“Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims”
Morris Cohen
“I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution”
William Butler Yeats
“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.”
Wallace Stevens
“Jackie Biskupski is running for a seat in the Utah Legislature, and she's attracting a lot of attention because she's a lesbian. Her Republican opponent, Dan Alderson, is a staunch Mormon, and is running a negative ad campaign calling her lifestyle abnormal and deviant … His six wives agree.”
Rick Mercer
“I think that we have in recent years entered a 'New Dark Age' in the Western world. It is marked by the rise of religious systems that seek to build security by encouraging prejudice against a designated victim ... the homosexual. It has become the religious hysteria of our day.”
John Shelby Spong
“Straight Americans need ... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand, to begin with, how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.”
Bruce Bawer
