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Equal protection under the law - for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation - should not be subject to the most popular sentiments of the day.

After lengthy consideration, my views have evolved sufficiently to support marriage equality legislation. This position doesn't require any religious denomination to alter any of its tenets; it simply forbids government from discrimination regarding who can marry whom.

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

The word 'equality' shows up too much in our founding documents for anyone to pretend it's not the American way.

The only way to ensure equality for women is to clearly declare it in our Constitution.

I believe that all men and women are created equal, but it took our country until 1920 to acknowledge this for women. And then it took until 1964, the year before I was born, to outlaw discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. And same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.