Lewis F. Powell Jr. Quotes

What do you mean you don't believe in homosexuality? It's not like the Easter Bunny, your belief isn't necessary.

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.

I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.

I'm not against gay people.

I actually feel sorry for people who have a lot of illusions in their head about what gay is. I mean, I know some gay people who are really wonderful people.

I am not homophobic - in no way, shape or form.

I never said I don't like gay people.

I've never gone around bashing homosexuals, and I am not homophobic.

No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.

When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

The truth is that I am a gay American.

Gay men are still men.

Fans are going to give you crap no matter what sexual orientation you are.

If I never again had to read or write a word about homosexuals, I would be very happy.

And I'm not homophobic.

I think there would be situations that will occur on the field that would be tough for a person who is homosexual, because I know there will be people definitely taking shots at him.

I'm not homophobic and I'm not anti-gay.

For a homosexual, he's one of the nicest guys I ever met. And he's good at what he does. You know, he's got leadership ability, and if these people here would listen to him, he would take 'em a long way. But anyway, me and Richard got to be pretty good friends - not in a homosexual way, that's for sure.

Benedict XVI kept saying that homosexuals are deviant. They're not deviant. They're deviant only if you say that anyone who is different from me is abnormal.

Just because I'm in favor of gay rights doesn't mean that I'm gay or doesn't mean I'm some kind of 'sissy' or something. That's the language that you hear in locker rooms.

There's still a great deal of bias about homosexuality.

There's nothing wrong with being gay, but I'm not.

I have hardly any friends who aren't gay.

I now realize that I am a gay man before anything else. Other gays may think they're a Jew first, or black, or a banker, but I'm gay.