Church Quote by Thomas Keneally

“I know that whatever the complex origins of my own homosexuality are, there have been conscious choices I've made to indulge - and therefore…

— Wesley Hill

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

— Luke Ford

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

Over the years of much self-hate, I came to realize that whether sexuality was in my life or not, it didn't seem to matter.…

— Frederick Lenz

“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

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.

— James McGreevey

When I first walked into a church, I was judged heavily for my life, and how I had lived, and that's part of the…

— Heather Veitch

Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.

— Troy Perry

The church says we should get down on our knees and repent. Well, excuse me, but didn't being on my knees cause most of…

— Bob Smith

I was brought up as a Catholic. I've got A-level guilt.

— Billy Connolly

When I started going to church, my first memories are of the minister getting up and accusing us of being full of sin, though…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“It was only Christianity, with resentment against life in its foundations, which made sexuality something impure: it threw filth on the beginning, on the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche