The Bible becomes a dead idol when we call the words between its covers inerrant, infallible, to be taken literally. This is not a dead book. It is alive. Open it carefully because the new truth that might come leaping out at you could change your life forever.

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

It's beginning to feel like there is no room in America for anyone who is not a fundamentalist Christian.

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

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.

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.

Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.