“Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"”
Jon Stewart
“I am not homophobic. I have no problem sitting next to a gay couple. They need to be loved as much as everyone else, and I am not ashamed to say that I love gay people.”
A.J. Chilson
“There are still some people out there who think that the gay community is a magical world, a masculine world, full of love, and kindness, and friendship. And it could still be...if only en masse they didn't keep chasing people with rusty axes who dare threaten to shatter their illusions.”
John Lewington
“There is nothing wrong with going to bed with someone of your own sex. People should be very free with sex, they should draw the line at goats.”
Elton John
“Society is strongest when it upholds the basic civil rights of all its citizens, including the right to marry the person you love.”
Mark Leno
“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
“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
