Alan Autry Quotes

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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.

I support marriage equality and oppose legislation that defines marriage as only being between a man and a woman.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I'd hesitated to have a wedding because my gay and lesbian friends don't have that right.

Gay Marriage is the Civil Rights Issue of our time.

If we are endowed by our Creator with rights, then why shouldn't those be attainable by gays and lesbians?

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.

I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.

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

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

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is between a man and a woman.

Homosexuals can be, you know, committed to each other. And they have freedom to behave in the ways that they do, but they cannot be a family. They cannot be married. I mean, virtually every culture in the history of the world has considered marriage to be between one woman and one man.

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

Let gay people get married.

I have voted in support of efforts in the Senate to enact a Constitutional amendment that would have limited marriage to one man and one woman only.

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.