“It deals with intimacy, which is far more shocking than sex.”

“If you have a cute young kid that was thinking, ‘I wonder if I’m gay or not’ and they see that movie [Brokeback Mountain] and try it: good.”

“In the [American Family Association’s] first very extensive e-mail attacking our show [‘The Book of Daniel’], they named me, Jack Kenny, the show’s creator, as a ‘practicing homosexual.’ They played on that fact and the fact that there was a gay character in the show to say that I had no business writing about Jesus or Christianity. … Where was my community when I was being gay-bashed, quite openly in a very public forum? Where were the protests? Where were the articles in the gay press? … It’s too late for me or ‘The Book of Daniel’ [but the] next time you hear someone being bashed, don’t sit there and take it.”

“I’m not out, so when they asked me [to be on the panel], my first response was, how did you get my name? My friends said, ‘This is the year to be gay, with Brokeback Mountain and all. If you were ever going to do it, now is the time.’ The secret is out. If you invite me back next year, I’ll be able to tell you if I was discriminated against.”