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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 25-Nov-2004 in issue 883

“Sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.”

— U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia speaking at Harvard University Sept. 28, according to The Harvard Crimson.

“Madonna does not lip-synch nor does she spend her time trashing other artists. She sang every note on her Reinvention tour live and is not ashamed that she was well-paid for her hard work. Elton John remains on her Christmas card list whether he is nice or naughty.”

— Liz Rosenberg, spokesperson for Madonna, after Elton John said during an Oct. 3 British awards program: “Anyone who lip-synchs in public on stage when you pay £75 to see them should be shot. Madonna best fucking live act? Fuck off. Since when has lip-synching been live? That’s me off her fucking Christmas card list, but do I give a toss? No.”

“To be completely honest with you, I did not know that [that Beenie Man has recorded songs urging the murder of gays.] This is my first time hearing that. Truly, if I would have known that, I would not have worked with him. It’s shocking to me – we’re on the same label, so I should have known. But at the same time, I wish someone from the company would have told me, knowing how supportive you guys have been to me and how I feel about the gay community.”

— Singer Janet Jackson to Genre magazine, October issue.

“For more than a decade, many of us fought long and hard to bring gays into the Republican fold, to defend the GOP, to advance conservative ideas in the gay community. Bush reversed all of it. Bush has done to gays nationally what Pete Wilson did for immigrants in California.”

Gay writer Andrew Sullivan, on AndrewSullivan.com, Oct. 11

“Gays are the best audience in the world—they’re the smartest, the brightest—they get it, whatever it is.”

— Comedian Joan Rivers to London’s The Pink Paper, Oct. 1.

“They just put ‘For pervasive sexual content.’ Which I think was them trying to be nice, rather than putting something like, ‘Because of felching.’”

— Gay filmmaker John Waters on the NC-17 rating given to his new film, A Dirty Shame, by the Motion Picture Association of America, to PopMatters.com, Sept. 23.

“The most obvious lesson from Sodom is that when you’re attacked by an angry mob, the holy thing to do is to offer up your virgin daughters.”

— Columnist Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, Oct. 23.

“Paul disapproves of marriage except for the sex-obsessed, saying that it is best ‘to remain unmarried as I am.’ So if we’re going to cherry-pick biblical phrases and ignore the central message of love, then perhaps we should just ban marriage altogether?”

— Columnist Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, Oct. 23.