More From Ted Olson
- "The United States Supreme Court has repeatedly held that marriage is one of the most fundamental rights that we have as Americans under our Constitution."
- "The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional."
- "Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?"
More In Sympathy
- "If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point."― Dirk Benedict
- "I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave – and nothing but laughter to console them with."― John Irving
- "Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality."― George William Russell