Dyana Mason Quotations

We're growing in our efforts and abilities to work on multiple issues at once. Ultimately, we will prevail, but there are a lot of obstacles in the way. We need to educate people and elect more fair-minded representatives.

Now that McDonnell has removed the primary excuse given for the failure to act that it was not necessary to do so we will be looking to the legislature to make it clear what the state's policy is. If the members of the General Assembly refuse to make an affirmative statement, one must only assume that they think it's appropriate to discriminate.

He had to jump through some legal hoops to issue this opinion. It leads us to believe it was more about political ideology than legal standing.

I think the fact that questions weren't even raised shows this bill was misguided from the start.

Our goal was basically to make sure the voters clearly knew what the amendment would mean and what it would do.

Our question is what are they afraid of? Why do they feel they have to rush it? Why do they feel it's important to mislead voters on the ballot.

I think personally the bill was misguided from the start.

The amendment goes far beyond just defining marriage between a man and a woman. What it does is prohibit recognition for all unmarried couples in the state.

We were smart and strategic in sending a message to some of our harshest opponents. I think they recognize that it is probably not a wise idea to focus solely on the social issues.

We're very pleased. The most important thing is voters know exactly what they're voting on.

We're very happy the Senate chose to keep the full text of the amendment as the ballot question. It's really important that voters know what their vote will mean when they cast it in November. We look forward to having that discussion with the voters.

It really is just a thinly veiled attempt to allow school boards to discriminate.

Not one piece of testimony on behalf of this measure has been able to demonstrate how amending the Virginia Constitution to prohibit marriage equality for same-sex couples, civil unions and other marriage look-alikes would somehow strengthen or protect heterosexual marriage.

It's really an attack on all Virginia families. Even the proponents of the bill recognized there were all these exceptions and generalities.