Abnormal Quote by John Shelby Spong

“The Church insists on teaching that my—along with so many other’s—homosexual inclination is intrinsically disordered and my homosexual acts—even with my husband—are sinful.”

— Charles Benedict

I'm honestly not sure that I've ever tried to talk as a theologian about "homosexual acts," per se. My disagreement with the current teaching…

— James Alison

It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Nothing is so inconsistent with the life of any Christian as overindulgence. —The Rule of Benedict”

— Chris Seay

“The definition of irony - A Pope who refuses to give law enforcement the names of hundreds (or maybe thousands) of predatory homosexual pedophile…

— Dave Champion

There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in…

— Dennis Altman

“[A]t least since the late nineteenth century when the primary role in categorising sexual behaviour and naming what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘perverse’…

— Richard Dunphy

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Homosexuality is immutable, irreversible and nonpathological.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope…

— Angelo Bagnasco

“I guess the lesson to be learned from the [Catholic] church is that while homosexuality is a sin against GOD, molestation and rape, well...…

— David Cross

“What matters is that like a rather large proportion of straight Catholics, I think gay people are pretty much the same as everyone else.…

— Kaya Oakes