Gay Marriage Quot (60 quot)

Contents:

• 16 QUOT FROM POLICIANS THAT REMD US WHAT GAY MARRIAGE IS REALLY ABOUT: LOVE
• GAY MARRIAGE QUOT
• IN QUOT: GAY MARRIAGE BATE
• GAY MARRIAGE BATE QUOT
• GAY MARRIAGE
• SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?
• THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’
• OBAMA BACKS GAY MARRIAGE

16 QUOT FROM POLICIANS THAT REMD US WHAT GAY MARRIAGE IS REALLY ABOUT: LOVE

As the State self mak marriage all the more prec by the signifince attach to , excln om that stat has the effect of teachg that gays and lbians are unequal important rpects. Bee the immediate nsequence, if gay marriage go through, is that K-12 ltle children will be forced to learn that homosexualy is normal, natural, and perhaps they should try .

After the Supreme Court’s 5-4 cisn Friday that legalized gay marriage all 50 stat, both supporters and dissenters took to social media to share their opns on the lg. S., which challeng the nstutnaly of the Defense of Marriage Act -- were cid by the Supreme Court, a look back at some of the bt quot on gay marriage om policians:"I have to tell you that over the urse of several years as I have talked to iends and fay and neighbors when I thk about members of my own staff who are credibly mted monogamo relatnships, same-sex relatnships, who are raisg kids together, when I thk about those soldiers or airmen or Mar or sailors who are out there fightg on my behalf and yet feel nstraed, even now that Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, bee they are not able to m themselv a marriage, at a certa pot I’ve jt nclud that for me personally is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I thk same sex upl should be able to get married. ""Wh the notn of marriage – an exclive, emotnal, bdg ‘til ath do you part’ tie – beg more and more an exceptn to the le given a rise habatn and high rat of divorce, why should the feral ernment be tellg adults who love one another that they nnot get married, simply bee they happen to be gay?

""I do have thgs I would like to see adopted on behalf of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr people: they clu the right to marry the dividual of our choice; the right to serve the ary to fend our untry; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifitns.

GAY MARRIAGE QUOT

”-- Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office"I uld be wrong, but I thk heterosexual marriage is threatened more by heterosexuals.

IN QUOT: GAY MARRIAGE BATE

Bin, 77, grew up an era when homosexualy, the word routely ed at the time, was often viewed as a s and even a n slip to dated generalizatns about gay and lbian life, as he did an terview wh Anrson Cooper at an L. Talkg about what San Francis was like “15, 20 years ago, ” he said that the cy, wh s large muny of gay men and lbians, was “all about, well, you know, gay bathho, ” addg, “It’s all about round-the-clock sex.

“There’s no polil barometer that would have told him to get ahead of the Whe Hoe on this, ” said Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., who is gay and ran agast Mr.

His mg about gay men and lbians as secury risks 1973, and his support for a measure rtrictg how homosexualy was prented to schoolchildren, reflects the kd of attus that gay and lbian activists had to battle durg the early s of the movement. Tmp’s admistratn, by ntrast, urged the Supreme Court, unsuccsfully, not to extend the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s protectns agast workplace discrimatn to gay and transgenr people.

GAY MARRIAGE BATE QUOT

Bin’s own history on gay rights — along wh llg Mike Pence, the nservative vice print, a “cent guy” — ma him vulnerable to cricism om the left as he sought the Democratic printial nomatn. “As queer people, we abhor the way that Bin, his eagerns to reach across the aisle, wds up beg an apologist for homophob like Mike Pence, ” Cynthia Nixon, the actrs and activist who challenged Andrew M. Bin’s standg among gay and lbian activists was his appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Prs” as vice print 2012 when, rponse to a qutn, he said he supported same-sex marriage.

More about Adam NagourneyA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 13 of the New York edn wh the headle: As Bin Evolved on Gay Rights, the Country Went Wh Him. Homophobia had s adherents and some thls climber up the executive ladr would certaly love an opportuny to e … 'Better to be seen wh a woman, ’ we were advised by a very tsted iend, ‘Mak everyone more fortable. “Wh Pary, Internatnal Women's Day and, more recently, the Chienn Gar, and, more generally, wh every claim to victimal difference, women are makg themselv a llective lghg stock, alongsi gays, wh their mand for a bourgeois, legal, maral stat.

"Stephen Gilbert, Liberal Democrat "We have e a long way a short space of time but is absolutely right we take the next step and livers full legal equaly for lbian, gay and bisexual people our untry.

GAY MARRIAGE

Havg been different for most of my life, I n assure you that beg treated equal is very wele ed and we still have some way to go, not jt the area of gay people but other areas. This fah was somethg that grew over time, but my adolcence I began to realise that I was gay, and beg gay a small Welsh village really was like beg the only gay the village. A gay uple have no obligatn to make that vow bee they do not have to forsake all others bee they nnot divorce for adultery – there is no requirement for fahfulns.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

"Nick Herbert, Conservative MP for Anl and South Downs: "Are the marriag of lns of straight people about to be threatened bee a few thoand gay people are permted to jo? "David Cameron ( a tweet after the vote): "Strong views exist on both sis but I believe MPs votg for gay people beg able to marry too, is a step forward for our untry.

CNN Senr Legal Analyst Jeff Toob pots out that Slia’s tone on homosexualy has changed the ten years sce he dissented another opn that Kennedy read - the se of Lawrence v. “Many Amerins do not want persons who openly engage homosexual nduct as partners their bs, as sutmasters for their children, as teachers their children’s schools, or as boarrs their home, ” Slia wrote 2003.

Early Years: Same-Sex Marriage Bans In 1970, jt one year after the historic Stonewall Rts that galvanized the gay rights movement, law stunt Richard Baker and librarian Jam McConnell applied for a marriage license Gerald Nelson rejected their applitn bee they were a same-sex uple, and a trial urt upheld his cisn. ” This lg effectively blocked feral urts om lg on same-sex marriage for s, leavg the cisn solely the hands of stat, which alt blow after blow to those hopg to see gay marriage beg 1973, for stance, Maryland beme the first state to create a law that explicly f marriage as a unn between a man and woman, a belief held by many nservative relig groups.

THE ABSURD CLAIM THAT TMP IS THE ‘MOST PRO-GAY PRINT AMERIN HISTORY’

Though the gay rights movement saw some advancements the 1970s and 1980s—such as Harvey Milk beg the first openly gay man elected to public office the untry 1977—the fight for gay marriage ma ltle headway for many years.

In 1989, the San Francis Board of Supervisors passed an ordance that allowed homosexual upl and unmarried heterosexual upl to register for domtic partnerships, which granted hospal visatn rights and other years later, the District of Columbia siarly passed a new law that allowed same-sex upl to register as domtic partners. C., 1993, the hight urt Hawaii led that a ban on same-sex marriage may vlate that state nstutn’s Equal Protectn Clse—the first time a state urt has ever ched toward makg gay marriage Hawaii Supreme Court sent the se—brought by a gay male uple and two lbian upl who were nied marriage licens 1990—back for further review to the lower First Circu Court, which 1991 origally dismissed the the state tried to prove that there was “pellg state tert” jtifyg the ban, the se would be tied up ligatn for the next three Defense of Marriage Act Opponents of gay marriage, however, did not s on their hnch.

OBAMA BACKS GAY MARRIAGE

Congrs 1996 passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which Print Bill Clton signed to didn’t ban gay marriage outright but specified that only heterosexual upl uld be granted feral marriage benefs. That is, even if a state ma gay marriage legal, same-sex upl still wouldn’t be able to file e tax jotly, sponsor spo for immigratn benefs or receive spoal Social Secury payments, among many other act was a huge setback for the marriage equaly movement, but transient good news arose three months later: Hawaii Judge Kev S. Phg for Change: Civil Unns The next saw a whirlwd of activy on the gay marriage ont, begng wh the year 2000 when Vermont beme the first state to legalize civil unns, a legal stat that provis most of the state-level benefs of years later, Massachetts beme the first state to legalize gay marriage when the Massachetts Supreme Court led that same-sex upl had the right to marry Goodridge v.

2004 was notable for upl many other stat as well, though for the oppose reason: Ten typilly nservative stat, along wh Oregon, enacted state-level bans on gay marriage.