“A domestic partnership is a good thing, and we can respect fellow members of the LGBT community who make that decision. But at the end of the day, we want to be married”

SOUNDBITES — “We absolutely stand by that. We appreciate the work that’s been done to get those [domestic partnership] rights. But it still relegates us to a level of second-class citizenship. In the absence of no rights at all, a domestic partnership is a good thing, and we can respect fellow members of the LGBT community who make that decision. But at the end of the day, we want to be married.” —Perry plaintiff Jeff Zarrillo on why, having been banned from securing a marriage license, he and partner Paul Katami didn’t seek a DP (via)