John Ridley Quotes

But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

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

You know, American citizens, I don't think, ever thought that the right to the pursuit of happiness did not include the right to marry the person you love. But for a whole number of Americans, gay Americans, that happens to be true.

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

Denying that the issue of marriage equality has changed is being on the wrong side of history and on the wrong side of love and commitment.

Everybody should be free to love and marry who they want.

It's ridiculous that people aren't allowed to love who they love, have families, and have the same life as straight people. It's infuriating.

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

When it comes to letting people marry whomever they love, Mitt Romney says, 'No.'

I support gay marriage because I think that they have just as much right to be miserable as the rest of us.

A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing to protect traditional marriages.

It makes no sense to me that my gay friends cannot get married to each other because a certain slice of Christianity doesn't believe in gay marriage.

We have so much discrimination in this world - colour, race, creed, all of these things - and there is an issue here that the right of marriage in the civil law is not extended to same-sex couples.

I feel like in 10 or 15 years' time our children are going to look back and say, 'What? You were around when gay people weren't allowed to get married?'

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.

We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.

Like a majority of Americans in recent years, I came to understand that fear of homosexuality was leading our governments - including the one I ran as Governor of Mississippi - to deny the equal rights to an entire segment of our population that are afforded all of us under the Constitution.

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.

I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted.

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.

I'm all for same-sex marriage.

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.