Homosexuality Quotes - Page 10

• It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

  Michael Musto

  Wish, Lasts, Good Things

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• My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

  Quentin Crisp

  Grief, Essence, Guilt

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• It's important to stress what I didn't find. I did not prove that homosexuality is genetic, or find a genetic cause for being gay. I didn't show that gay men are born that way, the most common mistake people make in interpreting my work. Nor did I locate a gay center in the brain.

  Simon LeVay

  Mistake, Stress, Gay

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• Every religion I know of has changed its views with respect to concrete controversies over long periods of time. People's views about the morality of homosexuality are likely to undergo some change, even though they're making judgments based on their religious beliefs. Because in fact, religion is an extremely durable, and yet flexible, way of trying to apprehend what's good and what's bad in the world. In fact, its durability comes from its flexibility. Now, speaking from inside a religion, it's hard to talk that way.

  Jack Balkin

  Religious, Views, Long

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• Chris Smith is openly gay and I think Peter Mandelson is certainly gay.

  John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair

  Gay, Thinking, Peter

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• One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Taken, People

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• The first idea of Young and Beautiful was to have a young boy and to explore the sexuality of boys. But, I realized, with a boy doing prostitution, of course it has to deal with homosexuality. And I had a feeling it was too much for the film, you know, sexuality, prostitution, adolescence ... there were too many films for one film.

  Francois Ozon

  Beautiful, Boys, Feelings

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The performance of buggery is no more inevitable a part of homosexuality than an orange syllabub is an inevitable part of a dinner: some may clamour for it and instantly demand a second helping, some are not interested, some decide they will try it once and then instantly vomit.

  Stephen Fry

  Orange, Trying, Demand

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press

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• It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce.

  John Hagee

  Christian, Mean, Acceptance

  "What Every Man Wants In A Woman / What Every Woman Wants In A Man". Book by John Hagee and Diana Hagee, 2005.

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• If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.

  Andrew Solomon

  Running, Gay, Church

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• The more I follow grace, the more I'm drawn to him (God), the more I'm willing to stand up for people being persecuted. .. This sounds so churchy, but I felt like God spoke to my heart and said '(homosexuality) is not a sin'.

  Jay Bakker

  Heart, People, Grace

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• We have the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church talking about how gay marriage is a sign of the apocalypse, or Russian TV talking about how meteorites are coming to punish Russians for homosexuality.

  Masha Gessen

  Gay, Church, Apocalypse

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• But I don't have anything to prove. My reputation is what it is. It seems that a lot of gay men are put off by jazz because either they don't believe it speaks to their own experience or they believe the genre itself to be somehow intolerant of homosexuality.

  Fred Hersch

  Believe, Gay, Men

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• As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.

  Adam Hamilton

  Christian, Biblical, Taught

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• What is behind homosexual marriage. It's really more about the destruction of the traditional family than about exalting homosexuality, because you need to destroy also loyalty to the family.

  Rafael Cruz

  Loyalty, Homosexual Marriage, Needs

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I will say what I want to say. I had some homosexual experiences as a young person.

  Michael Portillo

  Want, Young, Persons

  "I'll say what I want to say". Interview with Ginny Dougeray, www.theguardian.com. September 09, 1999.

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• Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

  Amber Rose

  Found, Species, Unnatural

  Twitter post from May 6, 2012

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• In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!

  Tim LaHaye

  Mother, Sex, Scary

  Tim F. LaHaye (1978). “The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality”

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• I fear that within 10 years gays, trade union activists and left wing politicians will be led off to the gas chambers.

  Ken Livingstone

  Gay, Years, Wings

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• A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

  Don Feder

  Numbers, Giving, Healthy

  Don Feder (1993). “A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America”, Vital Issues Pr

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• While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.

  Henry Rollins

  Father, Believe, Civilization

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• Sometimes there is a great intimacy between women without any homosexuality. This is something that men are less likely to understand, because for them sensuality means sexual. It doesn't excite us to imagine two men together.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mean, Men, Two

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• Homosexuality is an ugly sin, repugnant to those who find no temptation in it, as well as to many past offenders who are seeking a way out of its clutches. All such deviations from normal, proper heterosexual relationships are not merely unnatural but wrong in the sight of God.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Past, Sight, Temptation

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• Saying "I'm Christian and gay" proves nothing. The question shouldn't be Can a person be homosexual and still belong to God? But rather, Is homosexuality right or wrong according to the Bible.

  Joe Dallas

  Christian, Gay, Prove

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• Whereas your blackness, ethnicity, homosexuality is something that might be genetic, I can't touch that, and I have no right.

  George Carlin

  Ethnicity, Might, Blackness

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