The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality birth within marriage parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

I think of marriage as a garden. You have to tend to it. Respect it take care of it feed it. Make sure everyone is getting the right amount of um sunlight.

The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

After a few years of marriage a man can look right at a woman without seeing her and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called you know domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called.

After marriage a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.

I don't think marriage is a civil right but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that I think express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals that allow them to be to transfer property between partners to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.