#orientation

I feel very deeply about the need to respect and tolerate people of different social - or sexual orientation. But at the same time, I believe marriage should be preserved as an institution for one man and one woman. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#believe #deeply #different #feel #i

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

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#based #believe #freedom #human #human rights

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#change #disorientation #change

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#lesbianism #lesbians #orientation #psychoanalysis #psychology

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one. ↗

— Robert Brady

#ago #based #combat #controversial #discrimination

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#created #everywhere #god #grace #orientation

I think naturally my orientation is from my father. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#i #i think #naturally #orientation #think

I am a rare species, not a stereotype. ↗

— Ivan E. Coyote

#gay #gender-bending #gender-spectrum #labels #lesbian

Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#contributed #convincing #disappointment #fact #language