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" I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing. "

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" Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs. "

" I get letters every year from women who think Valentine's Day is an empty exercise, but are ironically pretty exercised when their boyfriends neglect or forget it. "

" A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. "

" The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. "

" 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. "

" Like it or not children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents all over America - as many as 10 million children. And it does nothing to make their lives more stable and secure to attack their families, to attack their parents to prevent us from marrying each other. "

" School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender. "

" Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense. "

" One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. "

" 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. "

" Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it. "

" Mother's Day is a torment if your mother is dead. Valentine's Day is a torment if you don't got one. And at some point in our lives, we will be tormented by Valentine's Day even if we're relatively lucky in love. "

" But it doesn't matter what you're doing, it matters how you're doing it. "

" When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better. "

" Most Americans don't care about gay marriage. "

" The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. I couldn't go home and open up to my parents. "

" I don't write about my life in my column. "

" How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made? "

" You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied. "