What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.