“Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.” HumansReasonAgeSexCommunityRaceMoralRacismSpeciesDenyProtectionRejectsSexismOrientationMembershipSentient BeingsAgeismSpeciesism Author:Gary L. Francione
“I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex.” PeopleSexCommunitySawsMembersOppositesRamaCelibacy Author:Frederick Lenz
“sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.” PeopleKnowsWellsSexCommunityLosesMistakeInformationCoupleGayMarriedConnectionsPainfulSexualityPrimariesOur SocietyGoodsUnitsWorldlyGay People Author:Rita Mae Brown
“Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.” WayLoveLifeInspirationalMotivationalFunnyRomanceSexCommunityMoralCourageSarcasticSense Of HumorAdoption Author:Isaac Asimov
“the way in which a faith community shapes language about God implicity represents what it takes to be the highest good, the profoundest truth, the most appealing beauty. ... While officially it is rightly and consistently said that God is spirit and so beyond identification with either male or female sex, yet the daily language of preaching, worship, catechesis, and instruction conveys a different message: God is male, or at least more like a man than a woman, or at least more fittingly addressed as male than as female.” MenWaySaidDifferentGodSpiritLanguageSexCommunityShapesWorshipMessagesHighestFemaleMalesInstructionConsistentlyPreachingIdentificationFaith Community Author:Elizabeth A. Johnson
“It's the one thing we can all relate to no matter what religion, what color, what nationality: we can all relate to sex and love.” MatterReligionSexCommunityFamilyOne ThingHuman NatureColorAnd LoveNo Matter WhatUnityIdeologyRelateNationalitySex And Love Author:Enrique Iglesias
“If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.” IfsLoveWellsSexCommunityLandCoupleEqualDignityCommitOfferingRulingOur Community Author:Barack Obama
“People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.” PeopleKnowsMadeStoriesGuySexCommunityWhiteMorningPrisonClockEvery MorningMurdererInventingToastsHorrificOffendersCommunity ServiceWhite GuysSex OffendersArsonistsInventing Stories Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“o the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another…as you love yourself, love thy neighbor.'” IfsSaidSexCommunityLove YouExpressionSelf LoveGayMy FavoriteNeighborLove YourselfApologizingLove One AnotherCondemningLove Thy NeighborI ApologizeGay Community Author:Manny Pacquiao