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Compiled by Rex Wockner

Published Thursday, 17-Feb-2005 in issue 895

“The ideal in society is to raise children with a man and a woman. Private adoption firms can make whatever choice they choose to do. As president, I will always be aiming for the ideal. ... And as governor and as president – when I was governor of Texas my position was that this is the ideal. And I believe children can receive love from gay couples, but the ideal is – and studies have shown that the ideal is – where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman.”

— President George W. Bush to The New York Times, Jan. 28.

“Within the diocese of New Hampshire, I’m delighted to say that I’m not the gay bishop. I’m just the bishop. ... Once I cross the border, I become the gay bishop again. ... I would love to be old news, but for the moment I don’t seem to be that yet.”

— Gene Robinson, the only openly gay and noncelibate bishop in the U.S. Episcopal Church, speaking at Berkeley, California’s Pacific School of Religion in late January.

“To the vast sentient population of the planet, people like those in Focus on the Family and the American Family Association (the other terrified little group that found SpongeBob to be sexually dangerous) are, well, just plain sad, small, lost in a world where everything is a threat and everything wants to stab at their mealy souls and everything reeks of debauchery and demonism and copious amounts of residual Astroglide.”

— SFGate.com columnist Mark Morford, Jan. 26.

“Liberal Americans have been eyeing the Canadian border as their escape hatch since the tragedy of November’s U.S. presidential election. But anyone seriously thinking of movin’ on up should scratch the surface of our image as a hip and happening nation. Beneath the fashionable attire of same-sex marriage, you’ll find Canada sporting a rather fussy petticoat. Americans may think of Canada as a nanny state, given the way we coddle our citizens with free health care and equality provisions. But Canada’s nanny is not just the caring nurse; she’s also a strict governess. Specifically, she’s a sexually repressed and somewhat hysterical Victorian governess, right out of a Henry James story, who determines our appropriate behaviors and activities.”

— David Walberg, publisher of the Toronto gay newspaper Xtra!, writing in the Jan. 20 issue.

“So why am I choosing to leave GLAAD? There’s nothing cryptic or complicated about this. This job requires a lot of travel. I’d like to travel less and be at home a bit more. I’d like to be in town to see more of Sarah’s school musicals, Ben’s Little League games, Kit’s gymnastics exhibitions. I’d like to go to the movies with my partner, Eileen, once in a while.”

— Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Executive Director Joan Garry in an Jan. 28 email. She will step down June 15.

“The only reason to put gay marriage on the ballot in those 11 states [that banned gay marriage Nov. 2] was to scapegoat a minority that was unpopular in order to win an election.”

— Former presidential candidate Howard Dean addressing supporters in New York City, Jan. 30.