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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

We live in a world where we have friends, neighbors, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, people we journey with for years who are gay. And we need to love, affirm and all of us together work on the real problems that we have in the world.

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

I have a lot of LGBT friends and family members and I've always supported the community, not only as a child but as an adult, and I think it's important to voice that.

It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

I'm always going to support the LGBT community and equal rights for the LGBT community.

I know gay parents, and I support them and their families. They are good parents and loving families.

I don't think it's the responsibility of gays and lesbians to reinvent the family.

I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.