Homosexuality Quotes - Page 13

• The law in Russia bans "propaganda of homosexuality," which is defined as dissemination of information that can cause harm to the spiritual or physical development of children, including forming in them the erroneous impression of the social equality of traditional and nontraditional sexual relations. It's a law that actually enshrines second-class citizenship - it makes it a crime to claim social equality.

  Masha Gessen

  Spiritual, Children, Citizenship

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• We shall therefore compare the concept of homosexuality as heresy, prevalent in the days of the witch-hunts, with the concept of homosexuality as mental illness, prevalent today.

  Thomas Szasz

  Today, Witch, Mental Illness

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.160, Syracuse University Press

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• My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations around the world. I know that it's different from the secular culture in the western world, but it's no different from the teaching of the church globally. We're Christians basically.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Christian, Teaching, Issues

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South. It was awful there, but pretty bad here. Environmental issues did not exist. Opposition to aggression was virtually zero. In fact, so little, that to this day, even scholarship mentions the Vietnam War as beginning in 1965.

  Noam Chomsky

  Zero, War, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Over past years we have seen unrelenting pressure from advocates of homosexuality to accept as normal what is not normal, and to characterize those who disagree as narrow-minded, bigoted and unreasonable. Such advocates are quick to demand freedom of speech and thought for themselves, but equally quick to criticize those with a different view and, if possible, to silence them by applying labels like "homophobic."

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Past, Views, Years

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• I believe that the fact and the reality of homosexuality and heterosexuality and of opposite and same-gender unions should be taught in our public schools without a value judgement system also being offered.

  Ed Case

  Believe, School, Reality

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• Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in America if people decide to write something against homosexuality on the basis of psychological and sociological principles, they will be prevented from publishing their work. How is it that these people feel obligated to respect freedom of expression?

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Writing, Expression

  Speech at Imam Khomeini Naval Academy in Noshahr, english.khamenei.ir. September 17, 2012.

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• I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics.

  Armistead Maupin

  Gay, Thinking, Wings

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• Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

  Bayard Rustin

  Kings, Numbers, Luther

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very unusual for someone from Latin American society to openly stand by his homosexuality. In my hometown, there are still lots of prejudices against gays. We are often not considered to be fully-fledged people. The family is sacred there; having children means more than anything else.

  Orlando Cruz

  Children, Latin, Mean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In English-speaking countries, the connection between heresy and homosexuality is expressed through the use of a single word to denote both concepts: buggery. ... Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (Third Edition) defines "buggery" as "heresy, sodomy.

  Thomas Szasz

  Country, Connections, Use

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.165, Syracuse University Press

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• I became one of the stately homos of England.

  Quentin Crisp

  England

  The Naked Civil Servant ch. 24 (1968) See Hemans 3; Woolf 4

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• Paris had more sex than most church-laden places, and more church than most sex-laden places. Parisians crowed about Travail-Famille-Patrie while frequenting brothels. They enjoyed visiting drag shows while clamping down on homosexuality. They celebrated romance while treating women like dirt. Many of these contradictions existed elsewhere, but I do think Paris ruled the hypocrisy championships.

  Luc Sante

  Thinking, Hypocrisy, Romance

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The public examination of homosexuality in our contemporary life is still so coated with distasteful moral connotations that even a reviewer is bound to wonder uneasily why he was selected to evaluate a book on the subject, and to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Children, Father, Team

  "Saturday Review" Magazine, April 22, 1961.

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• The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Unhappy, Majority, Males

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.85, Vintage

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• I have AIDS. I am surprised that I do. I have not been exposed since1977, which is to say that my experience, myadventures in homosexuality took place largely in the1960s and '70s, and back then I relied on time and abstinence to indicate my degree of freedom from infectionand to protect others and myself.

  Harold Brodkey

  Degrees, Abstinence, Aids

  1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

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• Fifty three per cent children in India face sexual abuse - both boys and girls - but we still feel uncomfortable talking about it. We are still hypocrites when it comes to issues like child abuse, sex or for that matter homosexuality. It is high time that we brought the issue from under the carpet.

  Rahul Bose

  Girl, Sex, Children

  "Rahul Bose: We are all hypocrites". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. September 26, 2009.

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• There is an alarming increase of violence and harassment against gay people, something that is being legitimized by the regime as they brand homosexuality as something abnormal and dangerous to children.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  Children, Gay, People

  "Situation in Russia". Personal blog at the European Commission website, ec.europa.eu. January 17, 2014.

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• The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.

  Thomas Szasz

  Suicide, Addiction, Drug

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (1997). “The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement”, p.168, Syracuse University Press

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• There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

  Rupert Everett

  Bias, Deals, Stills

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• Our emancipation means standing up for strong families, our emancipation means standing against the homosexuality agenda, emancipation for us means standing up against the repealing of the buggery law.

  Alvin Bailey

  Strong, Mean, Law

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• As important as the father is in the life of a child, even he must take second place to mother during the first three years of life.... Consequently, mothers actually have more to do with producing a predisposition toward homosexuality than fathers. Two kinds of mothers are particularly harmful - smother mothers and dominating mothers.

  Tim LaHaye

  Mother, Children, Father

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• This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

  John Green

  Clubs, Abomination

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.29, Penguin

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• Anyone who feels that homosexuality is not only a sin but also a disease or a mental issue should take a look in the mirror and realize who the real crazy person is.

  Corey Taylor

  Crazy, Real, Mirrors

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.61, Da Capo Press

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• A major contributor to the present-day tendency to accept and encourage homosexuality is Dr. Sigmund Freud.

  Tim LaHaye

  Scary, Drs, Accepting

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

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