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Marriage equality changed life for people.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

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.

All men, and women, and everything in between are created equal.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

Since the dawn of time, traditional marriage - the union between one man and one woman - has been the building block of civilization, and at no point in our nation's history has that foundation been under more severe attack than now.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers.