Adam Rickitt Quotes

Marriage equality changed life for people.

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.

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

Gay Marriage is the Civil Rights Issue of our time.

I am for registered civil partnerships.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.

I believe in civil partnerships as it protects each partner. Whether I believe in marriage is a different thing.

Marriage equality is coming, and not merely to a theater near you.

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?

I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

I certainly support civil unions.

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.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.

It is absolutely right for the state to define the rights and status of people cohabiting in different forms of relationships, including civil partnerships.

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

I have a lot of friends who, especially in Tennessee, were looking forward to getting married who wanted to wait until it was legal in the state that they live in to get married.

Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.

It's not a question of being out of touch or traditional. It's a question of wanting to preserve marriage as uniquely between a man and a woman. Gays get full civil rights with civil partnerships anyway.

In 2011, when the General Assembly passed the law allowing civil unions, Illinois took an important step forward to recognize that gay and lesbian couples have the right to build lives together and create strong, loving families.