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

I've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.

I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the kingdom. God has taught us that about people of color, about women, and now I think God is teaching that about gay and lesbian folk. And I am humbled and privileged that I might be playing a very small part in that grand and wonderful plan of God's.

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

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

It seems to me, then, that vulnerability and and self-disclosure are at the heart of what we understand about the nature of God. And the reason I believe gay and lesbian people are spiritual people is that we too have participated in vulnerability and self-disclosure, especially in the process of coming-out. When someone shares with you who they really, really are, it is a special offering. To do so when it risks rejection is a profound, holy gift.

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