Archive for the ‘Quotable’ Category

The Quotable Sinead O’Connor

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

“From the Pope on down, through the Vatican and therefore through the lower echelons, the whole organisation, in my belief, is utterly anti-Christian and evil, as proven by centuries of torture, bloodshed, burnings, terrorism, and coverings-up of “the worst crime” known to man.

“And if Jesus Christ is to be seen in the vulnerable of this world, then all the church has done is crucify the man over and over and over again.

“If Christ was here, he would be burning down the Vatican. And I for one would be helping him.”

Sinead O’Connor, Irish activist and singer/songwriter, from I’d help Jesus to burn down the Vatican — responding to the plea by Catholic Bishop Denis Brennan for rank and file Irish Catholics to help cover the mounting expenses of the church’s massive pedophile priest scandal

(tip: Joe.My.God.)

The Quotable Roseanne Barr

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

“[marie osmonds poor gay son killed himself] because he had been told how wrong and how sick he was every day of his life by his church and the people in it. Calling that “depression” is a lie!

“Yet the Osmonds still talk lovingly about their church, saying nothing about its extremely anti-gay Crusade. Marie also has a gay daughter! Hey, I want her and all the gay kids in the world to know that they are just fine being gay and that they deserve love and respect instead of insults and rebuke! I have gay people in my family and my circle of friends and I am kicking bigot ass and taking names!

“That is how its done in my religion—(I have my own religion that I made up for myself and it is a great religion that actually works and respects facts and not fantasy!)

“Gerald Lund one of the ex church apostles has three gay kids himself.

“Yet, even though the people they say they love the most in all of their public displays and speeches (THEIR KIDS AND FAMILY!!) are gay,– their own children,for crying out loud- these people cannot find the christian decency and compassion within themselves to stop their hypocritical gay bashing!!

“How sickening. I know so many mormon kids who were gay and committed suicide, and I just cannot and will not stay quiet in order to not offend bigots anymore. It is all so terribly depressing.”

Roseanne Barr, American writer, producer, actress and comedian,
from marie osmonds poor gay son killed himself

The Quotable Wanda Sykes

Friday, February 26th, 2010

“It’s not going to make the military soft or anything. I mean, they’re soldiers. We’re talking, yea, they’re gay, but we’re not talking Ru Paul, Elton John gay, we’re talking ‘Brokeback Mountain’ gay.”

Wanda Sykes, comedian, commenting on the military’s homophobic Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher

The Quotable Patrick Strudwick

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

“The message of our protest is simple. Love needs no cure. We want to remind the young people in the conference in the midst of so-called treatment that they are healthy, normal, valuable people; they are perfect how they are; they don’t need to try to change something unchangeable and they can be happy being who they really are.”

Patrick Strudwick, journalist and founder of SCOTT (Stop Conversion Therapy Taskforce), on the message offered to attendees of a recent conversion therapy/ex-gay conference in Belfast

The Quotable Linda Hirshman

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

“In the confrontation between an irrefutable religious standard and a worldly empirical survey, the challenge to California’s prohibition on gay marriage reveals a fissure that runs throughout American history: Are we modern or are we medieval? Do Americans live together in a social contract for our material well-being, or are we following ancient traditions of how to live, because tradition is a better teacher than reason? This issue does not surface often in the United States, but it did most powerfully almost 90 years ago in Scopes vs. the State of Tennessee, the “monkey trial.” And it did so again this week.”

Linda Hirshman, author and professor of philosophy, on the start of the federal Perry v Schwarzenegger Prop 8 trial, from Gay Marriage’s Great Hope