One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

Parenthood always involves recognizing your child as separate and different from you.

Your gender identity is who you are. Sexual identity is who you bounce that off of.

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

I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.

You need to take the traumas and make them part of who you've come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt.