Day
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
I don't support gay marriage, but I also don't support a constitutional amendment banning it. However, I do support same sex unions that would give gay couples all the rights, privileges and protections of marriage. -- Bob Casey, Jr.
I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called. -- Ellen DeGeneres
It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution. -- Barack Obama
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
What Andrew Cuomo said is, truly, a scandal. It's a scandal if he actually thinks it - that those who hold conservative views on abortion, gun rights and marriage are extreme, anathema and have no place in the state. -- Peggy Noonan
If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do. -- Ken Mehlman
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
Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights.... -- Ricky Gervais
Marriage isn't about rights as much as it is about revelation. -- Gary Thomas
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Happy that New York passed marriage equality tonight. A victory for human rights. Progress. -- John Legend
The rights of men and women should be equal and sacred-marriage should be a perfect partnership. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans. -- Benjamin Jealous
Gay Marriage isn't Special Rights, it's Equal Rights. 'Special Rights' are for political churches that don't pay taxes. -- John Fugelsang
On a serious note, I stand by Obama on marriage equality! I believe ALL families deserve the same rights -- Connor Barwin
Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians. -- Roseanne Barr
The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights. -- Alexander Chee
Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't. -- Ricky Gervais
In an American context, let's say gay rights or marriage policy - that's a progressive thing. I understand that in an American context. -- Trevor Noah
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in. -- Annie Laurie Gaylor
She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives. -- J. K. Rowling
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. -- Kamala Lopez

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