If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

I now teach at American University and the University of Virginia

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

Obama is to the Tea Party as the moon is to werewolves.

I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years

Black reporters are as capable of racism as anyone else.