Homosexuality Quotes

• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Rights
  • Means
  • Satanic

• 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
  • Up
  • Faith
  • Running

• I lived through the Fifties in the Midwest when everything that was happening - the repression of homosexuality, for instance, the demonization of the Left, the giggly, soporific ordinariness of adolescence, the stone-deafness to the social injustice all around us - seemed not only unobjectionable but also nonexistent.

  

  Edmund White
  • Injustice
  • Homosexuality

• Homosexuality is acceptable in the West.

  

  Najib Razak
  • West
  • Homosexuality

• Homosexuality is anti-humanity.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Humanity
  • Homosexuality

• Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

  

  Harry A. Blackmun
  • Live
  • Choose
  • Homosexuality

• The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Stupid
  • Jews
  • Homosexuality

• 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
  • Worked
  • Ministers
  • Closely

• For Christians, the problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ.

  

  William Sloane Coffin
  • Problem
  • Christian
  • Christ

• If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • Homosexuality
  • Immoral

• I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • People
  • Faith
  • Agree

• The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • Homosexuality
  • Proposition
  • Heterosexuality

• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime--and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Illness
  • Cruelty

• Let women figure out why they won't sleep with you. Don't do their work for them.

  

  William Shatner
  • Sleep
  • Figures
  • Sexuality

• It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too...

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Crime
  • Injustice
  • Persecute

• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • People
  • Gay
  • Homosexuality

• Homosexuality is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their subjects, or powerful friendships or passionate love - all of which homosexuality is particularly apt to produce.

  

  Plato
  • Passionate
  • Friendships
  • Shameful

• I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

  

  Anita Bryant
  • Hate
  • Sin
  • Homosexuality

• No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Government
  • Gay
  • Citizens

• If homosexuality was the normal way, God would have made Adam and Bruce

  

  Anita Bryant
  • God
  • Made
  • Homosexuality

• If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Christian
  • Sex

• I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Church
  • Firsts
  • Sadness

• A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Man's
  • Vice versa
  • Heterosexuality

• The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Acknowledged
  • Psychiatry
  • Hermaphroditism

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