I've chronicled the experience of the mother of a transgender child who got attacked by the Ku Klux Klan in Tennessee, and that of a transgender woman who was asked to deliver a sermon at her Montana church and got a standing ovation from her congregation. The idea that Christianity is a blanket term that encompasses both of those attitudes seems ludicrous to me.

My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

I hate the comparative idea that you have to love your spouse more than you love your parents.

The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

I really feel that the Church leaders have blood on their hands. I feel that there are gay Mormons who have committed suicide or whose lives have been destroyed because of the attitude of the Church.