I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

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.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.