"Looks like it's anal sex week."

Lou Novak, first vice president for the Rental Housing Association of Puget Sound, upon seeing an AIDS awareness group at the Washington State Capitol. Novak later resigned his position over the remark, which was heard by the group that included a 13-year-old girl and 16-year-old boy. (Associated Press, March 3)

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Oppression is oppression is oppression. Just because we're not the ones who are being oppressed now, do we not stand with those oppressed now? That is the biblical mandate. That's what Jesus is all about.

Rev. Kelvin Calloway, pastor of the Second AME Church in Los Angeles, said about the new breed of black religious leaders who are siding with Republicans on gay rights issues. (New York Times, March 6)

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