Homosexuality Quotes - Page 6

• I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Coal Miners, Perfect

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• When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Association took homosexuality off the list of mental illnesses - and in many states, including the state of North Carolina where I grew up, homosexuality was a crime. An arrestable crime. It still is, in many parts of the world.

  Armistead Maupin

  Writing, Years, Cities

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• Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Comeback, Insult, Sexuality

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek), 1721.

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• Cruelty is, in theory, a perfectly adequate ground for divorce, but it may be interpreted so as to become absurd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Divorce, Adequate, May

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.146, Routledge

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• Jerry Falwell says that abortion and homosexuality are sins. Oh yeah? Well, so is gluttony, Jerry. So maybe you should think about dropping 50 pounds.

  Dennis Miller

  Thinking, Abortion, Pounds

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• Giving men marriage tips is a little like offering Vikings a free booklet titled How Not to Pillage.

  Robert Wright

  Men, Offering, Giving

  Robert Wright (2010). “The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology”, p.183, Vintage

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• The Bible identifies 15 crimes against the family worthy of the death penalty. Abortion is treason against the family and deserves the death penalty. Adultery is treason to the family; adulterers should be put to death. Homosexuality is treason to the family, and it too, is worthy of death.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Abortion, Religion, Atheism

  "Moyers: God and Politics", TV series (1987– ). ""On Earth as It Is in Heaven, 1988.

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• As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children.

  Anita Bryant

  Mother, Children, Gay

  "HBO to Develop a Biopic About Anti-Gay Activist Anita Bryant" by Michael Sullivan, collider.com. February 02, 2010.

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• One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

  Alan Chambers

  Using People, Gay, Evil

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• If someone as deluded as I was can be brought out of homosexuality then surely anyone can.

  Joe Dallas

  Gay, Deluded, Ifs

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• Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

  Pat Buchanan

  Block, Decay, Republic

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• This is a word that is not a scientific term. This is a rhetorical tool of psychological manipulation... Because everyone knows if you dare to say homosexuality is wrong...you are a homophobe, which means you have a mental illness. That's what's built into this terminology.

  Scott Lively

  Mean, Gay, Tools

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• Most of the people...they say gays are born that way and it has been...proven...That is a lie. That's what's called a lie. It is not true. There is no definitive scientific study that has ever proved that homosexuality is innate

  Scott Lively

  Lying, Gay, People

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• If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired, shouldn't we be doing everything in our power to protect people from acquiring it? Shouldn't we lean to the side of protecting the children instead of affirming a scientific hypothesis that has no actual truthful foundation?

  Scott Lively

  Children, Mean, Gay

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• Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the men...male homosexuality has historically been not adult to adult it has been adult to teenager

  Scott Lively

  Teenager, Gay, Men

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• People are so intimidated by the gay movement that nobody will say why...they won't say why they don't want gay marriage...they don't dare to say because homosexuality is wrong, it's harmful for society, it's abnormal, it's unnatural, the people who are doing it can overcome it and should overcome it

  Scott Lively

  Gay, People, Overcoming

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• I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.

  Nikolay Alexeyev

  Gay, Community, Quality

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• Our children will be forced to learn that homosexuality is normal and natural and that perhaps they should try it, and that'll be very soon in our public schools all across the state, beginning in kindergarten.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, School, Trying

  "Prophetic Views Behind The News" hosted by Jan Markell, KKMS 980-AM, March 6, 2004.

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• If homosexuality were normal, God would have created Adam and Bruce.

  Anita Bryant

  Normal, Adam, Ifs

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• Faggot isn't offensive to gays; it's got nothing to do with gays.

  Ann Coulter

  Gay, Offensive

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• I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.

  Kurt Cobain

  Gay, Wish, Homophobes

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

  Alfred Kinsey

  Heterosexuality Is, Individual, Propositions

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• The person who really needs the psychotherapy (...) is not the homosexual youngster who gets dragged to the psychiatrist's office by his mother, but the mother, to releive her anxieties about his homosexuality.

  Frank Kameny

  Mother, Gay, Office

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• My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.

  Ken Cuccinelli

  Country, Thinking, Views

  "Steve Shannon for attorney general", pilotonline.com. October 26, 2009.

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• There is object proof that homosexuality is more interesting than heterosexuality. It's that one knows a considerable number of heterosexuals who would wish to become homosexuals, whereas one knows very few homosexuals who would really like to become heterosexuals.

  Michel Foucault

  Heterosexuality Is, Numbers, Interesting

  "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, November 23, 2000.

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