quote for the day

"You cannot give me, if we are all created equal, an argument that says I cannot marry my partner. You cannot tell me there is any definition other than to say I am not really a human being like all the rest of you heterosexual human beings. ... Unless you are willing to look me in the face and say I'm not a human being just like you are, you have no right to deny me marriage in the state of California or anywhere else."

-Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, a Los Angeles Democrat who is one of six gay members of the Legislature and has been in a relationship with the same woman for 26 years.