1.
If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: 'The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,' I would hide my head in a bag. The Supreme Court of the United States has descended from the disciplined legal reasoning of John Marshall and Joseph Story to the mystical aphorisms of the fortune cookie.
Antonin Scalia
2.
To allow the policy question of same-sex marriage to be considered and resolved by a select, patrician, highly unrepresentative panel of nine is to violate a principle even more fundamental than no taxation without representation: no social transformation without representation.
Antonin Scalia
3.
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
Jimmy Carter
4.
I think the best day will be when we no longer talk about being gay or straight... It's not a gay wedding, it's just a wedding... It's not a gay marriage, it's just a marriage.
Pink
5.
The Constitution contains no 'dignity' Clause, and even if it did, the government would be incapable of bestowing dignity. ... Slaves did not lose their dignity (any more than they lost their humanity) because the government allowed them to be enslaved. Those held in internment camps did not lose their dignity because the government confined them. And those denied governmental benefits certainly do not lose their dignity because the government denies them those benefits.
Clarence Thomas
6.
The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
7.
I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
James Carville
8.
The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity.
Anthony Kennedy
10.
I think people should be able to do what they want to do.
Jonathan Davis
12.
Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
Lady Gaga
13.
I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people.
Joel Osteen
14.
If You don't like Gay Marriage, Don't Marry a Gay Person.
Whoopi Goldberg
16.
Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. The outcome of this debate is important-and so is the way we conduct it. The same moral tradition that defines marriage also teaches that each individual has dignity and value in God's sight.
George W. Bush
17.
I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
Clare Balding
19.
Gay marriage considered immoral by all the world's religions.
Jim DeMint
20.
To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.
Margaret Cho