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I do not believe that the truth can ever be in conflict with God.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.

The New York Times had not become The New York Times overnight. It had to earn its reputation day-by-day.

Even if it's deep unhappiness, it's your unhappiness.

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

I think very few people are gay. I'm a two-percenter myself.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

When a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.

Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.

I'm not one of these people who thinks everybody's gay.

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.

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

No American should be forced to choose between their spouse and their country.

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.

The important things are not worth knowing because they are useful. They are worth knowing because they are true.

A mind is a wonderful thing to change.

[Bush Hating] undermines the good faith necessary for democratic discussion. Which is a large part of what people like Al Franken are all about.

I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.

I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

I enjoy being around people who disagree with me; and I enjoy being in non-political contexts and activities.

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

I'm gay. I always have been and I always will be, and I'm happy.

The day of reckoning is not just coming for Saddam Hussein. It's coming for the anti-war movement.

If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?

I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.

Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown.

Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.

I believe that there are moments in sex that are so awesome that they actually reflect God.

[T]he pied beauty of humanity should not be carved into acceptable and unacceptable based on things that simply make us who we are.

I'm openly gay because I'm a Catholic.

The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

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.

Unlike a variety of other relationships,friendship requires an acknowledgement by both parties that they are involved or it fails to exist.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

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.

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

There is no escaping this fight. It is civilization or Jihadism. We can and should debate tactics; but the sides are clear enough.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

My father has been a rock for me every since.

When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary.

When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.

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.

There is something about hearing your president affirm your humanity that you don't know what effect it has until you hear it.