Nelsan Ellis Quotes

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

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

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

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

Gay Marriage is the Civil Rights Issue of our time.

I believe marriage is a human right, not a state right.

I definitely do not support a constitutional amendment that has to do with prohibiting 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and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way.

I'm for same-sex marriage.

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

Same sex marriage, it's not a big concern to me.

I'm personally supportive of marriage equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time.

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

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.

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 do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

I support same-sex marriage.

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 do not think the gay population has been all that rabid for gay marriage. Note that I do not use the words 'gay community.' Expunge that expression from your vocabulary. We are not a community.

Marriage equality changed life for people.

I now pronounce you man and man.

On the issue of the gay marriage, I believe if people want to have private ceremonies, that's fine. I do not believe that gay marriages should be legal.

It's not a question of being out of touch or traditional. It's a question of wanting to preserve marriage as uniquely between a man and a woman. Gays get full civil rights with civil partnerships anyway.