Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws Constitution and legal precedents.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of to me... as a legal ceremonial sentimental and religious side it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps like not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless and they should be called marriages.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However most of us don't want to call it marriage because we think that word has religious connotations and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage in reality does not help these people.

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage and allowing them to live together with the protection of law it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country.

Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Each experience I go through - marriage my public life my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.