The experience of being depressed and emerging from depression made me understand the idea of a soul. I felt that the language in which one could best acknowledge that drew from faith.

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 opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew up thinking that it would make me marginal, prevent me from having children, and quite possibly prevent me from having a meaningful long relationship. It seemed that this condition would leave me with a vastly reduced life.

I don't believe that there is anyone of faith whose faith would not be strengthened by those experiences of family.