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

Securing for gays and lesbians the basic right to have their relationships and families recognized as part of a community makes all of our communities stronger.

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.

I've learned that most of gay America is coupled up, or looking to be. No wonder gay marriage has such traction. So many of us are already in it, so of course we want the legal benefits.

The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

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.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

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

Gay Marriage is the Civil Rights Issue of our time.

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

Let gay people get married.

I believe in family values, and I believe that we all ought to be able to have a family and marry if you want to. I don't think the government should be in that business of denying people the fundamental right to marry.

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

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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.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've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

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

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.

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

Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often?

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.