If there is any one message the Bible delivers, it is the message that God loves outcasts and that Jesus was born into the world an outcast to rescue and renew outcasts from religion gone bad. He was born poor and died poor, yet the legacy of love he left us, the legacy of inclusion and acceptance and understanding, will endure forever.

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

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

I am gay. I am proud. And God loves me without reservation.

Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry.

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.

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.