But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I ….

No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation..

As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many lib….

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and co….

We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will ….

Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life..

I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my p….

I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man..

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political l….

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good..

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives..

I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a compl….

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry..

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection..

When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier….

We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embr….

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked….

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the fa….

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift..

At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quit….

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself..