I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

Kids are like heroin, a little heroin addiction. When it’s bad, you’ve never been so miserable, but when it’s good you’ve never been so high.

the truth is often a mixed message

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

TV commercials make parenting look like there are going to be good days and bad days - like, it'll be this gentle wave, like you'll have a blissed-out, really wonderful day or two, and then, you know, then you'll have an issue. And what parenting is, is kind of earthquake.