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Good production is like a beautiful marriage. It makes a happy home.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the definition of a marriage as between one man and one woman.

Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.

I figure no matter how old you are, it is always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it is a piece of humbug.

Gay marriage has jumped out of the closet on to the front page. Everyone from the president of the U.S. to retired four-star general Colin Powell is embracing the issue, now supported by most Americans. Still, a few people, like former First Lady Laura Bush appear to be conflicted.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It is the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

I was one of 14 senators to vote against the Defense of Marriage Act. I thought it was a harsh and unnecessary thing to do to people across this country who care enough about each other to want to be married.

At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

I believe in the sanctity of marriage.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It was not when I started.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it is do not talk about it.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

I took the fear of marriage from my parents relationship, because I did not want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they did not carry it on into their own marriages.

I do not think he cheated on me. During the marriage, I think he was there.

I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.