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"The Church commends the law-makers for their prompt reaction to outlaw same-sex relationships in Nigeria and calls for the bill to be passed since the idea expressed in the bill is the moral position of Nigerians regarding human sexuality."
peter jasper (archbishop) akinola— (Communique on the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2006
— The 2006 Bill, as well as criminalising same-sex marriage, also proposed to criminalise "Registration of Gay Clubs, Societies and organizations" and "Publicity, procession and public show of same-sex amorous relationship through the electronic or print media physically, directly, indirectly or otherwise", on penalty of up to 5 years imprisonment.
Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.
g. e. m. anscombe— Contraception and Chastity (1975)
He that commends me to mine own content commends me to the thing I cannot get.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, Act I, scene 2, line 33.
He that commends me to mine own content commends me to the thing I cannot get.
— William Shakespeare, in Francesca Carrara, Volume 3, p.164
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, With his surcease, success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgement here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, in the first use of the word "assassination" in Macbeth (c. 1605)
This very remarkable man commends a most practical plan: You can do what you want If you don’t think you can’t So don’t think you can’t if you can.
— Charles Inge, Cleric. On Monsieur Coué (1928)
This even-handed justice commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act I, scene 7, line 9
We glory most in the fact, that Scripture so commends itself to the conscience, and experience so bears out the Bible, that the gospel can go the round of the world, and carry with it, in all its travel, its own mighty credentials.
henry melvill— P. 36. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
