Same Sex Quotes

#1. Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this.

Henry Rollins

#2. If your church is not going to support the committed same-sex relationships of LGBT congregants, be honest about that. Bait-and-switch is deceptively un-Christ-like and serves to push gay and transgender believers farther away each time the deception happens.

Kathy Baldock

#3. If a young person experiences same-sex attraction, nothing you can say will change that experience. However, what you say can impact whether or not that student feels safe with you and whether or not they will be willing to share their story with you.

Wendy Vanderwal-Gritter

#4. Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own.

Hugh Hefner

#5. If we really want to cherish religious freedom, people who want to believe that same-sex marriage should take place, they have a right to believe that, and people who want to believe it's inappropriate, we should not demonize those people - if we really believe in religious liberty.

Foster Friess

#6. Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.

Stevie Wonder

#7. After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that 'Same Love' allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.

Mary Lambert

#8. [Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is because they haven't come into contact with gay and lesbian couples enough to understand that it's about love and that it is a civil right.

Jennifer Beals

#9. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.

Coretta Scott King

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

Lindsey Graham

#11. To the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another ... as you love yourself, love thy neighbor'

Manny Pacquiao

#12. I suspect Reuben Abati is the product of same sex marriage

Femi Fani-Kayode

#13. When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those who were opposed to interracial marriage], will again seem an obvious pretext for discrimination.

Robert Lewis Hinkle

#14. After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California

Jerry Brown

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

Franklin Graham

#16. Christians must engage in "spiritual warfare" to combat same-sex marriage.

Michele Bachmann

#17. We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships, we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes, some work in breweries.

Pete Coors

#18. I don't see why ogling same-sex kissing should be the exclusive domain of frat boys whacking off to lesbian action, that's so sexist. Feminism should be all inclusive- it should be about sexual liberation, equal pay for equal work, and the fundamental girl right of boy2boy appreciation.

Rachel Cohn

#19. That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.

Rob Portman

#20. I saw with so many of the gay couples, they were so devoted to another. I saw so much love. When this hearing was over, I was a changed person in regard to this issue. I felt that I understood what same-sex couples were looking for.

Wade Kach

#21. Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.

Vladimir Putin

#22. In the arena of friendship and in sharp contrast to today, men were perceived to be far superior to women at forging bonds with members of the same sex, in part because women were expected to save their empathy and relational resources for their husbands.

Anonymous

#23. Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Stockwell Day

#24. After much deliberation, and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed.

Bob Casey Jr.

#25. Discriminating against same-sex couples just isn't right.

Michelle Obama

#26. Same-sex marriage will lead to "fathers marrying sons."

Jeremy Irons

#27. If I'm told I have to marry same sex couples I will refuse.

Todd Starnes

#28. Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Maggie Gallagher

#29. 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?

Ted Olson

#30. I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relationships.

Hillary Clinton

#31. Old white guys can be a funny bunch, can't they? The same anti-same-sex marriage, anti-affirmative action cadre can flower into the biggest supporters of 'equality' the minute they get a whiff of minority empowerment.

John Ridley

#32. Few bars in New York, even gay bars, permitted same-sex dancing.

Ann Bausum

#33. In my heart, I really don't care who you love, same sex or not; as long as you have the ability to love, that's the important thing here.

Tracy Morgan

#34. We cannot say to one couple that their love is deserving of marriage and to another that their love should only be called a partnership. 'Separate but equal' is never equal. Children of same-sex couples should not grow up wondering why their family is treated differently from other families

Christine Gregoire

#35. If Britney Spears can party it up in Vegas with one of her boys and go get married on a whim and annul her marriage the next day, why can't a loving same sex couple tie the knot?

Brendon Ayanbadejo

#36. I oppose same-sex marriage but I would advance equal rights in employment for gay and lesbian people. I appointed a few judges who were gay and I had few people in my cabinet that I found out were gay. I never asked peoples sexual orientation.

Mitt Romney

#37. However saying that I totally support the concept of civil partnerships in the eyes of the law, and think it a disgrace that same sex couples have had to wait so long for legal rights, protection and recognition.

Adam Rickitt

#38. Same sex marriage isn't gay privilege, it's equal rights. Privilege would be something like gay people not paying taxes. Like churches don't.

Ricky Gervais

#39. I was appalled and shocked that Bush used the State of the Union to attack same-sex marriages and indicated that he would support a constitutional amendment.

Jean O'Leary

#40. 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

#41. The government shouldn't be involved in this because it's very simple. If you don't believe in same-sex marriage, then don't marry somebody of the same sex.

Wanda Sykes

#42. Asking who's the 'man' and who's the 'woman' in a same-sex relationship is like asking which chopstick is the fork.

Ellen DeGeneres

#43. Newt Gingrich is against same-sex marriage. Well, actually, he's against same-marriage sex.

David Letterman

#44. Whatever the long-term legal prospects for same-sex marriage, President Obama's willingness to put the matter front and center in an election year can at least make him a candidate for inclusion in Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.

Robert Dallek

#45. Same-sex marriage is not a gay privilege, it's equal rights ...

Ricky Gervais

#46. Aristophanes says we were all four-legged creatures to start, some the same sex, but most half man and half woman. Zeus was afraid us humans would get too powerful so he sliced us right down the middle, and everybody spends their life looking for the matching piece.

Scott Turow

#47. The interesting thing for me about the debate about same-sex marriage is that it's one of those issues where it has no impact on anyone apart from the people that it impacts upon. So I find it quite bewildering that it's - that it's so complicated for people.

Cate Blanchett

#48. It may be that same-sex couples will save the institution of marriage.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#49. If two people of the same sex fall in love and want to marry, why would our government stand in their way?

Bob Casey Jr.

#50. At some moments, you feel attracted to someone of the same sex, even if it's not sexual. You just want to be like him.

Takashi Miike

#51. Is anyone saying same-sex couples can't love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?

Rick Santorum

#52. Those against same-sex marriage aren't thinking straight (or are they)?

Kenneth Cole

#53. 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.

Gary Bauer

#54. Same sex marriage must be decided by the states, and by the people in the states, not by judges and not even by legislators, but by the people themselves.

Liz Cheney

#55. I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.

Lord Byron

#56. I've praised Obama's record on same-sex equality as enthusiastically as anyone: it's one area where his record has been impressive. I understand, and have expressed, the emotional importance for LGBT Americans of his marriage announcement as well as its political significance.

Glenn Greenwald

#57. With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.

Michael Franti

#58. The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

Paul Martin

#59. Klaus Mann saw very clearly how different was his own (more liberated) form of homosexuality from the same-sex attractions of his father - and that is reiterated in TM's diary queries about "how two men can sleep together".

Philip Kitcher

#60. It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

Mary Cheney

#61. It [masturbation] too often leads to grievous sin, even to that sin against nature, homosexuality. For, done in private, it evolves often into mutual masturbation - practiced with another person of the same sex - and thence into total homosexuality.

Spencer W. Kimball

#62. I was once involved in a same-sex marriage. There was the same sex over and over and over.

David Letterman

#63. I didn't know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

Mary Cheney

#64. The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?

Barack Obama

#65. Obama is for same-sex marriage. If the president is saying that, then who am I to go the other way?

Curtis Jackson

#66. Marriage as an institution is not so much threatened by same-sex couples as it is by heterosexuals' increasing indifference to it,

Mike Huckabee

#67. Proponents of same-sex marriage regularly label opponents 'radical' and 'extremist.' However, given that no society in thousands of years has allowed same-sex marriage, it is, by definition, the proponents of same-sex marriage whose position is radical and extreme.

Dennis Prager

#68. Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.

Neil Tennant

#69. It is because of me - I definitely think [my show] has helped the movement. Before it came out, everyone was still a little apprehensive about [same sex relationships]. Then they realized, 'Wow, everyone is really into this stuff, and it is fine.' The next thing you know, [gay marriage] is legal.

Tila Tequila

#70. But the fact that same-sex marriage is still an issue is insane. Thinking love knows a sex is ridiculous.

Garret Dillahunt

#71. Same-sex couples should have equal rights to full benefits both state and federal level. I support repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell because it hasn't worked and military should based on conduct not your sexual orientation

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#72. The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.

Elliott Abrams

#73. Although the governor strongly disagrees with the court substituting its judgment for the constitutional process of the elected branches or a vote of the people, the court has now spoken clearly as to their view of the New Jersey Constitution, and, therefore, same-sex marriage is the law.

Chris Christie

#74. I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine.

Barack Obama

#75. No matter how great the differences are between men and women, the differences among members of the same sex are usually equally great if not greater.

Joyce Brothers

#76. It becomes dangerous for somebody who doesn't want their boss to know their sexual preference to use online networks to push for laws supporting gay marriage or same-sex partner rights if they can't do so with a pseudonym.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#77. I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God.

Manny Pacquiao

#78. The church should be the safest place on the planet to talk about anything, including same-sex attraction.

Andy Stanley

#79. If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.

Robert Mugabe

#80. Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

Ken Mehlman

#81. My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Andrew Sullivan

#82. Redefining marriage will have huge implications for what is taught in our schools, and for wider society. It will redefine society since the institution of marriage is one of the fundamental building blocks of society. The repercussions of enacting same-sex marriage into law will be immense.

Keith O'Brien

#83. A Pew survey released this week found that 57 percent of Americans favor allowing same-sex marriage, while 39 percent oppose it. Just five years ago, only 42 percent of Americans supported same-sex marriage, while 48 percent opposed it.

Anonymous

#84. Raccoons don't need to do poppers in order to come while they're having anonymous same-sex interludes in a highway rest area.

Doug Stanhope

#85. I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many.

Amy Davidson

#86. Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

Stockwell Day

#87. One way or the other , the case coming before a federal judge in Miami July 2 challenging Florida's 6-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriages could be the next shoe to drop.

Anonymous

#88. I believe most people are born with the potential to have same-sex and opposite-sex attractions. However, homophobia creates an internal split, locking up a natural part of a person's psyche, sometimes to the point where the person is unaware that part exists.

Charlotte Sophia Kasl

#89. What I've found in doing research is that men want a relationship that feels fun. In other words, they want a relationship that has qualities or elements of their same-sex relationships - just like women do, too.

Hill Harper

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

Barack Obama

#91. Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

Rick Perry

#92. According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS ... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city.

Star Parker

#93. Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this earth is limited, I know that better than most. Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back- government has no place in the middle.

Mark Kirk

#94. Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

Malcolm Turnbull

#95. All humans are the same sex, except albinos.

Lester Bangs

#96. 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.

Henry Rollins

#97. It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties.

Richard Land

#98. I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.

Joel Osteen

#99. It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else.

Barack Obama

#100. The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children, intended or unintended-is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously ...

Richard Posner