“Being lectured about what constitutes a traditional marriage by a Mormon is a bit like being scolded for loitering by a crack whore.”

“They’re committing sin and that sin will keep them out of heaven. But you don’t hate the person. You hate the sin that they commit.”

“It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of liberalism, modernity and basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Rome has eagerly jumped with both feet into America’s culture wars and is working on a global scale to punish or purge ideological dissenters within the church.”

“You sort of have to come out over and over and over again. Years before, the tabloids had written articles about Brian and me, when Frasier first started on the air. We didn’t hide it, we didn’t deny it and nobody really paid that much attention to it, and it kind of disappeared. We’d go to the awards shows together. I might occasionally mention his name, might not, trying to walk the line between being honest and open and preserving our privacy. (M)aybe I could’ve been more specific and more public sooner, but it had more to do with kind of the way I was brought up. We’re just not a family that talked about private things in public. And I certainly didn’t go into the acting business to talk about my politics or my personal life or anything else like that. So it took me a while to be able to do that and depending on who you talk to, some people felt that I did it at the right time, some people felt like it was too late, some people felt I shouldn’t have done it at all.”