Jon Lovett Quotes

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.

I'm not against gay people.

I think that more and more Americans are insistent that, at a minimum, gay couples should be treated with respect and when they see a political party trying to stigmatize a group of people who are hardworking, who play by the rules, who raise decent families, they're troubled by it.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.

I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

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

Why did mainstream America come to accept marriage equality? Gay leaders had made a convincing case that gay families were like straight families and should have the same rights. The American spirit of fair play had been invoked.

I don’t think that gay people threaten my marriage and I don’t think that the nation is in danger from gays.

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.

I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

My brother had the courage to come out in 1978, when equality was still a distant dream.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.

I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

I'm not a gay rights activist.

I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.

We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.