My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he'd met when I came out to him were corpses.

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

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

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.

Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love.

You can't have Rosie on The View and Elton John packing Mom and Pop in at Caesars Palace and gay people all over television, and then have these politicians run out there with a straight face and say that gay and lesbian relationships are a threat to the family. We are winning in the culture - which is why we'll ultimately win the political war.