Barack Obama Quotes

Let gay people get married.

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

Gay Marriage is the Civil Rights Issue of our time.

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

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.

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

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

I don’t believe that opposite sex and same sex marriages are the same, but I do believe, with growing numbers of Americans, that the time for denigrating or stigmatizing same sex relationships are over.

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

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 Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.

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

I don't understand why gay people are so anxious to get married.

I'm so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.

I'm terrified to get married. I'm not getting married till my gay friends can.

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.

I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting gay marriage.

I'm completely comfortable with gay marriage.

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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

My feelings on homosexuality are unequivocal. I have absolutely no problem with it whatsoever. My only reservation is marriage.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

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 feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.