“It's my belief that, like every other American, gay and lesbian couples should be able to make a lifetime commitment to the person they love and protect their families.” ShouldPersonsAbleBeliefCoupleGayProtectCommitmentLifetimeLifetime Commitment Author:Mark Udall
“Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.” PeopleShouldMindHelpingTodayLawSocialGroupsGayProtectPaperDiscriminationVulnerableSocial ChangeGay PeopleFramedRacial DiscriminationBarometer Author:Bayard Rustin
“You could protect a religious minority against gays and lesbians. Or you could protect gays and lesbians against a religious minority. And then, it seems to me something political is happening. Because we're not really looking at the kind of speech that is injurious.” KindSeemsPoliticalReligiousGayProtectSpeechHappeningsMinorities Author:Judith Butler
“There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don’t want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldThreeNiceCoupleGayProtectMarriedDivorceProtectionSecondsVery NiceLegal SystemGay Couples Author:Karl Lagerfeld
“Glorification of the 'natural' is part of the ideology which protects an unnatural society in its struggle against liberation.” NaturalStruggleGayProtectIdeologyLiberationUnnaturalGlorification Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
“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?” PeopleIfsMeanChildrenSidesGayProtectFoundationFactorsTruthfulHomosexualityHypothesisAffirming Author:Scott Lively
“When you then establish the law that says you can't discriminate against people who are homosexual, what you're really saying is you're putting the power of law behind the idea that these are people who cannot change and therefore we must protect them from other people who disagree with them.” PeopleIdeasLawBehindsGayProtectDisagreeHomosexual Author:Scott Lively