“Scouts should be progressive and should be adapting. If you're gay or not it's irrelevant, Scouting values respect.” IfsShouldValuesGayProgressiveIrrelevantAdaptingScouting Author:Bear Grylls
“Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.” ThinkingYoungValuesBlackWhitePoorRichRightsGayRedAgreeConservativeCivil RightsYellowBlack WhiteAmerican ValuesRich PoorConservative Values Author:Jerry Falwell
“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.” KindCertainValuesOrderChoicesCasesViolenceSubjectsMovementExpressionProductsGayCapitalismGenderSexualityLifestyleTendenciesConventionsConventionalUniformsCommodityHostilityParadigmFetishDisapprovalCapitulationLifestyle ChoicesGender And Sexuality Author:Bruce LaBruce
“There can be people who feel one way about gay rights, another way about gay rights. There can be people who have different views on abortion. But we respect each other. I think we learn from each other. And we understand that ultimately we have the same values.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsDifferentValuesViewsRightsGayOne WayAbortionAnother WayGay RightsDifferent ViewsRespect Each Other Author:Rudy Giuliani
“Mormon leaders said in a statement they will reexamine their ties to the Boy Scouts. "The church," they said, "has always welcomed all boys to its Scouting units regardless of sexual orientation. However, the admission of openly gay leaders is inconsistent with the doctrines of the church and what have traditionally been the values of the Boy Scouts of America."” SaidAmericaValuesChurchLeaderBoysGayStatementsDoctrineTiesUnitsThey SaidOrientationInconsistentAdmissionScoutingBoy ScoutBoy Scouts Of America Author:Gwen Ifill
“Cardinal Dolan, of course, has a very, very hard job: trying to hold up Catholic family values in sexually liberal New York City. I'm not saying New York is the Gay Mecca. But it's at least Gay-rusalem.” TryingHardJobsReligionValuesCoursesCommunityLeadershipWorkCitiesFamilyComedyHuman NaturePolicyNew YorkGayEthicsCatholicStrategyNew York CitySexuallyCardinalsFamily ValuesMeccaCatholic Family Author:Stephen Colbert
“I got the bad press and the blogging and the email threats because people really didn't understand. They thought I was anti-gay. That's not true at all. My spiritual mom has a gay son. Even he was telling his friends "No, that's not true. She's so accepting of me." That doesn't mean I accept his lifestyle. It means I accept him as a human person and as a creation of God and a person of value.” PeopleHumansMeanPersonsSpiritualValuesAcceptingCreationSonMomGayPressesThreatLifestyleEmailBloggingAnti GayBad PressGay Son Author:Patricia Mauceri
“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
“I'm a progressive. What I find is that a subsection within the left that instead of standing for consistency in progressive values, so feminism as applied to mainstream society, as well as within minority communities, gay rights to mainstream society as well as within minority communities.” WellsValuesLeftCommunityRightsFeminismGayStandingMinoritiesProgressiveMainstreamConsistencyGay RightsMainstream Society Author:Maajid Nawaz
“We value men more than women... straight love more than gay love... white skin more than black skin... and adults more than adolescents.” MenValuesBlackWhiteGayAdultsSkinsBlack SkinWhite SkinGay Love Author:Charlize Theron
“I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldBelievePersonsStillsWarEndsCountryHomeWantedSchoolDesireValuesForceI BelieveSupportForeverGayBenefitsMarriedShould HaveSoldierDearPartnersOur CountryLiberationDistinctionServingPatriarchyBack HomeOld SchoolBisexualArmed ForcesPersonal DesireGay Liberation Author:Cleve Jones
“Being respectful of extraordinary work that has happened in the last thirty-five years is not the same thing as it reflecting my values. I'm not sorry that gays can now enter the military and I'm not sorry that we can marry, but frankly I come from a moment in time, a radical vision in time that never made marriage or the military my criteria of success.” YearsMadeMomentsLastsValuesVisionFiveHappenedMilitaryGayExtraordinarySorryRadicalThirtyFive YearsCriteriaReflectingRespectfulMoments In TimeBe RespectfulNot Sorry Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“Maybe when the President tells you that you should be afraid of Mexicans or Muslims or Jews or black people or gay people or trans people, you'll realize that those are just labels, that underneath it all we're all the same people, we all have the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same desires, that we all share the same values.” PeopleShouldDesireValuesBlackPresidentRealizingShareGayJewLabelsAspirationBlack PeopleTransGay People Author:Reza Aslan
“LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent in Russia. There's no doubt in anyone's mind that the values that affirm nontraditional relationships, that affirm feminism, come from abroad. If you've established - and this isn't up for discussion - that foreign agents are bad, and foreign influence is bad, and the West is our enemy, then there's no better expression of the West's influence than gays and lesbians.” PeopleMindValuesEnemyDoubtFeminismInfluenceGayUltimateDiscussionLgbt Author:Masha Gessen
“My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.” MatterValuesBlackGaySpringActivismRootedGrandparentUpbringingBeing GayQuaker Author:Bayard Rustin
“Forty-two years after Dr. King was murdered, we are still a nation of inequality. People of color, women, gays, lesbians, and others are still treated as second-class citizens. Yes, things have changed but we have still not achieved equality among all humans. And nonhuman animals continue to be chattel property without any inherent value.” PeopleYearsHumansStillsTwoValuesNationsAnimalClassChangedColorKingsCitizensGayPropertyTreatedInequalityFortyTwo YearsInherentWomens RightsDrsThings Have ChangedSecond Class Citizens Author:Gary L. Francione
“If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'” IfsRealValuesCoursesGayGolfDrivenLos AngelesEstatesSectionsGolf Course Author:Adam Carolla
“More non-fringe, non-radical homosexuals emerge into public view every day. As the stereotype of the homosexual as antisocial deviant crumbles, a (political) party or faction that tolerates gay-baiting rhetoric in the name of 'family values' makes 'family values' look more and more like common bigotry.” LooksPoliticalValuesNamesJusticeViewsPartyCommonGayDiversitySocial JusticeRadicalBigotryTolerateRhetoricStereotypeHomosexualPolitical PartiesFringeFactionsFamily ValuesAntisocialDeviants Author:Jonathan Rauch
“I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally.” FeelsGovernmentValuesYouthGayMessagesDeserveFairsPrejudiceDenialHopefulGay MarriageHopeful Future Author:Lady Gaga
“This is a proud day and an important step forward in the fight for equality in Britain. The overwhelming majority of Labour MPs supported this change to make sure marriage reflects the value we place on long-term, loving relationships whoever you love.” LongImportantValuesFightingTermStepsProudGayMajorityLong TermBritainLabourOverwhelmingGay MarriageSteps ForwardMpsLoving Relationships Author:Ed Miliband
“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
“The gay movement doesn't care about what you think...they're focused on the young ones because if you can put the ideas into their minds it's just a matter of time before you die off and they take your place and their value system will then allow all the rules to be changed.” IfsThinkingMindIdeasMatterCareYoungValuesDiesMovementChangedGayFocusedValue SystemsMatter Of TimeYoung Ones Author:Scott Lively