Same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage (also called gay marriage) is a legally or socially recognized marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender.
Quotes
- Under the Constitution, same-sex couples seek in marriage the same legal treatment as opposite-sex couples, and it would disparage their choices and diminish their personhood to deny them this right.
- Justice Anthony Kennedy, majority decision for Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ___ (2015).
- It's very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage. Or as I like to call ifuckt: marriage. You know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not “gay lunch”. I parked my car; I didn't “gay park” it.
- Liz Feldman, quoted in Harper, Robyn (6 June 2012), "When I Get Married, Will It Be a 'Gay Marriage'?", The Huffington Post
- Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in? Why not recruit them by the vanload to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic ne'er-do-well heterosexual deadbeats like me?
- Elizabeth Gilbert (2010), Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage, Viking
- New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are “same sex” marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex.
- Bill Maher (2005), New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
- Don't hide behind the Constitution or the Bible. If you're against gay marriage, just be honest, put a scarlet 'H' on your shirt, and say, 'I am a homophobe!'
- Henry Rollins, Talk is Cheap Volume 1 (1998)
- The truth is, the notion that gay marriage is harmful to marriage, is sort of mind-boggling, because these are people trying to get married. But it seems to me, if you want to defend marriage against something, defend it against divorce.
- Cokie Roberts, Real Time with Bill Maher, August 6, 2004.
- The exclusion of same-sex couples from the benefits and responsibilities of marriage, accordingly, is not a small and tangential inconvenience resulting from a few surviving relics of societal prejudice destined to evaporate like the morning dew. It represents a harsh if oblique statement by the law that same-sex couples are outsiders, and that their need for affirmation and protection of their intimate relations as human beings is somehow less than that of heterosexual couples.
- Justice Albie Sachs, Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another, 1 December 2005.
- Defenders of marriage / Defending the institution against people who wanna get married
- Roy Zimmerman, “Defenders of Marriage” (song) (1998), Faulty Intelligence (album)