“We were trying to impress upon him how hurtful his comments were, and we were taken aback that a person in his position would make such remarks and not apologize for them. He got a little upset and started telling us about the privacy laws and that he is an attorney and that we were just parents. We weren’t there to make a legal argument.”

“I got pregnant when I was 16 and I aborted a child. I know what it feels like to be poor, pregnant and 16 and scared. Had I known about Planned Parenthood and gotten the pill, it wouldn’t have even had to happen.”

“The real danger of gay marriage is that it will undermine the taboo on adultery, thereby destroying the final bastion protecting marriage: the ethos of monogamy.... Gay marriage threatens monogamy because homosexual couples — particularly male homosexual couples — tend to see monogamy as nonessential, even to the most loyal and committed relationships. Of course, advocates argue that legal gay marriage will change all that — that marriage will make gays more monogamous. But it is just as likely (indeed, far more likely) that the effect will go in the other direction — openly non-monogamous married gay couples will break the connection between marriage and monogamy [for straight people]. “