John Ridley Quotes

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 do support a constitutional amendment on marriage between a man and a woman, but I would not be going into the states to overturn their state law.

I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.

I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing.

But I don't think that it's a form of family that I would be comfortable in. I've found a way to this character and this family, but I still believe that a marriage is between two people and not seven or three.

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

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

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

I think it's best if there's an amendment that goes on the ballot where the people can weigh in. Every time this issue has gone on the ballot, the people have voted to retain the traditional definition of marriage as recently as California in 2008.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

I hope gay marriage will be legal in every state.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

I had met my now wife, Sheryl, and was attempting my first try at monogamy, which was not really in my nature at the time, and I wasn't able to do it.

After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.

I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way.

I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning 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 have a theory: I believe that with the advent of the United States and the lawful definition of marriage, it was defined as between one man and one woman. It was anti-polygamy, in effect saying no man can hoard his women.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.