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.

Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

I think that sense of humor is important in marriage. A sense of humor gets people through marriage.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long long way in a marriage.

Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.

I believe the home and marriage is the foundation of our society and must be protected.

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

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.

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity.

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness fewer marriages would end in tears.

I've done an informal anecdotal survey about marriage and I've found no evidence that it brings happiness.