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I don't really like Phil Robertson and I think his opinion about gay marriage is stupid. But in a country where we want an honest conversation, we have to realize that part of the honest conversation is hearing things we don't like and discussing them.

Here's the rule of thumb: When the entire family looks like the unibomber, they're against gay marriage.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

Marriage is wonderful.

I think people are free to marry any way they want to. But churches are free to set standards for marriage.

I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage.

The truth is many people see a marriage vow as the only way people are going to stay with someone who is sick.

We have a problem with dealing with race in our country. We have a problem with dealing with marriage equality and equality in general. These are complex, divisive issues in our society, and I think that the only way we further this conversation is to take them down to a very human scale.

Marriage isn't about a collection of scenes over ten years of two people telling each other that they love each other. It's about commitment.

Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.

Atlanta is Exhibit A in my belief that the marriage between hip-hop and sports is a failure.

The so-called Defense of Marriage Act is a valueless tradition that, like laws against interracial marriage that were finally overturned by the Supreme Court in 1967, undermines the spirit of love and commitment that couples share and sends the wrong message to society.

Academia is very flexible, but I had a spouse who was very committed to being a completely full partner in our marriage. I think if you counted up how many hours each one of us logged in, he certainly gets more than 50%.

It is a mistake for women to think that life begins only with marriage. A woman can and must have an identity and feel useful, valued, and needed whether she is single or married. She must feel that she can do something for someone else that no one else ever born can do.

We make no greater voluntary choice in this life than the selection of a marriage partner. This decision can bring eternal happiness and joy. To find sublime fulfillment in marriage, both partners need to be fully committed to the marriage.

I think there is much more queer visibility than there was when I was a kid. There is marriage, more trans visibility, and many more celebrities who are open about the sexuality. This was so not the case when I was a kid.

Marriage is a sacrament, and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church, not with Parliament.

I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

Marriage is great for some; it makes them better people. For me, commitment doesn't have to be marriage. It stems from the fact that I have a Westernised world view.

Marriage isn't important for me. It's just a social announcement where we splurge on feeding a lot of people.

Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.