Glennon Doyle Melton Quotes

The amendment "discriminates not only against people who want to be married, but also against the faith traditions" that deem homosexual marriage consistent with their religious ideals

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

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

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.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

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.

Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.

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

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 see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

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.

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.

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

Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted?

I don't understand what the big deal is with gay marriage. Get over it, people.

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

The culmination of a long struggle was 2013, which could clearly be labeled the Year of the Gay. State after state had legalized gay marriage, despite intense opposition from the religious right.

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.

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.