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Published Thursday, 01-Jul-2010 in issue 1175
“I think if two people love each other, then what the hell? I think that everyone should have the chance to be equally miserable, if they want.”
“I do believe that God created male and female and intended for marriage to be the relationship of the two opposite sexes. Male and female are biologically compatible to have a relationship. We can get into the ick factor, but the fact is two men in a relationship, two women in a relationship, biologically, that doesn’t work the same.”
“Brilliant. Love him. Want him (lawyer Ted Olson) on our side on all the issues we care about.”
“(Pro-Prop-8 lawyer Charles) Cooper (says the) evidence showed lesbians especially change their sexual orientation many times. This explains my desire to schtoup George Clooney.”
“The plaintiffs’ witnesses were quite candid and unequivocal and uniform that sexual orientation does change. It does change over time. And it apparently changes especially in — in women.”
“‘We’ve always done it that way,’ is the ... corollary to ‘Because I say so.’ It’s not a reason (to restrict marriage to a man and a woman).”
“We are imposing great damage on them (same-sex couples) by the ... state of California saying they are different and they cannot have the happiness, they cannot have the privacy, they cannot have the liberty, they cannot have the intimate association in the context of a marriage that the rest of our citizens do. We have demonstrated during this trial that that causes grave and permanent, irreparable and totally unnecessary harm, because we are withholding from them ... that right of marriage in the context of the intimate relationship. We are withholding that from them, hurting them and we are doing no good.”
“It seems fair to say that the trickle of events (from the Obama administration) has flowed into a slow but steady stream of smaller, yet meaningful, policy gains for LGBT Americans. But given that the ‘hope’ president came to the White House endowed with heavy Democratic majorities in Congress and a mandate to forge a fresh course for our country, what could have amounted to a watershed moment for LGBT equality has felt less like a waterfall than the drip from a leaky faucet. Sure, water is getting through, but not nearly enough to fortify or sustain a vilified minority that has been systematically burned by a swarm of homophobic laws that swept the nation as the vast majority of politicians either cheered or turned a convenient blind eye.”
“Plain and simple, on the big ticket items — the ones that matter most like employment nondiscrimination and repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ and the Defense of Marriage Act — leadership from the White House has been scarce at worst and inconsistent at best.”
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