Cynthia Nixon Defends Marriage Equality

Speaking at The New Yorker Festival on Saturday, actress Cynthia Nixon told an audience that gay people don't want to redefine marriage but simply want to be invited to the table.

Nixon, along with people like Bishop Gene Robinson, Prop. 8 lawyer David Boies, and National Organization for Marriage president Brian Brown, debated marriage equality at the festival for a panel called "Love and Obstacles: The Case for Gay Marriage."

"When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting," Nixon said. "When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out. They were simply invited to the table. That is all we want to do; we have no desire to change marriage. We want to be entitled to not only the same privileges but the same responsibilities as straight people."

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