"The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category."

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Source : "Redefining marriage to include same-sex couples would benefit nobody" by John Sentamu, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

John Sentamu

#Couple Quotes #Gay Quotes #Needs Quotes

“We cannot change the hearts of the people of the South, but we can make war so terrible that they will realize the fact that however brave and gallant and devoted to their country still they are mortal and should exhaust all peaceful remedies before they fly to war.”
“When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor.”
“I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it”
“A man who cannot control his temper is not very likely to control his passions, and no matter what his pretensions in religion, he moves in daily life very close to the animal plane.”
“In some ways, I think it's the closest that we come to the truth â€” is in the form of fiction.”
“I don’t like San Francisco. I love it!”
“I'm not always successful, but I take my job as a storyteller very seriously and want to make sure the audience has as much fun watching it as I am creating it.”
“I am a cat. As yet I have no name”

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