QUOTES

"Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites." -Thomas Jefferson

"A real-life description to me would be a rape victim, brutally raped, savaged, the girl was a virgin. She was religious. She planned on saving her virginity until she was married. She was brutalized and raped, sodomized as bad as you can possibly make it, and is impregnated. I mean, that girl could be so messed up, physically and psychologically, that carrying that child could very well threaten her life." -Bill Napoli, Republican state senator in South Dakota, on when the compassionate state of S. Dakota would consider allowing an abortion to occur.

QUOTES ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND HOMOSEXUALITY

“If necessary, I will support a constitutional amendment which would honor marriage between a man and a woman” –George W. Bush

“The Bible says that because of certain abominations such as homosexuality, a land shall vomit out it’s inhabitants…[According to Paul], when values are turned upside down and moral anarchy appears, men burn with lust for other men and women burn for women, and they will receive in their own bodies the punishment for their actions. From a biblical standpoint, the rise of homosexuality is a sign that a society is in the last stages of decay.” – Pat Robertson

“If the world accepts homosexuality as it’s norm and if it moves the entire world in that regard, the whole world is then going to be sitting like Sodom and Gomorrah before a Holy God. And when the wrath of God comes on this earth, we will all be guilty and we will all suffer for it.” – Pat Robertson

"Just like what Nazi Germany did to the Jews, so liberal America is now doing to the evangelical Christians. It's no different. It is the same thing. It is happening all over again. It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-based media and the homosexuals who want to destroy the Christians. Wholesale abuse and discrimination and the worst bigotry directed toward any group in America today. More terrible than anything suffered by any minority in history." --Pat Robertson

"Many of those people involved with Adolph Hitler were Satanists, many of them were homosexuals--the two things seem to go together." --Pat Robertson

“It is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism-everything the bible condemns.” – Pat Robertson talking about Planned Parenthood

“NOW is saying that in order to be a woman, you’ve got to be a lesbian.” – Pat Robertson talking about NOW (National Organization of Women)

"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians." -- Pat Robertson

"I know this is painful for the ladies to hear, but if you get married, you have accepted the headship of a man, your husband. Christ is the head of the household and the husband is the head of the wife, and that's the way it is, period." --Pat Robertson

“God hates homosexuality.” -- Rev. Jerry Falwell

“If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.” -- Rev. Jerry Falwell

“AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals; it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.” --Rev. Jerry Falwell

“I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One’s misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who indeed deserve minority status.” – Rev. Jerry Falwell

“Someone must not be afraid to say, ‘moral perversion is wrong.’ If we do not act now, homosexuals will ‘own’ America! …If you and I do not speak up now, this homosexual steamroller will literally crush all decent men, women, and children who get in its way…and our nation will pay a terrible price!” – Rev. Jerry Falwell

“The ACLU is to Christians what the American Nazi party is to Jews.” – Rev. Jerry Falwell

“AIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals. To oppose it would be like an Israelite jumping in the Red Sea to save one of Pharaoh’s charioteers.” – Rev. Jerry Falwell

"Most of these feminists are radical, frustrated lesbians, many of them, and man-haters, and failures in their relationships with men, and who have declared war on the male gender. The Biblical condemnation of feminism has to do with its radical philosophy and goals. That's the bottom line." – Rev. Jerry Falwell

“Grown men should not be having sex with prostitutes unless they are married to them.” –Rev. Jerry Falwell

“It appears that America's anti-Biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men's movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening.” – Rev. Jerry Falwell

“And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way -- all of them who have tried to secularize America -- I point the finger in their face and say, You helped this happen.” -- Rev. Jerry Falwell, blaming civil libertarians, feminists, homosexuals, and abortion rights supporters for the terrorist attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2001

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism." --Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue

“Overnight, you’ll have the court saying…homosexual marriage is a protected right. I would call it a blitzkrieg of the homosexual juggernaut. It’s not an erosion. It’s a frontal assault on decency and morality.” -- Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue on the Supreme Court decision banning anti-sodomy laws

“If the militant homosexuals succeed in their accursed agenda, God will curse and judge our nation… The goal of the homosexual movement is to ‘mainstream’ unspeakable acts of evil… Their cries for tolerance are really a demand for our surrender. They want us to surrender our values, our love for God’s law, our faith, our families, the entire nation to their abhorrent agenda.” -- Randall Terry, Founder of Operation Rescue; in his campaign literature from his 1998 run for congress in New York

“Ideally, it would have been nice to have a few phalanxes of policemen with machine guns and mow them down.” –Talk Radio Host Bob Grant, WABC, New York, discussing New York’s annual Gay Pride Parade

“The homosexual blitzkrieg has been better planned and executed than Hitler’s.” – Rep. William Dannemeyer (R-CA)

“Homosexuality—The Party believes that the practice of sodomy tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit, and leads to the spread of dangerous, communicable diseases. Homosexual behavior is contrary to the fundamental, unchanging truths that have been ordained by God, recognized by our country’s founders, and shared by the majority of Texans. Homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable ‘alternative’ lifestyle in our public education and policy, nor should ‘family’ be redefined to include homosexual ‘couples.’ We are opposed to any granting of special legal entitlements, recognition, or privileges including, but not limited to, marriage between persons of the same sex, custody of children by homosexuals, homosexual partner insurance or retirement benefits. We oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction, or belief in traditional values.” – From the 2002 Republican Party of Texas Platform

“Gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.” --California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The GOP has done more for gay rights than the Democratic National Committee ever did.” –Maurice Bonamigo, trying to start a chapter of the Log Cabin Republican group in Palm Beach, Florida

"The opportunity to be threatened, humiliated and to live in fear of being beaten to death is the only 'special right' our culture bestows on homosexuals." - Diane Carman, Denver Post

“To compare rich, privileged homosexual lobby groups allied with transsexuals and sadomasochists to brave civil rights crusaders- who risked their lives to advance freedom- insults every black American who overcame real injustice and poverty. It’s time for the homosexual lobby to stop co-opting the black civil rights struggle. The [National Gay and Lesbian] Task Force’s agenda of promoting perversion- including public homosexual sex, sadomasochism and bisexuality- would offend the vast majority of African-Americans who understand the difference between God-designed racial distinctions and changeable, immoral behavior.” –Sandy Rios, President of Concerned Women for America

“it’s a religious belief to me that homosexuality flies in the face of biblical teachings. Now, where I have difficulties is in determining wheter it’s a genetic predisposition or whether it is a choice. Either way, though, in contradiction to people of color, people of color can’t do anything about their color, but I do believe gay people have a choice to live within the legal rules or not…It’s up to them, that they do have a choice, where an African-American has no choice with regard to the color of their skin. So that’s why we have civil-rights laws to protect African-Americans from discrimination.” –Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)

AS LONG AS THEY MADE THE COMPARISON…

“Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.” –Coretta Scott King, wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

"I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice," she said. "But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'" "I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people." –Coretta Scott King

"We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be," she said, quoting her husband. "I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy." –Coretta Scott King

"For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people, Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions." –Coretta Scott King

“I have worked too long and hard against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern. Justice is indivisible. Like Martin, I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.” –Coretta Scott King

QUOTES FROM THE CHAMPIONS OF A “CULTURE OF LIFE”

“You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop. But this man is a terrific danger and the United ... This is in our sphere of influence, so we can't let this happen. We have the Monroe Doctrine, we have other doctrines that we have announced. And without question, this is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil, that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.” –Pat Robertson

“Wait a minute, I didn't say 'assassination.' I said our special forces should, quote, "take him out," and "take him out" can be a number of things including kidnapping. There are a number of ways to take out a dictator from power besides killing him. I was misinterpreted by the AP, but that happens all the time.” –Pat Robertson

So Robertson claimed that he had been “misinterpreted by the Associated Press,” is he really this stupid or does he just assume that the rest of us are really this stupid? He denied having advocated the political murder of a foreign head of state on his nationally broadcast television show and he really thought that he would be able to deny having said it and would get away with it. He may well have gotten away with it, if it wasn’t for media watchdog groups like www.mediamatters.org who had posted transcripts and video footage of Robertson’s call for murder, and pressured the Christian Broadcast Network and Robertson to take responsibility for his comments.

Applying more pressure Venezuela slammed Robertson’s call for the murder of their President. Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel said Venezuela was considering legal action against Robertson for his statements, arguing "There is a legal measure in the United States that condemns and punishes statements of this nature," and "It's a huge hypocrisy to maintain this discourse against terrorism and at the same time, in the heart of that country, there are entirely terrorist statements like those."

"When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that [American Taliban supporter] John Walker [Lindh] is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed too. Otherwise they will turn out to be outright traitors." –Ann Coulter

“Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, "Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore," and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, "Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death." And you know, well, I'm not sure.” –Glen Beck

“I mean, but this is what they're saying. It is just -- you just sit there, you go, ‘They'll never get it until they grab Michael Kinsley out of his little house and they cut his head off.’ And maybe when the blade sinks in, he'll go, ‘Perhaps O'Reilly was right’.” -Bill O’Reilly

TESTIMONIALS FROM DARFURI REFUGEES

"I was living with my family in Tawila and going to school when one day the Janjawid entered the town and attacked the school. We tried to leave the school but we heard noises of bombing in the town and started running in all directions. All the girls were scared. The Janjawid entered the school and caught some girls and raped them in the class rooms. I was raped by four men inside the school. When they left they told us they would take care of all of us black people and clean Darfur for good."

"I was sleeping when the attack on Disa started. I was taken away by the attackers, they were all in uniforms. They took dozens of other girls and made us walk for three hours. During the day we were beaten and they were telling us: "You, the black women, we will exterminate you, you have no god." At night we were raped several times. The Arabs(1) guarded us with arms and we were not given food for three days." A female refugee from Disa

When we tried to escape they shot more children. They raped women; I saw many cases of Janjawid raping women and girls. They are happy when they rape. They sing when they rape and they tell that we are just slaves and that they can do with us how they wish." A female refugee from Mukjar

"There was also another rape on a young single girl aged 17: M. was raped by six men in front of her house in front of her mother. M’s brother, S., was then tied up and thrown into fire." H., a 35-year-old Fur man from Mukjar

"In July 2003, the Arabs raped M, 14, on the market square and threatened to shoot on the witnesses if they tried to intervene. They also raped other girls in the bush." S., a 28 year old Zaghawa woman from Habila region

"I was with another woman, Aziza, aged 18, who had her stomach slit on the night we were abducted. She was pregnant and was killed as they said: "it is the child of an enemy."A woman of Irenga ethnicity from the village of Garsila

A Zaghawa man from Miski, in the district of Kutum, told Amnesty International: "At 7am in August 2003, our village was surrounded by the Janjawid; we heard machine guns and most of the people ran away, some were killed while trying to escape. My sister, M., aged 43, was captured by the military and the Janjawid. They tried to sleep with her. She resisted, I was present and could hear her: "I will not do something like this even if you kill me" and they immediately killed her. Other people were also present when this happened."

"The attack took place at 8am on 29 February 2004 when soldiers arrived by car, camels and horses. The Janjawid were inside the houses and the soldiers outside. Some 15 women and girls who had not fled quickly enough were raped in different huts in the village. The Janjawid broke the limbs (arms or legs) of some women and girls to prevent them from escaping. The Janjawid remained in the village for six or seven days. After the rapes, the Janjawid looted the houses." a 30-year-old woman from Um Baru

"They took K.M., who is 12 years old in the open air. Her father was killed by the Janjawid in Um Baru, the rest of the family ran away and she was captured by the Janjawid who were on horse back. More than six people used her as a wife; she stayed with the Janjawid and the military more than 10 days. K, another woman who is married, aged 18, ran away but was captured by the Janjawid who slept with her in the open place, all of them slept with her. She is still with them. A, a teacher, told me that they broke her leg after raping her."A., a 66- year-old farmer from Um Baru in the district of Kutum.

TESTIMONIALS FROM RWANDAN REFUGEES
IS THIS WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR THE REFUGEES OF DARFUR?

"During the genocide, the militia at the barriers said they would protect me, but instead they kept me and raped me in their homes. One militia member would keep me for two or three days, and then another would choose me. If killers came to their house, the militia member would say I was his sister. I had to stay with these men because I would have been killed otherwise. The conditions were very favorable for HIV transmission. I managed to flee Kigali, and when I returned, I learned that my husband had been killed. My husband was a Hutu, and he had gotten a Hutu identity card for me because he hoped it would protect me. Because I had this card, I was denied assistance from IBUKA [support organization for genocide survivors] for my children or from the government fund for genocide survivors". -Francine, HIV-positive, Kigali

"In 1998, I was leaving for boarding school in Gisenyi. Just before reaching the town...we were ambushed by the abacengezi [insurgents]...The taxi rolled over, and as the passengers fled the vehicle, the abacengezi chopped them with machetes. I managed to hide under corpses but heard the rebels saying they would get fuel to burn the bodies. I cried out, and they stabbed me...and carried me into the forest...There were other women and girls there too, from different parts of the country who were kidnapped under similar circumstances. ... Members of the militia came each night to rape me, until one night a militia member announced that I was his, that he was my "husband". I only thought of escaping to my family...We had to flee constantly because they were being chased by the Rwandese army. During a major offensive of the government military in Gishwati forest, I managed to flee when everyone else was dispersed...then returned home...A few years later, an RPF soldier came to my house and wanted to have sex with me. I tried to convince him that I was HIV-positive and couldn’t have sex. It was like a rape. Because he was a soldier, I felt I couldn’t shout. He wanted to marry me, and since he was a soldier I felt I had no choice. I made him get tested the day after the rape, and it turned out he was already HIV-positive. I married him against my will. My hopes have been dashed. I have finished my studies. I am very upset because my family pinned all their hopes on me, sacrificed to have me educated, but I fear I will soon be dead and my family members will not benefit from their sacrifice." Angčle, HIV positive, Kigali-Ngali

"During the war, the militia came and would look for young men to kill and for girls to have sex. For one week, I had sex with a different one each night, and they threatened to kill me...Now I am the head of the household. Fortunately, my younger siblings have gotten assistance for their school fees, and I have been taking anti-retrovirals for nine months. I want to get married and find someone who will help take care of my brother and sister. Sometimes people ask to marry me, but I have to say no because I don’t want to infect my potential husband. I feel different from other young people, who have their whole lives ahead of them." -Clémentine, Kigali-Ngali, age 30.

“My husband was imprisoned one week after the war, though nobody has come to accuse him...I suspect my brother-in-law of infecting me... After my husband was imprisoned, his brother started coming around and insisted that I had to have sex with him in order to confirm that I was still part of the family. Eventually I had to give in. ... I worry because I had extramarital relations and about what will happen when my husband returns from prison. I will be kicked out and my children will be maltreated by the new wife. I refuse to keep silent and contaminate him...All of this happened only because of the war. My husband was my confidante-he wouldn’t be in jail, and I wouldn’t be infected, if it weren’t for the war." -Florence, Kigali-Ngali

"I was raped during the war by five interahamwe, even though I am Hutu. I was a virgin, so maybe the rape was the cause of my sterility. When I got tested for HIV in 2000, my husband tore up the test results. He can’t accept that I’m in an association for people living with AIDS, and that I’m sterile... I haven’t gotten food from him for five months... I don’t get assistance from the government programs because I am of the wrong ethnicity." -Rape survivor, HIV-positive, from Gitarama.

"I was in Nyanza during the war, and my husband was killed. The militia raped me and my sisters-in-law. Those who talked back were killed. I was shy, so I survived...I was already pregnant at the time, now my child is ten years old...My second husband is out of his mind, and I have gotten sicker because of the worries he gives me. He abandoned me when he learned I had HIV, which is why I am crying so much now. He denigrated me in front of the neighborhood, so now my neighbors also make fun of me. Maybe my husband is healthy, so that’s why he did it. He refuses to get tested. I am worried because I have no property, no money for food for the children, and we live badly. I am always sick and we are too poor...I don’t get help from the government because I didn’t lose enough people during the genocide." -Rape survivor, Kigali

My children were tormented on December 1st after the AIDS day activities. My older children are aware of my condition and are courageous, but the little ones can’t accept that their mother is infected. The little ones shout back at those who tease them and say they don’t believe their mother is sick." -Woman living with HIV, Kigali-Ngali

"People know that we come to these meetings on the weekend, so they assume that we have AIDS. Sometimes our children are tormented as a result, and then may come to confront us. They treat the whole family as if it is infected, and many people still seem to believe that you might get HIV just from greeting someone. You risk being treated as a second-class citizen; people think of you as someone about to die and don’t pay much attention to you. Some family members may think it’s not worth spending money on you since you will die anyway." Member of PLWHA association, Umutara

"I was raped by militia. I was in the Zone Turquoise in the south... My husband left when he learned I had HIV and he didn’t. He divorced me and left me with three children. Now I have problems paying for rent, school and food... As it is, I live thanks to my friends and neighbors. My six-year-old also has many health problems, and never seems to get better. She should be on ARVs, but I can’t get them for her, and she is allergic to antibiotics. We eat badly...My greatest worry is for my children. What will happen to them if I die? I am trying to get them sponsors abroad, so at least I will be able to die in peace." -Tharcissie, age 29, Kigali