A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves.

If kids got raped at Denny's as often as they get raped at church it would be illegal to take your kids to Denny's.

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.

We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people. The same way we have learned to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about shellfish, about slavery, about dinner, about farming, about menstruation, about virginity, about masturbation.

I don't write about my life in my column.

I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.