There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.

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

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.

Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.

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.

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.

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