And the ACLU has shown it is willing to even go one step further and fight to support a public school’s right to indoctrinate. Conservative parents have no choice but to make sure their kids...

Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really...

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

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

And as far as the imminent apocalypse is concerned, they’re on the same page as the Mullahs in Tehran . Just in case you were sleeping soundly at night.

Just as Muslim newspapers the world over continue to print disgusting cartoons about Jews and then riot when very mild cartoons about Islam are printed, Hayes has a clear double standard. Here’s hoping. Down with...

Commodity stocks are driven by manufacturing growth, which represents demand. Those stocks are reacting to commodities markets around the world.

I’m a writer by profession and it’s totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I write has increased exponentially, my daily interactions with the views of others have never been so...

The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn’t a profession, it’s a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you’re all set.

Homosexuality is like the weather. It just is.

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie...

[That, plus such scandals as the abuses in U.S. military prisons in Iraq, damages the] core … It will take time to restore that kind of reputation and, yes, honor.

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

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

I was very concerned I would kill this lady,

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

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for...

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

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

It is a Bush administration official on the moment when torture breaks a victim:The job of the interrogator is to safely help the terrorist do his duty to Allah, so he then feels liberated to...

I’m glad I’m not the only gay guy here–thanks Grover (or as I like to call him, ‘Mama Bear.’

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

If you think you’ll find intellectual stimulation, you’re thinking of another era. The conversations are invariably about money or property or schools. I’ve never been more bored by casual chat.

I won’t be running my posts past any editor before they appear. I will continue to write simply what I believe or think, however misguided I may be. I will continue to correct any errors...

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It’s the ones that become the friendships that last.

I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, … The best bet is that the president doesn’t actually know what’s happening there, is cocooned from reality, has...

Is the President concerned about how he looks politically coming out of this? Heck yes! The president has some serious exposure here. He appointed two different political hacks to run FEMA and then swept it...