Steve Largent: “I want to address the last speaker's comments and say that, first, we…”

On the recordJuly 11, 1996

I want to address the last speaker's comments and say that, first, we need to step back from trees and look at the forest and try to take a long view of our culture, and we can look at history and show that no culture that has ever embraced homosexuality has ever survived. Second, I would say that what this same-sex marriage is seeking is State sanction of their relationship. There is nothing that prevents the gentleman from Massachusetts right now from having a loving relationship with his significant other, no matter what their sexes are. I think we need to be very civil and very professional on this House floor. We each have 30 minutes, let us use our 30 minutes. Let us talk, and I think first of all understand this is not an issue between the parties.

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Steve Largent

Oklahoma

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Discussing the implications of same-sex marriage during a House floor debate.

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