"It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples,"

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Source : "First openly gay bishop Gene Robinson announces divorce from husband" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2014.

Gene Robinson

#Couple Quotes #Gay Quotes #Rights Quotes

“Luis Suarez is a victim of his own make-up”
“And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a little angry, "and I trust her." Mothers are usually women," said the Spook. "And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!”
“I'm not extremely political. I think everything should be layed out and you can make your own conclusions. As soon as I feel I'm being taught something or preached something, I just glaze over it and I don't want to hear it.”
“If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.”
“Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.”
“I've been indicted for rules that don't even exist”

Source : The Hill Interview, December 11, 2006.
“When desire dies, fear is born.”
“The question is -- Who will get to heaven first; the man who talks or the man who acts?”

Source : Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”

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