gay-marriage

You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage. It's that simple.Everywhere, the voice of the oppressed must echo + ring out or else it will be crushed by the tyranny of wickedness.

Virtually every church tradition, by theology, interpretive strategies, or pastoral practice, makes accommodations for divorced people who seek to remarry. These accommodations permit divorced people to enter unions that are outside the rule laid down in the Bible. But we can't have it both ways. We can't apply a strict "biblical marriage" rule to gay people and not apply it to those who are divorced and remarried.

You cannot sodomize a Sacrament and expect God to say, 'Well done.

The definition of irony - A Pope who refuses to give law enforcement the names of hundreds (or maybe thousands) of predatory homosexual pedophile priests around the world, then claiming that gay marriage will be the world's undoing. (Speaking of Benedict the XVI.)

We, gays, can get married in Canada. We let heterosexuals too, but that was a huge thing, we had to have a referendum and a vote, it__ crazy! But then we were like, if they want to get married.. that__ cool. That__ gonna destroy their relationships, but.. Heterosexuals deserve the same rights as homosexuals.

No matter whether you__e a gay or a mixed race couple; when you__e drawn together, ultimately it doesn__ matter what everybody thinks because it__ so honest, true, and sincere. How can that be wrong?

Me being in love with a girl and wanting her to be with me, doing what I need to do to make her stay with me; it affects no one, yet it__ terrifying to people and they think you__e a monster.

The only opinion I have is that I could never look someone in the eye and tell them that they didn__ love someone that they know they love. It__ not my job to judge and it__ not a job I__ want. I love people a lot. All kinds. If we were meant to be the same then we wouldn__ be human.

He takes the beer and sets it on the floor. "I've never been into guys. So, this attraction to you is a little weird for me." I try to ease his mind by telling him that a lot of straight guys have at least one homosexual experience in their lifetime and that it's pretty normal."Yeah_ that's what I hear.""So don't over-think it. Just do me." He laughs, runs his hand down my arms, over my chest, and follows my happy trail down to my pubes.

As an artist in the 1960s, Norman Sunshine was able to maintain a moderately out lifestyle. But when the first exhibition of his paintings in New York brought on a profile in The New York Times in 1968, he was photographed in the apartment that he admitted sharing with Shayne. At both his advertising agency and Shayne__ television production company, the article was met with absolute silence.

About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending._ - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life

In the 1970s, when Norman Sunshine won an Emmy for the graphics and title design he had created for one of Alan Shayne__ television productions, __lan and I agreed it was not a good idea for us to be seen together at an industry event,_ he remembers. __lan, after all, was one of the very few homosexuals who had such a powerful, high profile job, and who lived openly with a man. Homophobia had its adherents and some ruthless climber up the executive ladder would certainly love an opportunity to use it_ 'Better to be seen with a woman,_ we were advised by a very trusted friend, __akes everyone more comfortable.

gay marriage... always being an issue for the voting public when it should be an individual__ private choice.

Government should not be involved in marriage at all, I believe. There__ no reason for it. I don__ get the value of my marriage government, I get it from God. I want the government out of my life. If you want to find a church that marries a gay couple, that__ totally fine. My church does not do that and it will fundamentally change what i believe is the eternal family, the basic building block. And I have a right to believe that, and I have a right to go to a church that believes that and we have a right to practice. As long as I__ not trying to force you to do anything.

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.