“In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After all, if traditional marriage is defined as the union of (1) two people of (2) opposite gender, and if, as advocates of gay marriage insist, the gender requirement is nothing but prejudice, exclusion and an arbitrary denial of one's autonomous choices in love, then the first requirement - the number restriction (two and only two) - is a similarly arbitrary, discriminatory and indefensible denial of individual choice.” PeopleIfsYearsFirstsTwoChoicesIndividualNumbersRightsGayYears AgoOppositesPrejudiceUnionsGenderTraditionalDefinedDenialLogicalRequirementsEssaysArbitraryGay MarriageRestrictionGay RightsExclusionPolygamyAutonomousTraditional MarriageIndividual Choice Author:Charles Krauthammer
“Once I appealed to distinguish words "gay" and "homosexual"... "Gayship" is a political homosexualism, a sort of left-wing ideology based on a bias against traditional lifestyle... Homosexualism is a sexual preference.” PoliticalLeftGayWingsLifestyleTraditionalIdeologyBiasHomosexualPreferenceLeft Wing Author:Rafal A. Ziemkiewicz
“if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.” PeopleIfsLongLightSeemsHouseReligiousTreeEffectsGayDareStrangerChristmasTraditionalStringsGesturesOrientationColorfulSentimentalityChristmas TreeFlamboyant Book:The Vegetarian Epicure Source: The Vegetarian Epicure
“The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny.” ThinkingMenWayMeanUseValuesHateBlackGayTraditionalSavingPhrasesImmigrantsBullshitMisogynyNobilityUnbornPro LifeSlamDressed UpGay MenHispanicFamily ValuesFetusTraditional Family Author:Janeane Garofalo
“Bush proposed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. Some saw the move as an attempt to preserve traditional values, while others saw it as a cynical ploy to ensure that Vice President... Cheney will never have to pay for his gay daughter's wedding.” MovingValuesPresidentPaySawsGayDaughterVicesTraditionalPreservesCynicalAmendmentsGay MarriageBansVice PresidentTraditional ValuesConstitutional AmendmentsPloy Author:Jon Stewart
“In autumn 2012 I conducted a dedication and blessing service following the Civil Partnership of two wonderful gay Christians. Why? Not to challenge the traditional understanding of marriage - far from it - but to extend to these people what I would do to others: the love and support of our local church.” PeopleTwoChristianUnderstandingChallengesChurchSupportWonderfulGayBlessingFollowingLocalsTraditionalAutumnWhy NotDedicationPartnershipLocal Church Author:Steve Chalke
“I think maybe it's more important to know the traditional concepts we have for thinking about how bodies are feminine or masculine or how sexuality is, straight or gay. These categories very often fail to describe the complexity of who we are.” ThinkingKnowsImportantBodyFailingGayConceptsSexualityTraditionalComplexityWho We AreFeminineCategoriesMasculine Author:Judith Butler
“The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life.” HateDoubtGroupsBecomingGaySpeechSpeedTraditionalNo DoubtGay MarriageSpinningAmerican LifeHate SpeechAnti Gay Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.” PeopleBelieveChildrenDreamReligiousLeaderWatchesPoliticianGayVideoTraditionalConcertsIdolsLawnsGay PeopleDemiseHopes And DreamsCounterpartsAmerican IdolReligious LeadersTraditional Family Author:Jodi Picoult
“Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.” WishMarriageGayPrejudiceMajorityDefinitionsLike MeTraditionalPreservesIntoleranceBias Author:Mitt Romney
“It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.” KindHas BeensStuffGayTraditionalNarcissismConvenientRobinsRoaringGroomingHeterosexualityUncomplicatedPersonal GroomingHeterosexuality Is Author:Russell Brand
“Legalizing gay marriage is not about making it possible for gay people to become couples. It's about giving the Left the power to force anti-religious values on our children. Once they legalize gay marriage, it will be the bludgeon they use to make sure that it becomes illegal to teach traditional values in the schools.” PeopleGivingChildrenUseSchoolValuesLeftForceReligiousTeachCoupleGayOur ChildrenTraditionalIllegalGay MarriageHomophobiaGay PeopleAnti ReligiousTraditional ValuesReligious Values Author:Orson Scott Card