{"quotes":[{"text":"Today's 'religious freedom' policies should not be seen as a problem limited to LGBT people but as a co-optation of religion that affects us all.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biased","biases","bigot","bigotry","bigots","co-optation","co-opting","discrimination","discrimination","first-amendment","first-amendment-defense-act","freedom-of-religion","gay-rights","government","government","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","lgbtqia","politics","politics-of-the-united-states","politics","prejudice","religion","religious-freedom"],"id":1033,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"God stipulates in the Bible that Jesus Followers are to love and serve everyone regardless of their faith or lack of it. But, this does not require us to honour and respect their Biblically-heinous cultural practises like multiculturalism does!","author":"Gary Patton","tags":["apostacy-laws","buddhism","hate","hinduism","homophobia","hounour-killing","islam","jesus","jesus-following","jihad","misogyny"],"id":1723,"author_id":"Gary+Patton"},{"text":"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.","author":"Audre Lorde","tags":["change","civil-rights","discrimination","equality","fear","homophobia","political","prejudice","racism"],"id":5155,"author_id":"Audre+Lorde"},{"text":"Those with unearned privileges often spin things as 'political correctness' to further silence those they wish to oppress.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["biased","biased-opinion","biases","gay-rights","hate","hatred","homophobia","homophobic","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","oppression","oppression","political-correct","political-correctness","political-spins","politically-correct","politically-correct-culture","politically-incorrect","power","privilege","privileges","propaganda","propaganda","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","racist","silence","silence","silencing","silencing-dissent","silencing-others","spin","spinning","unearned-blessings"],"id":12055,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"You could move.' ---'Dear Abby' responds to a reader who complained that a gay couple was moving in across the street and wanted to know what he could do to improve the quality of the neighborhood.","author":"Abigail Van Buren","tags":["dear-abby","gay","homophobia"],"id":17774,"author_id":"Abigail+Van+Buren"},{"text":"Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed doors, there simply isn't an elegant way of asking someone of your gender to hang out for the first time.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["america","friendship","homophobia","sodomy"],"id":22006,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"['non-white' gay men] are run over at the intersection of racism and homophobia.","author":"Eric C. Wat","tags":["homophobia","lgbt","racism"],"id":37071,"author_id":"Eric+C.+Wat"},{"text":"If someone called me fat, that affects me way more than someone calling me a f----t. I think just because I've accepted that, if someone calls me a f----t, it's like, I am gay and I'm proud to be gay so there's no issues there. If something calls you fat, that's something I want to change.","author":"Sam Smith","tags":["hate","homophobia","identity","lgbt"],"id":67628,"author_id":"Sam+Smith"},{"text":"If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bigotry","discrimination","first-amendment","free-speech","freedom-of-speech","hate","homophobia","racism","white-privilege"],"id":69337,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Saying something is 'politically correct' is often a way of dismissing the voices of the oppressed.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["biased","biased-opinion","biases","dismissal","ethnocentricity","ethnocentrism","homophobia","lgbt","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","marginalization","oppressed","oppression","oppression","political-correctness","politically-correct","politically-correct-culture","politically-incorrect","prejudice","prejudices","racism","racism-and-culture","racism-in-america","racism","racism","silencing","silencing-dissent"],"id":84322,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":47,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}