Gay Quotes - Page 22

• I think that we ought to be a tolerant nation. I think we ought to be tolerant people. But we shouldn't set up special categories for anybody. And I'm for the rights of everybody, including gays, but not any special rights.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Rights, People

  "Former Sen. Fred Thompson on 'FOX News Sunday'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 11, 2007.

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• My objection is not that it's pro-gay but that it appears to be anti-marriage.

  Michael Medved

  Pro Gay, Objections

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• If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  Jane Rule

  People, Inspire, Majority

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.247, Open Road Media

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• Having spent 37 years of my life in the military as a reservist, and never having met a gay in all of that time, and never having even talked about it in all those years, I just thought, why the hell shouldn't they serve? They're American citizens. As long as they're not doing things that are harmful to anyone else... So I came out for it.

  Barry Goldwater

  Military, Years, Long

  "Barry Goldwater's Left Turn". Interview with Lloyd Grove, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 1994.

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• The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private lives. Government governs best when it governs least – and stays out of the impossible task of legislating morality. But legislating someone’s version of morality is exactly what we do by perpetuating discrimination against gays.

  Barry Goldwater

  Government, People, Tasks

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• The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power… That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today. Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sexual partners? That's a gay agenda.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Thinking, Abortion

  "Kagan Hearings: The GOP’s Plan of Attack" by Stephanie Mencimer, www.motherjones.com. June 28, 2010.

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• My truth is that I am a gay American.

  James McGreevey

  Truth Is, My Truth

  Resignation Address, delivered 12 August 2004

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• Men don't like me. I haven't been on a date for six months. I've just started a club with a girlfriend called the We Hate Men But We Can't Be Gay Club.

  Lara Stone

  Girlfriend, Hate, Men

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• I am not gay. I never have been gay.

  Larry Craig

  Has Beens

  "Idaho Sen. Larry Craig Resigns Amid Sex Scandal". www.npr.org. September 1, 2007.

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• It's better to like beautiful girls than to be gay.

  Silvio Berlusconi

  Beautiful, Girl, Beautiful Girl

  "Berlusconi's Women". "Dateline", www.sbs.com.au. March 13, 2011.

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• Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.

  Ken Mehlman

  Rights, Support, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• I’m searching for some exit poll data from California. I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Data, California, Black

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• I do know this, though: I’m done pretending that the handful of racist gay white men out there—and they’re out there, and I think they’re scum—are a bigger problem for African Americans, gay and straight, than the huge numbers of homophobic African Americans are for gay Americans, whatever their color…I’ll eat my shorts if gay and lesbian voters went for McCain at anything approaching the rate that black voters went for Prop 8.

  Dan Savage

  Men, Thinking, White

  "2008 Black Homophobia". slog.thestranger.com. November 5, 2008.

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• By in large in this country the issue of gay rights and equality should be past the point of debate. Really, there should be no debate anymore.

  Scott Fujita

  Country, Past, Rights

  "“Why I Support the National Equality March”: NFL’s Scott Fujita Speaks Out for Gay Rights". Interview with Dave Zirin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• The Bible is to gays what Mein Kampf is to Jews.

  Peter Tatchell

  Mein Kampf, Jew

  Peter Tatchell's lecture at St. Botolph's Aldgate in London, March 21, 2000.

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• The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight, male and female - had sex with adults from the ages of nine to 13. None feel they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice and gave them great joy.

  Peter Tatchell

  Sex, Children, Choices

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• Art is harmony. Harmony is the analogy of contrary and of similar elements of tone, of color and of line, conditioned by the dominate key, and under the influence of a particular light, in gay, calm, or sad combinations.

  Georges Seurat

  Art, Keys, Light

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• Gays being gay is wrong. Two women can't produce a baby, two men can't produce a baby, so it's not how it's supposed to be. ... I don't believe in gay marriages. I don't believe in being gay.

  Carl Everett

  Baby, Believe, Men

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• We cannot keep turning our backs on gay and lesbian Americans. I have fought too hard and too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation.

  John E. Lewis

  Race, Color, Long

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• I’m not saying this is an absolute but in a way, if you’re not having kids – who gives a damn? Love who you want. Isn’t that what we say? Gay marriage – love who you want? If it’s your brother or sister it’s super-weird, but if you look at it, you’re not hurting anybody except every single person who freaks out because you’re in love with one another.

  Nick Cassavetes

  Hurt, Brother, Kids

  "At Toronto Film Fest, Nick Cassavetes on Incest: ‘Who Gives a Damn? Love Who You Want’" by Sharon Waxman, www.thewrap.com. September 10, 2012.

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• The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.

  Urvashi Vaid

  Party, Rights, Hair

  At the March on Washington, April 25, 1993.

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• Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bird, Grew, Seems

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.327

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• Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.

  Vaughn Walker

  Sex, Couple, Men

  "Opponents of same-sex marriage to file appeal in California case". www.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

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• The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.

  Horace

  Sorrow, Sorrowful, Dislike

  "Epistles", I. 18. 89, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 733-36, 1922.

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• When in fact we live in a society that makes life hell for gays and lesbians, this community has got to stand up and say, ‘We’re on your side as you struggle for dignity,’ and, ‘Yes, we will defy anybody who says otherwise, even if we have to go to Disneyland to prove it.’

  Tony Campolo

  Struggle, Your Side, Community

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