“I love that we live in a country where we have freedom of religion. I love that you can believe whatever you want to believe. You have the right to go to church and I would fight for that, but as soon as you start lobbying the government to have your religion impede on my life then people are going to get angry…”
Comedian Josh Thomas on ABCTV’s ‘Q&A’.
“I never thought of marriage as something only for men and women. But I’d never marry a guy I didn’t like. It’s about human rights. As humanity, we’ve come through so many problems from the beginning to here. I guess it finally had to come around to this. This is just another situation, another problem. We’ll work it out and move on. We’ll look back and say it was crazy that we ever even argued about this.”
Singer Willie Nelson on marriage equality in Texas Monthly
“Marriage Equality, let’s start a revolution!”
“If you like it you should put a ring on it. We will unite for marriage equality.”
Madonna and Beyonce respectively show their support for marriage equality on Facebook.
“I’ve never had a problem with it, and neither have any of my colleagues. The guys I work with, some of the camera men are gay, people behind the scenes. It doesn’t come up and it’s not an issue and neither should it be.” Channel 7 Newsreader Blake Johnson on being gay and working in the media on RTRFM’s ‘All Things Queer’