Earl Blumenauer Quotes

Marriage has been undermined by divorce ... Don't blame the gay and lesbian, transgender and transsexual community.

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?'

Same-sex marriage is not the future.

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!

I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills.

I don't believe that homosexuals really want to marry, most of them. They're all different, and some have different views.

I do not support a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

Most Americans don't care about gay marriage.

Gay marriage won't be more of an issue 25 years from now than interracial marriage is today.

… the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.

When Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the same-sex marriage bill, my blood was boiling. I had been silent, but that night, Brad and I watched the news and saw all these young people pouring out on Santa Monica Boulevard venting their rage, and I said, 'I have to speak out.'

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.

With the notion of marriage - an exclusive, emotional, binding 'til death do you part' tie - becoming more and more an exception to the rule given a rise in cohabitation and high rates of divorce, why should the federal government be telling adults who love one another that they cannot get married simply because they happen to be gay?

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

It's not like the right for gay people to marry just happened.

In general, everybody should admit the world is changing really fast, and it's hard for the conversations to keep up. I mean, it's hard to remember now, but when Barack Obama ran for president, he was against gay marriage.

Today Donald Trump reaffirmed his stance against gay marriage. Trump said marriage is between a rich guy and his much younger third wife.

I'm personally supportive of marriage equality for gay couples and I believe that it will happen over time.

I don't think gay marriage is any threat to marriage. I think divorce is a bigger problem to marriage than anything else.

One of the loveliest weddings I ever performed was that of a gay couple. To me if you are a good citizen, you pay your taxes, you work, you should have all the rights and responsibilities of everybody else.

I always wonder why Republicans hate gay marriage, because they certainly don't hate gay prostitutes.

Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, it did not redefine voting.

Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.

we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left behind. Traditional values aren't as crucial as social conservatives would have you believe — and, in any case, the social changes taking place in America's working class are overwhelmingly the consequence of sharply rising inequality, not its cause.