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our vulnerabilities and weaknesses.
    —Xavier Lacroix, L’Amour du semblable, questions sur l’homosexualité (Love of the same: questions on homosexuality), 1995
    I admit that there must be some homosexuals in the National Front, but there are no queens. They are invited to go elsewhere.
    —Jean-Marie Le Pen, National Front Party, 1995
    Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.
    —“The Vocation to Chastity: Chastity and Homosexuality,” Catechism of the Catholic Church , 2357–59, 1997
    Some people are going to scream, but I am willing to say that you cannot be gay and happy.
    —Sébastien, Ne deviens pas gay tu finiras triste , 1998
    For homosexuals, Islam has prescribed the most severe punishments. After guilt has been established according to the dictates of sharia , the individual must be seized, be kept standing, and divided in two with a sword and either cut off his head, or split him completely in two. He (or she) will fall.… After his death, a pyre must be made, the body placed on it, fire set to it and burn it, or brought to the top of a mountain and thrown from a cliff. Then, the body parts must be assembled and burned. Or a hole must be dug, a fire started in it and he must be thrown in alive. We have no such punishments for other crimes.
    —Ayatollah Musava Ardelsili, Tehran, 1998
    Homosexuality is part of the first stages of human sexuality; it does not represent the final stage of sexuality, which, in the best of cases, progresses towards heterosexuality. Homosexuality is in no way a choice of one object among others, but a complex which indicates the failure of the internalization of the other.
    —Tony Anatrella, priest and psychoanalyst, Le Monde , October 10, 1998
    If you ask me if an avowed homosexual teacher can teach, my answer is no. It would be morally wrong that an avowed homosexual person or someone who, when all is said and done, considers pedophilia to be a form of love be allowed to teach. They should be excluded from public service.
    —Gianfranco Fini, leader of Italy’s National Alliance political movement, 1998
    I cannot be favorable to those that I call the gravediggers of humanity, those who do not guarantee the future, homosexuals.
    —François Abadie, senator, France’s Radical Left Party, Nouvel observateur , June 2000
    It is not good that a man goes with another man, or that a woman goes with another woman. It goes against African tradition and the teachings of the Bible.
    —Daniel arap Moi, president of Kenya, 2000
    My words are like a dagger with a jagged edge / That’ll stab you in the head / Whether you’re a fag or a lez / Or the homosex, hermaph, or a trans-a-vest / Pants or dress—hate fags? The answer’s yes.
    —Eminem, “Criminal,” The Marshall Mathers LP , 2000
    Lesbians use the orifice of life in their lovemaking. However, homosexuals use the orifice of excrement.
    —Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar, La Tribune de Madagascar , March 27, 2001
    The youth must fight against the temptation of violence, immorality, sins against nature, alcoholism and the hell of drugs. The fact that evil risks invading our world and that the abnormal tends to be considered normal must worry us all.
    —Monsignor Teoctist, patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, 2001
    On the battle in France over PaCS (the legislative proposal to legalize civil unions, including between same-sex couples):
    The reason for which homosexual couples do not have access to marriage is that it is the institution that etches gender differences into the symbolic order , by linking couple and descent.
    —Irène Théry, Notes de la Fondation Saint-Simon