Dec 15, 2006   | COMMENTS     

“I’m still the Patti LaBelle who accepts gay people, while a lot of churches won’t accept gay people. My hair stylist is gay and wears an earring in his ear, and one of the churches [I performed at] said, ‘You have to take that earring out of your ear,’ and I said, ‘No, no.’ ... Everybody should be accepted ...”

Patti LaBelle, who just released her first gospel album and is performing in megachurches (Washington Post, Dec. 1.)

“Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products ... Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because ‘I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t homosexual.’ No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can’t remember a time when excess estrogen wasn’t influencing them.”

Jim Rutz in an op-ed piece (World Net Daily, Dec. 13)

“I have struggled with homosexuality since I was a 5-year-old boy ... I can’t tell you the number of nights I have cried myself to sleep, begging God to take this away.”

Rev.trong> Paul Barnes, former pastor of Denver’s Grace Chapel, in a resignation statement to his congregation Sunday (Denver Post, Dec. 11)

“He’s a fag. He tried to dap me up before the game. He’s soft though. I don’t pay attention to him.”

Joey Porter of the Pittsburgh Steelers on Kellen Winslow Jr. of the Cleveland Browns after last week’s Steelers/Browns game (Dec. 7)

“You know, that was probably a poor choice of words. So if I offended anybody, I apologize for that ... I don’t know ... I guess because how we used that word freely, me growing up using that word, I didn’t think anything of it. Like I said, I apologize to anyone I may have offended. I didn’t mean to offend anybody but Kellen Winslow. That’s pretty much that. I don’t want to put any more into it. ... Whatever I say is going to be on an extra level anyway. But like I said, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal when I said it anyway. So it’s over with it.”

Joey Porter’s apology (Dec. 12)

“We curse the spirit that would come to bring about same-sex marriage ... We ask you to just look over this place today, cause them to be shaken in their very heart in uprightness, Lord, to do that is right before you.”

Rev. trong>Vincent Fields, in an invocation he was invited to deliver before a New Jersey Senate session (Star Ledger, Dec. 11)

“Why is it necessary for them to wipe out my existence in order for them to have their success? It’s scary that they can be so cruel. I know it’s business, but why do they have to go to this extreme? I’m a human being. I need to work too. Why do I have to die to make them a winner?”

Jennifer Holliday, who starred in gay favorite “Dreamgirls” on Broadway and says she wasn’t invited to the premiere of the new film version (Los Angeles Times, Dec. 13)

“Honey, baby, they drool at my wardrobe.”

Phyllis Diller’s answer to a question about the comedienne being the envy of drag queens (TV Guide, Dec. 5)