Quotes on Marriage Equality

It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.

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

Marriage equality does not diminish the worth of your relationships; it simply recognises the worth of ours.

... fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there-because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie. The institution of marriage is going to change, and it should change. And again, I don't think it should exist.

Gay and lesbian relationships operate on essentially the same principles as heterosexual relationships

Marriage equality is not a choice. It is a legal right.

To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is cruel as well as unconstitutional. Classifying some families, and especially their children, as of lesser value should be repugnant to all those in this nation who profess to believe in "family values."

I think same sex couples should be able to get married.

It PASSED! Marriage equality in NY!! Yes!! Progress!! Thank you everyone who worked so hard on this!! A historic night!