Barney Frank Quotes

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.

Why shouldn't gay people be allowed to be able to marry? Those against gay marriages say marriage should only be between a man and a woman. God, I of all people know that doesn't always work!

Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this

Interpreting anyone's marriage - a neighbor's, let alone the president's - is extremely difficult.

I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men.

Everyone knows marriage is tough.

Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?

I know for me the subject of how to be in a relationship is precious and complicated and challenging.

It is a risky step to interfere with the most intimate details of other people's lives while loudly claiming liberty for yourself.

Just as states should not make laws based on race of who should be able to marry, they should not make laws based on sex about who can marry.

The earth didn’t stop spinning. The moon didn’t fall into the pond. The people who live across the street are the same people, except that they’re married.

Homosexual marriage is counterfeit marriage.

I agree with 81 percent of the people of Alabama who believe that marriage is between one man and one woman.

Campaign widowhood totally suited me, and I soon began to suspect that our setup beat the bill-paying and bickering of an actual marriage.

The questions of traditional and redefined marriage are highly emotional and a difficult and sensitive topic. Living in the D.C. area and having gay friends and colleagues, I find the topic difficult to discuss and sometimes even difficult write about for fear that I will be judged.

They don't get along with me, but I get along with other people.

The only thing wrong with marriage is that one of the persons involved is a man.

People will always be interested in relationships, infidelity and sex and everything connected to things in their own lives.

The good thing about being gay was always that you didn't have a wedding. People would say, "He's gay, but at least he didn't make us go to his wedding. He didn't make us fly across the country. He didn't make us choose between the fish and the beef."

Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.

My sex life is terrible; my wife put a mirror over the dog's bed. Actually she did put a mirror over our bed. She says she likes to watch herself laugh.

Some people who think they are in unhappy marriages are just in unhappy bodies.

What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith.

A Pakistan businessman is claiming that John Walker Lindh is gay and that he was his lover. Say what you will about Lindh, but when this guy goes to play for the other team - he goes all the way ... So Lindh may be both a terrorist and a gay man. That may be John Ashcroft's worst nightmare.

When you hear all these things about homosexual marriage, this has nothing to do with homosexual rights. The whole objective is the destruction of the traditional family. It has nothing to do with homosexuals.