Laura Ingraham Quotes

I was surprised how supportive my family and friends were in my coming out, and it gave and still gives me hope.

Ultimately, love conquers all, and gay or straight, don't we all want to believe that? I would that if this was to happen to me, and one of my kids had come and told me he or she was gay, I would say: If that's the only way you can live, then I love you.

I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

I have a gay cousin who came out to my parents before he came out to his own. So I benefited from having a very open, supportive family, and I want to pass that on.

It's equally as important to me to be a good friend and a good sister and a good daughter. I'm very close with my family and friends.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.

Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love.

It was just normal for me growing up with a family member with severe Down Syndrome. It was completely normal. She was just Auntie Linda. I loved her and she loved me. She had a spirit that was just positive. For me it taught me tolerance and acceptance of all human beings.

I wish my brother well. We agree to disagree, but he is a good man. He is my brother.

Neither I nor anyone in the Church would ever tolerate hatred of or prejudice towards any of the Lord's children.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Besides, I have a sister who's straight. And I want her to know that I love her and support her.

I am a Christian person, and I do love the Lord, and I feel no matter who you are, what you believe, how you live your life, it's not my place to judge. I don't have that power. I don't want that power. It's my place to love and to show God's love to other people, even if they don't live a life like I live.

I don't want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

My upbringing was faith-based, but we believed you should love all others as you want to be loved, because everyone should be treated equally. That's helped me have an understanding of people on different journeys and in different walks of life. At the end of the day, we're all the same, because we all want to be loved.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

Wherever I find love I will accept it.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty, and like Him, I love all of humanity.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

I wanted a good relationship with my mother, and I realized I had a choice: Either I could spend all my time angry that she didn't give me the hugs I thought I needed, or I could understand that she hugs differently. It's not a spread-open-the-arms, 'come here' hug. She hugs by sheltering me from her worries.

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.