It wasn't a secret that I was gay. I'd come out to my parents during my junior year of high school, on the day that I also wrecked the family car.

I didnt know that President Bush would endorse a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.

I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado.

Having loving and supporting parents didn't make me feel any better about the possibility of seeing my personal life splashed across newspapers and tabloids.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

For the record, I love my sister. But she is dead wrong on the marriage issue.

Early numbers are always wrong.