The truly revolutionary promise of our nation’s founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H.
How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they’re somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?
the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.
I didn’t want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.
I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It’s still better than high school.
The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.
I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that’s worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they’ll be joining a life that’s already really good.
Straight couples don’t have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn’t compulsory and its absence doesn’t invalidate a marriage.
The cultural expectation should be if there’s infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
My dad was a homicide cop in the gay neighborhood in the city when gay neighborhoods were desperate, depressing, sad places run by the mob. The only gay people he’d met when I came out to him were corpses.
One man’s blasphemy doesn’t override other people’s free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.