words of wisdom

Today's Words of Wisdom is not a collection of quotable snippets from any one person. Rather, I've thrown together a few quotes on the same topic: homosexuality. Perhaps I'm in a peculiarly rainbow-flag-waving mood today. Who knows? At any rate here is some food for thought (Incidentally, not all of these words are wise. I thought I'd throw in some to illustrate the stpuidity and offensiveness of homophobia as well. Oh, and apologies to my gay lady friends, but many of these are specifically about male homosexuality. There are just more good quotes about us guys!)...

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As everyone knows, a fag is a homosexual gentleman who has just left the room.
~ Truman Capote

Anyone who thinks that love needs to be cured has not experienced enough of it in their own lives.
~ Joan Garry

Homosexuality is a crime against humanity ... Causes of homosexuality include: 'sex with animals'
~ Paul Cameron

Wherever it has been established that it is shameful to be involved with sexual relationships with men, that is due to evil on the part of the rulers, and to cowardice on the part of the governed.
~ Plato

Gays are not oppressed on a whim, but because of the specific need of capitalism for the nuclear family. The nuclear family ... fulfills an important need for capitalism. Alternative sexualities represent a threat to the family model because they provide an alternative role model for people. Gays are going to be in the front line of attack whenever capitalism wants to reinforce family values.
~ Louise Tierney, "Looking to the Future"

Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.
~ Jesse Helms (Sen. R-NC)

In high school, while your children were doing what kids that age should be doing, mine labored over a suicide note, drafting and redrafting it to be sure his family knew how much he loved them. My sobbing 17-year-old tore the heart out of me as he choked out that he just couldn't bear to continue living any longer, that he didn't want to be gay and that he couldn't face a life without dignity. You have the audacity to talk about protecting families and children from the homosexual menace, while you yourselves tear apart families and drive children to despair. I don't know why my son is gay, but I do know that God didn't put him, and millions like him, on this Earth to give you someone to abuse.
~ Sharon Underwood

If you remove all the homosexuals and homosexual influences from what is generally regarded as American culture, you are pretty much left with Let's Make a Deal.
~ Fran Lebowitz

AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharoah's charioteers.
~ Jerry Falwell

Concerning the Pope's claim that homosexuality is 'unnatural'. Perhaps the Pope is suggesting that it lies beyond the scope of 'normal' human behavior. If so, this has uncomfortable implications for an association of old men who wear dresses, hear voices and practice ritual cannibalism. Self-enforced celibacy is all but unknown among other animal species. If any sexual behavior is out of tune with the natural world, it is surely that of the priesthood.
~ George Monbiot, The Guardian, July 13, 2000

They are preserving the sanctity of marriage, so that two gay men who've been together for twenty-five years can't get married, but a guy can still get drunk in Vegas and marry a hooker at the Elvis chapel! The sanctity of marriage is saved!
~ Lea DeLaria

AIDS is a racial disease of Jews and Niggers, and fortunately it is wiping out the queers. I guess God hates queers for several reasons. There is one big reason to be against queers and that is because every time some white boy is seduced by a queer into becoming a queer, means his white bloodline has run out .
~ J. B. Stoner

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?
~ Elayne Boosler

Hear the word of the LORD, America, fag-enablers are worse than the fags themselves, and will be punished in the everlasting lake of fire! ... You telling these miserable, Hell-bound, bath house-wallowing, anal-copulating fags that God loves them!? You have bats in the belfry! ... Not only is homosexuality a sin, but anyone who supports fags is just as guilty as they are. You are both worthy of death.
~ Fred Phelps (Westboro Baptist Church)

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
~ Sigmund Freud, letter to an American mother's plea to cure her son's homosexuality, 1935

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?
~ James Baldwin

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