I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.

Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.