Political Quotes

“The potential exists if DOMA is maintained and protected that you could have--let us just say some of the more liberal State courts that we have out there, whether it is Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, New York, big States--most of these are actually fairly large States that we are talking about--if marriage were defined in those States and let us say not in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Utah, or Alabama, what would be the result? How would America function? What would marriage be in America? What would be the environment in which we would be living? It is a very interesting question we are now faced with just in Massachusetts, but we have sort of seen one isolated little case that is still in question. But as an accepted matter that there are now in many States potentially couples who are married who are not traditional couples, what would be the impact on our society?”