Make no mistake, I am a Christian and I believe in God and I don’t
believe he makes mistakes, so I believe that being gay is not a sin and in fact
it’s how you’re made. - Actress Kristin Chenowith appearing on The Joy Behar Show
We need marriage equality in every state in this nation. Otherwise, no
state really has marriage equality, and we will not rest until it is a reality. -New York Governor Andrew Cuomo
People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of
the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women having sex. Our
generation defines it from a more emotional standpoint. To be gay means you are
drawn to the same sex. But it’s a part of who you are, an identity, not an act. -J. Edgar screenwriter Dustin Lance Black in a WSJ interview.
We speak for the entire Giants organization when we say that there is no
place in society for hatred and bullying against anyone. -San Francisco Giants pitcher Barry
Zito in the first “It Gets Better” video made by a
major league sports team
Like being a woman, like being a racial religious tribal or ethnic
minority, being LGBT does not make you less human. And that is why gay rights
are Human Rights and Human Rights are gay rights. -Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton in a speech to the United Nations
No country should deny people their rights because of who they love,
which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere. -President
Barack Obama in a foreign policy
memorandum
I'm not ashamed to be a Christian. But you don't have to be in the pew
every Sunday to know that there's something wrong in this country when gays can
serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or
pray in school. -Texas
Governor and GOP presidential candidate Rick
Perry in his "Strong" campaign commercial
The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are
perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them. -Republican National Committee
Chairman Reince Priebus
"The most violent element in society is
ignorance." -Emma Goldman
"Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed
your hand on the Bible and swore to uphold the Constitution. You did not place
your hand on the Constitution and swear to uphold the Bible." -Jamin Raskin,
getting to the point, in a debate over a proposed constitutional amendment to
the Maryland state constitution to prevent gay couples from having legal
marriage rights.
"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created
me otherwise." -Johann
von Goethe
My sexual orientation is not a sickness
to be healed or a sin to be forgiven. My sexual orientation is a gift from my
Creator to be accepted, celebrated, and lived with integrity. -ChristianGay.Com
"It is never
legitimate to use the words of scripture to promote a loveless
agenda." -Right Rev. Dr. Peter
Short / Moderator of United Church of Canada
"There is nothing in the Bible or in my own
theology that would lead me to believe that God regards homosexuality as sin.
God is interested in our relationships with ourselves, others, the things in
our lives, and with God. There is nothing in the mind of God that could be
against a loving, sexual relationship, freely entered into, without coercion,
among sincere adults whether gay, bisexual or straight."
-Dr.
Slayton / Baptist
"Some argue that since homosexual behavior is
"unnatural," it is contrary to the order of creation. Behind this
pronouncement are stereotypic definitions of masculinity and femininity that
reflect the rigid gender categories of patriarchal society. There is nothing
unnatural about any shared love, even between two of the same gender, if that
experience calls both partners into a fuller state of being. Contemporary
research is uncovering new facts that are producing a rising conviction that
homosexuality, far from being a sickness, sin, perversion or unnatural act, is
a healthy natural, and affirming of human sexuality for some people. Findings
indicate that homosexuality is a given fact in the nature of a significant
portion of people, and that it is unchangeable."
-Bishop
John Shelby Spong / Episcopalian
"When I was in the military,
they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one." -Tombstone of Leonard Matlovich
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