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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 27-Dec-2007 in issue 1044

“Sure, they can do whatever they want and they can call it whatever they want, just so they don’t expect to impose their relationship on somebody else. They can’t make me, personally, accept what they do, but they can, gay couples can do whatever they want. As a matter of fact, I’d like to see all governments out of the marriage question. I don’t think it’s a state function. I think it’s a religious function. And there was a time when only churches dealt with, you know, marriage, and they determined what it was. But a hundred years or so ago for health reasons they claim that the state would protect us if we knew more about our spouses and we did health testing – and you had to get a license to get married and I don’t agree with that.”

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul to ABC News, Dec. 7.

“I feel so sorry for [Sen. Larry] Craig. ... I mean, when do you finally get to a point when you can say: ‘This is who I am. No more apologies, no more lies.’ How frightened he must be. Now it’s easy for people just to put him down, but when you try to understand just where this person is and what he has, he thinks his image is so valuable that he’s willing to lose all credibility, because he doesn’t have a credible story. And the further he goes with it the more asinine it all becomes.”

Openly gay Ron Oden, who finished his term as mayor of Palm Springs on Dec. 6, to the local gay magazine The Bottom Line, Dec. 7.

“If he was out of office, it wasn’t really relevant [to keep chasing the story]. But then he decided to stay. ... I don’t like writing about anal sex for people who don’t want to read about it over their corn flakes.”

Dan Popkey, The Idaho Statesman reporter who has doggedly pursued the story of U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s alleged numerous gay sexcapades, to Editor & Publisher, Dec. 3. The Statesman now has published the stories of eight men – four of them named – who claim they had sex with Craig or experienced sexual come-ons from him.

“[T]he only real difference between radical Islam and Christianity’s own bloody, murderous past is, well, a bit of time, with a splash of geography. Ah yes, the bloody crusades, the sadistic assaults on conflicting belief systems, the gay popes and murderous priests and boundless hypocrisy, the book burnings and witch burnings and pagan slaughters and a billion sexual oppressions, the mountains of guilt and shame and sin sin sin. Been there, done that, still doing a great deal of it but not quite as, you know, explicitly as before. Note to righteous Christians: That violent Sudanese march [against the teddy bear named Muhammad]? Different branch, same family tree.”

San Francisco Chronicle columnist Mark Morford, Dec. 5.

“I have little sympathy for people who whine about Bush. You know those watches that say ‘Only so many days until Bush leaves office’? Oh, gee, that’s real effective. Why don’t you cause a riot? Why don’t you shut down a university? Stop whining! All people do is whine! He won! Do something!”

Gay filmmaker John Waters to the Montreal weekly newspaper Hour, Dec. 13.