Action Quote by Pope Benedict XVI

Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then…

— Andrew Solomon

If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority…

— Orson Scott Card

We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered…

— Paul King Jewett

“One of the most striking things about the New Testament teaching on homosexuality is that, right on the heels of the passages that condemn…

— Wesley Hill

Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.

— Ian Mckellen

The police or any higher authority should never try and criminalise people for their sexuality. It is something that is to great extent given…

— Abhimanyu Singh

Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their…

— Gary DeMar

Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does…

— Lance B. Wickman

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

There is a fundamental similarity between the persecution of individuals who engage in consenting homosexual activity in private, or who ingest, inject, or smoke…

— Thomas Szasz

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in…

— George Carey

In at least one country where homosexual activists have won major concessions, we have even seen a church pastor threatened with prison for preaching…

— Dallin H. Oaks