I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to prevent non-Catholics from having abortions if they feel that abortions are morally acceptable. They can certainly only argue for what they believe to be right in the court of public opinion and try to persuade people.

The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

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

I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do - overpowered even by jobs I would never want or need to do.

Though many schizophrenics become curiously attached to their delusions, the fading of the nondelusional world puts them in loneliness beyond all reckoning, a fixed residence on a noxious private planet they can never leave, and where they can receive no visitors.

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

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.