“From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.”

“From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.”

“He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse him of having created an ugly world.”

“I am the flail of god. Had you not created great sins, god would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”

“All the rainbow banners were still there; the storm [Katrina] had left them intact. Interesting that the gay and bawdy sections of town were the parts least damaged, since some of the so-called religious people were claiming this to be God's punishment for our sinful ways. Perhaps they believed in a god of poor planning.”

“Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. From my point of view, I would ban religion completely. Organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into really hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.”