“They would come in the morning and use the women’s bathrooms, but the women were annoyed, didn’t like it or played pranks on them. The men teased them, chased them, and they came screaming and in tears again. We don’t support their decision to be transvestites. We are just trying to solve the problems of one group that is unhappy at school. They don’t get teased in the bathroom anymore. They’re much happier.”

“The overall thrust of this [Bush] administration is not my father’s – these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive and just plain corrupt. I don’t trust these people.”

“The right to marry ought to be clear, unambiguous, emphatic, and non-contradictory. It should not be minimized, given an asterisk, or subject to political sacrifice at political conventions.”

“I have a sneaking suspicion that this [gay marriage] is not an issue many people [opponents] want to stay worked up about. ... You don’t hear Bush talking about it very often. He talks about it once every few months, then drops it. That may be reflective of what they’ve learned about how much people want to hear about this.”