Homosexuality

I am afraid there is not much support for homosexuality. Most defend homosexuality not because they believe in it because they believe in freedom to do what ever one wants.

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. 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

Harry A. Blackmum says the same thing.

Disapproval of homosexuality cannot justify invading the houses, hearts and minds of citizens who choose to live their lives differently.

Eldridge Cleaver is strongly opposed. He thinks it is a disease.

I, for one, do not think homosexuality is the latest advance over heterosexuality in the scale of human evolution. Homosexuality is a sickness, just as are baby-rape or wanting to become head of General Motors.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
James A. Baldwin



From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
Howard Dean

Marlo Thomas strongly supports homosexuality. It is in one's nature.

I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.

Francis Maude says the same thing. Homosexuality is natural for many folks.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.
Patricia Ireland

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.
Rainer W. Fassbinder

And now let us see what the father of psychiatry, Sigmund Freud says.

Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation; it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function, produced by a certain arrest of sexual development. Many highly respectable individuals of ancient and modern times have been homosexuals, several of the greatest men among them (Plato, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, etc.). It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime—and a cruelty, too. If you do not believe me, read the books of Havelock Ellis.

Kate Millet has some bad news for female homosexuals.

"Lesbianism" would appear to be so little a threat at the moment that it is hardly ever mentioned.... Whatever its potentiality in sexual politics, female homosexuality is currently so dead an issue that while male homosexuality gains a grudging tolerance, in women the event is observed in scorn or in silence.

Candace Gingrich has something not very nice to say

A leaky faucet, a barking dog—those are things you tolerate.

I think Liz Smith should have the last word.

Gays are not liberated yet. Their struggle is just beginning in an American culture that is still essentially fearful about homosexuality. But some mothers of gays now march proudly in Gay Liberation parades—their children are just as precious to them as the children being defended by anti-gay forces. No matter how anyone feels on this explosive subject, mothers and their gay children are here to stay and everyone might as well get on with dealing with, understanding, and accepting this fact.

We can love each other. A man can love another man. As a father. As a son. As a friend. As a brother. Nothing wrong in that. But when we practise "homosexual" sex that one goes over the limit. Homosexual sex does not create another human being. Doing it merely for pleasure is pointless.

But what the hell! Each as one likes it. As long as others are not hindered or hurt. That's the concept of freedom, isn't it?