Figures Quote by Bill Maher

Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual…

— Timothy Radcliffe

The priesthood in many ways is the ultimate closet in Western civilization, where gay people particularly have hidden for the past two thousand years.

— John Shelby Spong

(The Catholic Church must) clean out the pedophiles, break up the gay cliques, tighten up the seminary, and restore the good name of the…

— Andrew Greeley

Sisters, some will try to persuade you that because you are not ordained to the priesthood, you have been shortchanged. They are simply wrong,…

— Sheri L. Dew

I worry about all who are impure in their thoughts, feelings, or actions or who demean their wives or children, thereby cutting off priesthood…

— Russell M. Nelson

There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops…

— Gene Robinson

We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them at…

— John Shelby Spong

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change…

— Iris Murdoch

One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not…

— Andrew Greeley

“Two of my closest seminary friends broke all contact with me after I told them I was leaving priesthood and coming out of the…

— Charles Benedict

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family…

— Jasmine Guy

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

— Andrew Sullivan