Your past is important but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.
Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent.
Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.
One of the most startling discoveries of my life was the realization that the Jesus that I love, the Jesus who died for me on Calvary, that Jesus, is waiting, mystically and wonderfully, in every person I meet. I find Jesus everywhere.
I'm not convinced that Jesus only lives in Christians.
When in fact we live in a society that makes life hell for gays and lesbians, this community has got to stand up and say, ‘We’re on your side as you struggle for dignity,’ and, ‘Yes, we will defy anybody who says otherwise, even if we have to go to Disneyland to prove it.’