The most memorable quotes in the Chattanooga Times Free Press for June 28-July 2.
“Our best advice in these instances is pretty simple: Do not discriminate. That’s the holding of the court today.”
– Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery III to county clerks on issuing marriage licenses to gay couples after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right to same-sex marriage
“Why do you want to hurt the worst of those who are already hurting the worst? And to make it a money issue is crazy.”
– Kevin Walden, president of the state’s County Veterans Service Officers Association, on the drastic scaling back of a property tax relief program for disabled veterans and the elderly