— Denver Nuggets basketball player Kenneth Faried in a video with his two mothers for Colorado LGBT advocacy organization Colorado One (Youtube.com, Jan. 25)
“The policy change under discussion would allow the religious, civic or educational organizations that oversee and deliver scouting to determine how to address this issue. …. Under this proposed policy, the BSA would not require any chartered organization to act in ways inconsistent with that organization’s mission, principles or religious beliefs.”
— Boy Scouts of American spokesman Deron Smith on reports that the organization is considering lifting its ban on gay members (Time, Jan. 28)
“This is just unbelievable to me. This is a suicide mission on the part of the Boy Scouts. They’re done. They’re toast. They’re history. We know that homosexuals offend against children at roughly 10 times the rate that heterosexuals offend against young children. There is a risk there — it’s just insanity that they are relaxing the standard.”
— Bryan Fischer, director of Issues Analysis for the American Family Association, in a video posted to the AFA website (Salon.com, Jan. 29)
“He told me, if you ever doubt how I feel about you, you need to remember this moment. You never really know with men. Men aren’t prone to expressing their feelings for you. It floored me.”
— Neon Douglass (pictured above) on the marriage proposal his fiance, Sean Lanoue, painted on the Krog Street tunnel (GA Voice, Jan. 29)