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It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

When I got married, my marriage was illegal in 17 states because my husband had a different skin color than I did. And we saw those laws go down one at a time.

There are more than 30 states, who either by statute or constitutional amendment, have defined marriage as being between a man and a woman.

Most people don't want to get married. Being married, that's a responsibility.

So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

The marriage state was designed to complete the sum of human happiness in this life. It sometimes proves otherwise, but this is owing to the parties themselves, who either rush into it without due consideration or fail in point of discretion in their conduct towards each other afterwards.