#homosexual

Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#came #caught #changed #could #crime

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#does #fullness #homosexuals #hopes #i

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#choice #expresses #fact #forces #homosexuality

For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#admitted #am #confusion #ever #every

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#disorder #evil #homosexual #inclination #intrinsic

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#correct #create #does #find #form

I believe in civil liberties for homosexuals. I guess I'd have to say I'd draw the line at letting them teach in the schools. ↗

— Jack Kemp

#civil #civil liberties #draw #guess #homosexuals

I have nothing, absolutely nothing against anyone who's homosexual. If that's their orientation, then I accept that. And I have no problem with someone who has other orientations. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#absolutely nothing #accept #against #anyone #homosexual

If what you want is a life where your homosexuality is not an issue, move, as many have done. ↗

— Dan Savage

#homosexuality #issue #life #many #move