427 Quotes by Christina Engela

Rejecting your gay or transgender child won’t make them straight. It will only mean you will lose them.

I wonder why bigots think their conservative and puritanical version of ‘God’ made the male body with a prostate gland that also co-incidentally ‘just happens’ to be a ‘g-spot’?

Regardless of what language it is said in, “I love you” stays beautiful, and two hearts beating together make the same sound. It is the language of Love.

How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to ‘religious persecution’? Does the survival of a religion depend on the vilification and desecration of the humanity of others?

Those who deny any group of people human rights are really denying the humanity of that group – and their own.

It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an ‘attack’ on their ‘faith’.

I fail to see how somebody can hate me for ‘what I do’ and what I am without actually hating me as a person. That makes about as much sense as throwing the baby out with the bathwater – or gay man out the church door with his homosexuality.

If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred.

As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as ‘progress’, and assert with pride and conviction that they are ‘Christians’ and that they are doing ‘God’s will’.