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So there's all this wanking on about this gay rights meme going around, I'm not sure what the fuss is about (retarded as usual), I get that kind of shit all the time of Yahoo, and I just ignore it.
Anyway, in that vein of thought, here are some of my favourtie gay rights quotes:

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss

If time and space are curved, where do all of the straight people come from? ~Author Unknown

No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. ~Rita Mae Brown, speech, 28 August 1982

When it comes to exploring the sea of love, I prefer buoys. ~ Andrew G. Dehel

If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: "Hello. Can't work today, still queer." ~Robin Tyler

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share. ~Rita Mae Brown

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. ~Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ~Susan B. Anthony on Selective Bible Quoting

"Don't let the people who live on fear and hate govern how you live."--Melissa Etheridge

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I love those, espcially the Robin Tyler quote. I don't get the meme things either.

Interesting quotes, but a lot of them seem to be based on an assumption of love.

What happens when someone doesn't believe in love?

The worst thing about this meme/chainletter/whatever-thing is, that it shows that something is quite wrong with our society (hah, as if we didn't know). If a thing that should be quite natural and a matter of course is discussed so fiercely, there is /always/ something wrong. No sane person would admit to be against (for instance) women's rights, either. You wouldn't need to post some five lines written by anyone else there to prove that women's rights are something you firmly believe in. People would be surprised (at least) to see you saying something against it.
I tend to ignore these chainletters anyway, beacause I have no idea what people who so busily try to talk a guilty conscience into you to make you pass their mails on without gaining anything (at first sight) get out of all this. There must be any gain, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Things like that wake my suspicion.