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“The publicity from this campaign has made me a target. One of the letters I received said ‘I know where you live, I know what you do [and] if you don’t stop with your AIDS carrying activism it will be stopped for you.’ The letter was signed ‘proud National Party voter and Christian’.”
AUSTRALIAN LGB CAMPAIGNER BEN COOPER GETS A CHRISTIAN MESSAGE (GREEN LEFT 17-11-07)
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"God must be weeping looking at some of the atrocities that we commit against one another. In the face of all of that, our Church, especially the Anglican Church, at this time is almost obsessed with questions of human sexuality. Why doesn't he (Dr Rowan Williams) demonstrate a particular attribute of God's which is that God is a welcoming God?"
DESMOND TUTU (EKKLESIA 19-11-07)
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‘F--- you, you f---in’ faggots. You’re a bunch of faggoty faggots, you’re a bunch of a--holes – don’t show me your a--hole,’
CASEY BAKER, OF CASEY BAKER AND THE BUFFALO SINNERS, TO A MEMBER OF THE AUDIENCE WHO MOONED AT THEIR GIG. THEY WERE ASKED TO LEAVE THE STAGE (CORD WEEKLY 14-11-07)
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'Amnesty International calls on the Lithuanian authorities to respect the right to peaceful freedom of assembly for all, the right not to be discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation and to actively promote respect for diversity in their country.
'The Lithuanian authorities also need to offer adequate police protection to the country's gay community.'
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PROTESTS AGAINST THE RISING TIDE OF HOMOPHOBIA IN LITHUANIA (amnesty.org.uk 12-11-07)
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I would, as president, make absolutely certain that all federal laws pertaining to married couples [pertain to] same-sex couples who have civil unions as well.
OBAMA BARAK (ATLANTIC.COM 12-11-07)