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Published Thursday, 19-Mar-2009 in issue 1108
“Homosexuality is seen as a violation of this natural creative order, and it is an offense to God. ... Leviticus 18:22 says: ‘You shall not lie with a man as one lies with a female. It is an abomination.’ Leviticus 20:13 says, ‘If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act, and they shall surely be put to death.’ ... When we create laws that goes (sic) against what biblically we are supposed to stand for, I think we are agreeing, or allowing to go forward, a sin which should not be treated by government as something that is legal. ... We are taking sins and making them to be legally OK, and that is wrong. That is an abomination. ... And I’m not saying that this is the only sin that’s out there. Obviously, we have sin. We have murder, we have all sorts of sins. We have adultery. And we don’t make laws making those legal. ... All sin is equal. That sin there is as equal to any other sin that’s in the Bible.”
Colorado Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley, on the floor of the Senate Feb. 23 during debate on a bill to allow gay state employees to share health benefits with their partners. The bill passed.
“We should absolutely be holding our elected officials, including President Obama, to their commitments to support those three pieces of legislation.”
Gay U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., to the gay newspaper Dallas Voice, in regard to passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the addition of domestic partner benefits for federal employees, Feb. 20.
“Well, I think the gay people have always liked me because I have always been myself, I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me, I don’t judge nor criticize people. I think that’s another reason they at least know that I’m sympathetic. I think all people have a right to be who they are. We’re all God’s children and God should be the one to judge, not other people. So I have a lot of gay friends, lesbian friends. I work with a lot of people. I am not gay. I have been accused of that. But I have been happily married for 42 years to the same man. And he’s not the least bit, you know, threatened by the fact that I may be gay. And he knows I have a lot of friends. But I love everybody. It doesn’t matter to me.”
Dolly Parton to CNN’s Larry King, Feb. 21.
“[T]he Republicans have dissolved into a querulous lot of nags and naysayers without a voice, a direction or a clue. ... And who has surfaced as their saviors? Bobby Jindal, Michael Steele and Rush Limbaugh – the axis of drivel.”
New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, March 7.
“It’s a monster book. ... It’s an attempt to put us (gay people) back in history from the beginning. No history book ever recorded anything about us, and researching this book I found out that both (Abraham) Lincoln and George Washington were gay. ... I have stuff that will go beyond anything that has ever been written or said.”
Veteran gay and AIDS activist, author and playwright Larry Kramer discussing his upcoming book, The American People: A History, with the Montreal newspaper Hour, March 5.
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