Desmond Tutu Quotes

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

I don't think that, if you do everything else in your life right and you happen to be gay, you're automatically going to hell.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

It was really intense for me to start having conversations with God, when according to the man-made laws in my religion - to be homosexual is evil.

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

God did not create gays and lesbians so He could have something to hate!

Scientology is one of the least homophobic religions. It's not very interested in the body at all.

I was very curious about the world even at a young age, and I don't know at what point I became aware that other cultures believed in different religions, and my question was, 'Well, why don't they get to go to Heaven then?'

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

If someone thinks homosexuality is immoral, they have a right to believe that.

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

We came not here to view your works In hopes to be more wise, But only, lest we go to Hell, It may be no surprise.

If they’re [homosexuals are] not going to get eternal benefits in Heaven, why should we give them government rewards here on this earth? I don’t think we should.

Simply put, if The Lord made homosexuals as well as heterosexuals, why should I discriminate against their civil marriage? I shouldn't, and I won't.

Homosexuality is a violation of God's standard.

One of my best friends was gay and Mormon, and I saw how conflicted he was. It was the first time my faith didn't align with my mind and heart and the first time I was being taught something at church that I was like, 'Hey, this doesn't seem right.'

I don't feel confident at all in my beliefs about God. That's definitely scary. But I don't believe anymore that God hates almost all of mankind. I don't think that, if you do everything else in your life right and you happen to be gay, you're automatically going to hell. I don't believe anymore that WBC has a monopoly on truth.

We have to start making sure that churches start to talk about... black queerness in a way that's affirming. Because a lot of young black men are in the church, and that's where they start to learn this self-hate behavior.

Heaven and hell are something that people create to make some people feel guilty and other people like myself laugh.

Elder McKinley wants his homosexuality to be turned off. To be a perfect Mormon, he has to put his feelings away.

I don't understand why gay people are so anxious to get married.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn’t worship that God.

I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven.