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“Mahatma Gandhi on Homosexuality”
Two gay Englishmen came to Gandhi in the 1930s and asked him what he thought of their relationship.
The Mahatma asked some questions and for a short time fell silent.
Then he said, “The greatest gift God gives us is another person to love.”
Placing the hands of each man in the other’s, he quietly and with a smile asked, “Who are we to question God’s choice?”
“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
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
~Ernest Gaines
