I believe in the pursuit of happiness. Not its attainment, nor its final definition, but its pursuit. I believe in the journey, not the arrival; in conversation, not monologues; in multiple questions rather than any single answer. I believe in the struggle to remake ourselves and challenge each other in the spirit of eternal forgiveness, in the awareness that none of us knows for sure what happiness truly is, but each of us knows the imperative to keep searching. I believe in the possibility of surprising joy, of serenity through pain, of homecoming through exile.

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.