Top 30 Quotes About Civil Unions
#1. I don't think it's a great leap to go from civil unions to gay marriage - I may be in the minority in believing that.
Harold Ford Jr.
#2. The wedding took place in Vermont, where they have legalized gay civil unions, and I married a woman.
Craig Ferguson
#3. Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay marriage in New York City or at least the civil unions in New York City. He's called a champion of gay rights. Rudy is opposed to school choice. He's in favor of open borders.
James Dobson
#4. More people more accepting of civil unions and gay marriage, which our pollster said was the most significant change they've seen on any social issue. So, this country is changing in a way.
Norah O'Donnell
#5. I oppose same-sex marriage and civil unions but I support domestic partnership between gay and lesbian couples. I have no problem with gay and lesbian couples adopting. I support equal benefits for same-sex couples such as hospital visitation rights
Mitt Romney
#6. My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.
Howard Dean
#7. 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.
Dick Morris
#8. Well, I think the way to go is civil unions. But I do think when you talk about the Republican Party and the debates that are going on within the Republican Party on a number of issues, what I'm hoping is that they will get to a point where they will work with us on moving forward with this economy.
Amy Klobuchar
#9. Gay rights is just a matter of time. Look at the polls. Worrying about gay marriage, let alone gay civil unions or gay employment rights, is a middle-age issue. Young people just can't see the problem. At worst, gays are going to win this one just by waiting until the opposition dies off.
Gail Collins
#10. If I were a Catholic, I'd be asking what's going on here. I really would. "The pope also broke with his predecessors by suggesting that Catholic lawmakers are free to vote for same-sex marriage and civil unions."
Rush Limbaugh
#11. I support same-sex civil unions and I believe no should be denied their rights
George W. Bush
#12. I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.
Tony Campolo
#13. I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.
Stephen Harper
#14. I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
Gary Johnson
#15. It's ridiculous to insinuate that the social recognition of homosexual civil unions damages families or the institution of marriage.
Jens Spahn
#16. The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.
Franz Kafka
#17. Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.
Susan Glaspell
#18. The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.
Woodrow Wilson
#19. Clearly, Enlightenment thinkers were seeking a God substitute.
Nancy Pearcey
#20. The fear that permeated every fiber of my being was relentless, it was cruel, and it was my best hope for getting through this.
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
#21. The great and good ends proposed by the Illuminati, as the ultimate objects of their union, are the overthrow of religion, government, and human society civil and domestic.
Timothy Dwight IV
#22. These latter institutions [the civil service, trade unions, media of all kinds], notably of course television, but more subtly the written press, are quite spectacular powers of unreason and ignorance.
Alain Badiou
#23. Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.
James Madison
#24. Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.
Vicki Sue Robinson
#26. I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.
Todd Akin
#27. We are in a new Civil War, and just like the last, it is a struggle for the sanctity of the Union - and it's hardly civil.
Allen West
#28. You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.
Thomas Watson
#29. In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining ... . We demand this fraud be stopped.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#30. But you come with tidings of grief and danger, as is your wont, they say.' 'Because I come seldom but when my help is needed,' answered Gandalf. 'And
J.R.R. Tolkien
