Marriage Equality Movement Quotes

I think it really changes things when you're able to get married. I mean, the Marriage Equality Act was super important. I think you cannot believe it happened as fast as it did. For a lot of gay people, it's very surprising. You thought that this is going to be a struggle forever.

When gay people can get married, then I'll get married.

Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?

If traditional marriage is not the law of the land, the institution of the family will cease to exist.

As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love and want to marry. I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love.

[on marriage equality] It literally is a threat to the nation's survival in the long run.

I don't have to get married myself in order to campaign on behalf of gay marriage.

I'm so in favor of gay marriage that I even married a guy.

I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!

Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

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

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?

Same-sex marriage - no question - is an issue.

Even when I was dating a man I always said I'd never get married until marriage equality was passed in Australia. It wouldn't feel right.

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.

We were the first party to call for equal marriage.

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages.

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

The day in 2011 that I went to the office of the city clerk in lower Manhattan with my partner Dustin to register for our domestic partnership was coincidentally also the first day same-sex partners were allowed to register for marriage in the state of New York.

The Australian public are sick and tired of the constant campaign by prominent persons to promote legal homosexual or lesbian same sex marriages

I certainly believe that I have no right to tell another couple whether they can or cannot be married.