Legal Recognition Quotes

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

Do I support the idea of gay marriage? No, I don't.

I don't believe in the institution of marriage.

Gay Marriage is the Civil Rights Issue of our time.

Dwayne Betts is the kind of man who should be receiving awards from the Connecticut bar. Instead, he hasn't been admitted.

I don't understand why gay people are so anxious to get married.

Homosexual marriage is counterfeit marriage.

Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.

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.

In the 1950s, buggery was a criminal offence. Now it's a requirement to receive benefits from the federal government.

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.

My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.

I believe in traditional marriage and I believe in the Defense of Marriage Act.

We got Defense of Marriage Act as a federal law from President Bill Clinton. And it was passed with bipartisan support.

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 don't give a bleep if gays get married. That's just a contract, and that's between them and God. That ain't up to me to play God on that.

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 have no objection to the concept of domestic partnership.

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

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.

Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

At the heart of the gay marriage argument is an untruth: unions of two men or women are not the same as unions of husband and wife. The law cannot make it so, it can only require us to paint pretty pictures to cover up deep truths embedded in human nature.

It no longer makes sense to see singlehood and marriage as two distinct and stable social categories that should be accorded different legal rights and social esteem.