Feb 15, 2006 17:28
SUPPORT GAY RIGHTS
"No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
~Rita Mae Brown
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
~Dr. Seuss"
"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"
~Ernest Gaines
" the loving are the daring"
~ Bayard Taylor
"When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988 (Thank you, Marlene.)
"If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them! "
~Author unknown
"Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law." ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524
"War. Rape. Murder. Poverty. Equal rights for gays. Guess which one the Southern Baptist Convention is protesting?"
~The Value of Families
"You could move." ~Abigail Van Buren, "Dear Abby," in response to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood