So far 44 States or 88 percent of the States have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

If someone talks about union fidelity a monogamous relationship love blessing I would say it sounds like marriage to me. And blessing you see I think is undermining our sacrament of marriage.

My argument is simple which is that for several thousand years in Western civilization marriage has been the union of one man and one woman. Research is overwhelming that children need mothers and fathers.

How long before we have not just homosexual marriage but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

Marriage is not just spiritual communion it is also remembering to take out the trash.

I have no difficulty with the recognition of civil unions for non-traditional relationships but I believe in law we should protect the traditional definition of marriage.

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.