Parenting is about being competent and responsible. It's not about gender, necessarily.

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.

To be gay is nothing to be proud of. It's in how you are gay that you have something to be proud of, considering the obstacles placed in your path if you are gay.

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.