It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Philip Galanes has fashioned a novel both bleak and funny about a young man's struggle to sort out his troubled love: the too-strong love for his mother, the too-weak love for his suicidal father, and the all-consuming love of anonymous sexual encounters. Pointed and acute, this story tells of the narrator's many betrayals of others and their many betrayals of him. It exists in an uncomfortable moral space where the humor of terrible things sometimes outweighs, but never obscures, their poignancy.

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

With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.

Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.