Tammy Baldwin actually said...

Being treated so unfairly now because of who I love is more than a matter of fairness; it is an issue of civil rights.

The government to which I have devoted 33 years of my working life will not honor my partnership because I love another woman, not a man.

This issue is hard only because we make it so.

We have families that we love, that we need to take care of, just as you do.