If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.

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

I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.