Carly Fiorina Quotes

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.

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

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.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

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.

However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause.

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.

I am for registered civil partnerships.

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

If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?

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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

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.

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.

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 hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

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.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words 'gay marriage' are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

I'm for gay marriage, because I'm for gay divorce.

Marriage has been undermined by divorce ... Don't blame the gay and lesbian, transgender and transsexual community.

Just as states should not make laws based on race of who should be able to marry, they should not make laws based on sex about who can marry.