Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.

There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.