And if the best you can do is quote the Bible in defence of your prejudice, then have the humility to be consistent. The same book that exhorts against the abomination of one man lying with another also contains exhortations against the eating of pork and shell-fish and against menstruating women daring to come near holy places. It’s no good functionalistically claiming that kosher diet had its local, meteorological purposes now defunct, or that the prejudice against ovulation can be dispensed with as superstition, the Bible that you bash us with tells you that much of what you do is unclean: don’t pick and choose with a Revealed Text – or if you do, pick and choose the good bits, the bits that say things like ‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone’, or ‘Love thy neighbour as thyself’. Stephen Fry
What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?
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Francesca Lia Block
[Two respondents] minimized the assimilationist implications of the dominant account; Russ Silver rejects the idea entirely. I have no interest in being accepted. I consider this system corrupt, and I don't want to be accepted by it. We're in this together. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Faggots, junkies,...
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Vera Whisman
For life is too short to resign ourselves to reading poorly written books and sleeping with women we don't love.
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Anonymous
If there's one thing I know about women, it's that they have vaginas.
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J. Richard Singleton
Hell, yes, " Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it's going to feel like holding hands.
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David Levithan
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