"There is a difference between morality and murder. The fact that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, that, my friends, is the true perversion! For the standards that we set, should we look to next weekās headlines? Well, Iām tired of the lies of the Anita Bryants and the John Briggs. Iām tired of their myths. Iām tired of their distortions. Iām speaking out about it."
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Harvey Milk in his "That's What America Is" speech on 25 June 1978, as quoted by Liz Tracey, Milkās Gay Freedom Day Speech: Annotated, JSTOR, 13 June 2022
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