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

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.

I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.

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

I hope the Church will examine what is good and what is ill, and what good could be achieved by getting the suicidal, self-destructive, possibly carnal, or celibate to move toward this experience of love.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.