“Republicans want to make an issue of Nancy Pelosi in the congressional races this fall: Would you want a San Francisco woman to be Speaker of the House? Will the podium be repainted in lavender stripes with a disco ball overhead? Will she be borne into the chamber by male dancers with glistening torsos and wearing pink tutus? After all, in the unique worldview of old elephants, San Francisco is a code word for g-a-y, and after assembling a record of government lies, incompetence and disaster, the party in power hopes that the fear of g-a-y-s will pull it through in November.”

“The Pro-Life Alliance of Gays and Lesbians is outraged that the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force would join forces with pro-abortion organizations. … Not all members of the LGBT community are pro-choice and it is far past the time when the stereotype … some of the ‘leaders’ of our community attempt to force upon us is removed. No survey suggests that members of the LGBT community are any more pro-choice than the average American.”

“I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us. Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender.”