Central park Quote by Troy D. Perry

“try to be an advocate for the gay community in the more conservative churches.”

— Sara Cunningham

“It was my conclusion that any people who were oppressed, particularly gay people like myself, could not depend upon others to be our heroes.…

— Troy D. Perry

“We all perform balancing acts between self and family, individual and community, private desire and group expectation. Gay people in particular must break with…

— Christopher Bram

“Individual members of certain churches in black communities should protest when worship services become a platform for teaching anti-gay sentiments. Often individuals sit and…

— bell hooks

“Gay liberation did not create gay promiscuity. There was sex before there were marches, politics, or books – it was the best reason for…

— Christopher Bram

“played the chameleon once again while trying to appease both sides. At the same time, as I came to know my sexuality and accept…

— Charles Benedict

“Homosexuality, to the limited extent it was discussed in our church, was little more than a political football, a quick test of orthodoxy.”

— Matthew Vines

“Religion does not own activism.”

— David Silverman

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

— Anonymous

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

“Masturbation was a safe sexual topic while homosexuality was not.”

— Charles Benedict

“What if the energy and resources used to preserve and tweak the civil religion was rather spent feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, befriending…

— Gregory A. Boyd