David Furnish Quotes

I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.

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

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 don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.

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.

Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

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

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.

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.

Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.

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 Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.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

In 2011, when the General Assembly passed the law allowing civil unions, Illinois took an important step forward to recognize that gay and lesbian couples have the right to build lives together and create strong, loving families.

I am for registered civil partnerships.

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

I have never been in favor of gay marriage, and I am not in favor of gay marriage.

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

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

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

Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

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 have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.