I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do

Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.

The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.