“Civil rights issues should not be put on the ballot. ... How is my marriage under attack if two gays or lesbians down the street want to make a lifelong commitment to themselves ... Love is bigger than government. Government should not have the right to tell you who you fall in love with and who you want to spend your life with. ... I don’t like it when I see human rights violated. ... We are not the Hetero States of America. America should be inclusive, not separating.”

“Gay marriage is simply not a civil rights issue. It is not a struggle for freedom. It is a struggle of already free people for complete social acceptance and the sense of normalcy that follows thereof – a struggle for the eradication of the homosexual stigma. Marriage is a goal because, once open to gays, it would establish the fundamental innocuousness of homosexuality itself. Marriage can say like nothing else that sexual orientation is an utterly neutral human characteristic, like eye-color. Thus, it can go far in diffusing the homosexual stigma.”

“The argument against legalizing gay marriage must be the same as the argument against legalizing drugs: If you legalize gay marriage, everyone will want to do it. Clearly, we all have these massive, pent-up, homosexual urges waiting to erupt, once we get the giddyap go-ahead from the government. George Bush and Dick Cheney might take up residence together in a simply darling Crystal City duplex. If gays are allowed to get married, guys like me will start looking at our wives and think, wait a minute, I have to settle for this weak little, squeaky-voiced, thong-wearing thing when Sylvester Stallone is available?”

“You know what, I am gay, but my sexuality has never been my defining quality. It’s just a fact. My life is defined by my friends and by my interests, and I happen to be passionate about good design.”