They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

I think people do things all the time in the name of love that they shouldn't be doing - such is the nature of us.

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.