Legal Marriage Quotes

Homosexual marriage is counterfeit marriage.

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.

A Miami judge issued Florida's first gay marriage license yesterday, which makes it the 36th state to legally perform gay marriages. Of course, most Florida residents are too old to understand what that means. They'll say, 'Well, I think all marriages should be gay, and merry.'

Marriage is reckon’d a lay contract in Carolina.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

I do not agree that the court can or should redefine marriage.

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

I don't believe that a piece of paper can decide your relationship status.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.

I look forward to exercising my American civil liberties and getting fully, completely and legally married this year to my true love of over three years, Linda Wallem.

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.

I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.

The different types of marriage available in our law - customary marriage, marriage under the ordinance, marriage under Islamic law - have resulted in considerable gender inequality as women have less power to negotiate and insist on the type of legal regime under which they would like to be married

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

Why marry? If you're not married, you just leave each other and it's cool. Who needs the paper? To me it means nothing.

Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

The Indian having taken to himself a wife should be compelled to continue that relation with her, unless dissolved by some recognized tribunal.

Let gay people get married.

It is wrong for the federal government to deny benefits or privileges to couples who have lawfully wed.

I personally believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, but I can’t impose my views on everyone else.

Refrain from contracting any marriage forbidden by the law of the land.

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 more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.