In my lowest moments, when I genuinely longed for death, I knew that Jesus would walk with me through that valley as well.

Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for the nation has become an obsession to reshape it in their own image.

Creating fear and loathing of gay and lesbian Americans has proven, year after year, to be the most effective say for Dobson and the other fundamentalist Christian leaders to raise millions of dollars and recruit millions of volunteers to support their long-range campaign to take back America.

If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.

My commitment to the Bible [is my] source of progressive values.

Holy Terror: Lies the Christian Right Tells Us to Deny Gay Equality.

I am convinced that Christian fundamentalism is a far greater threat to this country than Muslim terrorists could ever be.