“Prop 8 was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Stonewall happened for a reason. Stonewall happened because people were tired of being beaten down. They were tired of having rules where they couldn’t touch in public. They were tired of actual laws out there against same-sex couples holding hands. People reacted and all of the sudden the nation reacted. And I think the same thing is happening now. Prop 8 passed and everybody throughout California started protesting. Forty years later we have a new, immediate reason to protest.”

“Let’s try for a minute to take the religious conservatives at their word and define marriage as the Bible does. Shall we look to Abraham, the great patriarch, who slept with his servant when he discovered his beloved wife Sarah was infertile? Or to Jacob, who fathered children with four different women (two sisters and their servants)? Abraham, Jacob, David, Solomon and the kings of Judah and Israel – all these fathers and heroes were polygamists. The New Testament model of marriage is hardly better. Jesus himself was single and preached an indifference to earthly attachments – especially family. The apostle Paul (also single) regarded marriage as an act of last resort for those unable to contain their animal lust. … Would any contemporary heterosexual married couple – who likely woke up on their wedding day harboring some optimistic and newfangled ideas about gender equality and romantic love turn to the Bible as a how-to script? Of course not, yet the religious opponents of gay marriage would have it be so.”