What interests me in this whole area is why it is this issue should have been chosen as the all-important touchstone of orthodoxy. I think the paradox is that those people who say that revisionist attitudes to some aspects of sexual morality are a mark of slavery to the present age are in danger themselves […]
Homosexuality Quotes
Marriage is a vital social institution. The exclusive commitment of two individuals to each other nurtures love and mutual support; it brings stability to our society. For those who choose to marry, and for their children, marriage provides an abundance of legal, financial, and social benefits. In return it imposes weighty legal, financial, and social […]
If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. (Leviticus 20:13)
The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church’s founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, and his wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour, and his wife Anne of Cleves, and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine […]
I’d say it’s the peculiar genius of the left to have made homosexuality incredibly boring: I don’t think Cole Porter would have seen any point to being gay if it was all about lobbying for reciprocal pension benefits.
Sometimes I feel that I’m a lesbian trapped in a man’s body – which actually works out pretty well.
Language has been an important weapon in the gay movement’s very swift advance. In the old days, there was sodomy: an act. In the late 19th century the word homosexuality was coined: a condition. A generation ago, the accepted term became gay: an identity. Each formulation raises the stakes: One can object to and even […]
Some years ago, the (gay) columnist Andrew Sullivan said to me that he reckoned there was more male-on-male sex in the days before the invention of gayness as a round-the- clock identity. I don’t doubt it. But that only makes the triumph of gay marriage even more impressive: In the western world a minority that […]
I would try to get between them. (Strachey, a gay man who sought exemption from military service as a conscientious objector, appearing before a military tribunal, he was grilled about his beliefs. At one point, the head of the tribunal challenged Strachey by asking, “What would you do if you saw a German soldier trying […]
If homosexuality is a disease, let’s all call in sick to work. “Hello, can’t work today. Still queer.”
