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A mind is a wonderful thing to change.
I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.
My father has been a rock for me every since.
Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.
Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.
If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.
I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.
I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.
If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.
Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.
I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.
Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.
The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold.
No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.
Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.
...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.
When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.
I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.
The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.
I think a lot of people are afraid the truth is in conflict with God. And are unable to let go and let the truth of the world.
There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.
What's great about it is that you see, the great struggle for gay people is that the politics is just not going to work for us.
I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.
There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.
Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.