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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.

GAY MARRIAGE QUOT

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.

IN QUOT: GAY MARRIAGE BATE

""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. ”-- 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.

GAY MARRIAGE BATE QUOT

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.

GAY MARRIAGE

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.

SHOULD GAY MARRIAGE BE LEGAL?

“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. 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.

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

“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.

OBAMA BACKS 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.

"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.