Denise Mina Quotes

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

It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn't believe in gay marriage.

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'

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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.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'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

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.

Loads of my friends are lesbians, and it really annoys me that gay people aren't allowed to get married in most parts of America. I'd go on a march for gay rights any time.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

I now pronounce you man and man.

Gay Marriage is the Civil Rights Issue of our time.

Let gay people get married.

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

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.

I'm for same-sex marriage.

I think it really changes things when you're able to get married. I mean, the Marriage Equality Act was super important. I think you cannot believe it happened as fast as it did. For a lot of gay people, it's very surprising. You thought that this is going to be a struggle forever.

Marriage equality is not an issue of politics: it is an issue of justice achieved by political means.

Seriously I just don't get why straight people are so afraid of the fact that gay people can get married.

I believe one day a 'ban on gay marriage' will sound totally ridiculous. In the meantime, I will continue to speak out for equality for all of us.

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

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.

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.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.