I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic..

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy..

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it..

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as a….

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness..

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting..

[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about..

Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital outlets between t….

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore..

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves..

I think if someone is writing continuously for 10 years and has not changed their mind about something - there's something wrong with them. They're n….

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago..

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendsh….

Bush has legitimized a huge expansion of the welfare state, liberalizing immigration, and using force for democratization abroad. All the next Democr….

I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other p….

I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq. The best bet is that the president doesn't actually know w….

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies..

That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made ….

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer..

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that dis….

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself..