I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.

When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not.

I'm not in this just to change the law. It's about changing society. I want gay kids to grow up believing that they can get married, that they can join the Scouts, that they can choose the life they want to live.

I think there's tremendous significance and opportunity in Americans seeing legally married gay couples treated with respect in our nation's capital.

Marriage is a language of love, equality, and inclusion.

What is so powerful here is that we have the first federal appellate court and it's a case coming out of Utah affirming in the strongest, clearest, boldest terms that the Constitution guarantees the freedom to marry and equal protection for all Americans and all means all, including gay couples.

Marriage is not defined by who is denied it. When gay people share in the freedom to marry, it doesn't change your marriage.