Andrew Solomon Quotes

I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Respondent would have us announce a fundamental right to engage in homosexual sodomy. This we are quite unwilling to do.

I'm dead against the idea that you should try to "cure" people of being gay.

It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.

I'm not against gay people... I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. What I'm critical off are actions that violate the word of God.

If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.

In Russia all people enjoy the equal rights, including homosexuals.

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Inequality for gay and lesbian people is no longer a debatable issue in either church or state.

I'm for all kinds of gay rights. I'm almost like a gay man myself.

Homosexuality is anti-humanity.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

If dogs and pigs don't do it [homosexuality] why must human beings. Let the Americans keep their sodomy, bestiality, stupid and foolish ways to themselves, out of Zimbabwe. We don't want these practices here. Let them be gay in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.

Statistics tell us that 10 percent of the population is homosexual. Since we in the Conservative party are representative of the population, there are at least 20 gays in this room. Am I wrong? … Are you ready to deprive these people of their rights?

Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights.

Islam does not require a war against … homosexuals. Gays are sexual perverts who should be thrown from a high place.

I’ve always been a supporter of Gay Marriage. There are all different kinds of people—left and right handed, gay and straight. And I don’t believe God made a mistake in creating them that way.

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.

Being gay is not a crime.

Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.

When you look at the homosexual agenda, I cannot support something that I believe brings nothing but self-destruction, not only physically but of their soul.

They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? It’s absurd.

God knows, as a minority, gay people have taken serious lumps for their sexual preferences. As has every minority.