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How to use the word ex-gay in a Sentence? Page #12

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I had hesitated on gay marriage, in part, because I thought civil unions would be sufficient, i was sensitive to the fact that -- for a lot of people -- that the word marriage is something that provokes very powerful traditions and religious beliefs.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To Malia and Sasha and their friends, discrimination in any form against anyone doesn't make sense. It doesn't dawn on them that friends who are gay or friends' parents who are same-sex couple should be treated any differently. That's powerful.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is no reason that you can't be perfectly fair to the gay community.

Ben Carson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think everybody at the time knew that it was simply homophobic legislation, that legislation was anti-gay legislation. It was playing off the fears of a lot of Americans.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It’s a shift from teaching fact to teaching attitudes, belief and behavior. does a child get a job because they can read well, write well and have competent math skills, or do they get a job for supporting gay marriage and gun control?

Alice Linehan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Does a child get a job because they can read well, write well and have competent math skills, or do they get a job for supporting gay marriage and gun control?

Alice Linehan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

There was a closeness I felt to gay people, we both suffered a lot for being different.

Yoko Ono

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

What I can say is that he met with me knowing that I am gay, and we had an extraordinary, very moving conversation.

Yayo Grassi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think, I very much believe now, that on the gun issue we are going to have our Confederate flag or our gay-marriage moment, when there is a cultural break.

Ladd Everitt

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What I can say is that he met with me knowing that I am gay and we had an extraordinary, very moving conversation.

Yayo Grassi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In America, everyone has rights, our gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender neighbors continue to fight for their rights.

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think Roy Moore is virulently anti-gay, the majority bent over backwards and went through legal gymnastics to not recognize the The Georgia adoption decree where this couple agreed the children would be raised jointly and parent them together.

Scott McCoy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The most charitable thing to say is it's a junior high gay joke, all I can say is try to picture the same joke, the same dugout with a man and woman and there's no joke. There's nothing funny about it.

Etan Bednarsh

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have the same activities, we live the same life and we love in the same way, the only thing that is different is that a small minority of people who are gay can get together to find security when they are aging.

Christer Fallman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's a race card, there's a disability card. There's even a gay card, because gay people are discriminated against, wrongfully so. The gay card is covered in glitter.

Comedian Nicole Arbour

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I can relate to it all, so many people live these situations. We know how many women go to jail to protect their man or take a bullet for their man. Or maybe you don't have a Cookie in your family, but you may have a gay person or someone who suffers from mental illness.

Jacqueline Jones

Found on CNN
8 years ago

So many people live these situations. We know how many women go to jail to protect their man or take a bullet for their man. Or maybe you don't have a Cookie in your family, but you may have a gay person or someone who suffers from mental illness.

Jacqueline Jones

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I’ve weighed the cost and I ’m prepared to go to jail, I sure am, this has never been a gay or lesbian issue for me. This is about upholding the word of God.

Kim Davis

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Everyone feels like an alien to someone else or even sometimes to oneself. Whether native, foreigner or exile, whether assimilated or singular, whether straight or gay, important is to find an access to the open public space, the 'space of appearance' and the gate to a citizenship of the world. (Township)

Erik Pevernagie

added by JP03
8 years ago

Serving gay people doesn't mean you approve of them, it means you're selling them a cake, or flowers, or a hammer. That's all.

James Esseks of the ACLU

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I wrote, 'I just spilled the beans to the New York Times. Is that OK?' and Amy wrote back, 'That you're gay? Totally! It's exciting!'.

Jennifer Lawrence

Found on CNN
8 years ago

So it’s not just unique to gay and bisexual young men.

Brian Mustanski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The change has been electric for young gay people, for the first time it has become something that isn't pushed under the covers.

Siona Cahill

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What the referendum did was gave permission to allow conversations to take place in places where it hadn't happened before: working class areas, rural areas. It allowed LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) issues to come out of the closet.

David Carroll

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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