Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate; and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.

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.

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

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.

Despair is part of love.