“A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.” PeopleShouldTryingLooksLittlesPersonsHomeYoungReligiousIssuesDyingGayLosingVotePrejudiceRegardMajorityThreatFolksCurrentsLocksPollsTerrificGay MarriageGay PeopleConstituentsAmbulancePull UpsFolks Home Author:Dan Savage
“I think these last 10 years have seen just a huge shift in the psyche of this country as regards gay people. I think AIDS had a lot to do with it. So many families who really believed they'd 'never met one' were suddenly confronted with their sons becoming ill, and friends of sons. I think that brought a lot of it into the open.” PeopleThinkingYearsCountryLastsSonHugeBecomingMetsGayRegardIllAidsGay People Author:Janis Ian
“We shouldn't just allow gay marriage. We should insist on gay marriage. We should regard it as scandalous that two people could claim to love each other and not want to sanctify their love with marriage and fidelity.” PeopleWantShouldTwoGayClaimsRegardLgbtGay MarriageFidelityLove Each OtherSanctifyScandalous Author:David Brooks
“This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be crystal clear yourself. But there are problems here, and in this regard I unfortunately have a suspicion that this is just a way of getting votes and not a genuine desire to solve the problem.” WayProblemDesireOrderFightingTakenClearGayVoteRegardCorruptionSolveGenuineGentlemanThemeSuspicionSyriaCrystalsFashionableGay Rights Author:Vladimir Putin
“Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.” PeopleYearsHumansStatesCharacterBlackUnitedUnited StatesFiveRightsJudgingGayYears AgoTwentiesRegardHuman RightsBlack PeopleHomosexualTwenty FiveBarometer Author:Bayard Rustin
“But fairness is where we’re heading, at least in regard to marriage, which has emerged as the terrain on which Americans are hashing out their feelings about gays and lesbians. The trajectory is undeniable. The trend line is clear. And the choice before the justices is whether to be handmaidens to history, or whether to sit it out.” FeelingsChoicesLinesJusticeClearGayRegardTrendsFairnessHeadingsTrajectoryTerrain Author:Frank Bruni