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Solomon finds comfort in the idea that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. He notes that people who are different often face families that don’t understand them. He also shares his own anxiety about being a father and how meeting resilient parents eased his worries.

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I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way…

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Depressed people cannot lead a revolution because depressed people can barely manage to get out of bed and put on their shoes…

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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is…

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A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love…

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Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family.

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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

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A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.

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When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head…

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I think that people are most comfortable when the world is orderly. I think there's the sense that when you begin questioning…

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The worst mistake anyone can make is to perceive anyone else as lesser. The deeper you look into other souls - and…

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My risk tolerance is higher than some people's, but it's not nearly as high as some people's. I don't want to exaggerate…

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A large proportion of my best friends are a little bit crazy. ... I try to be cautious with my friends who…

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Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate;…

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I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay…

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When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there…

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I understand perfectly well why the Catholic Church preaches against abortion. But it shouldn't be the purpose of the Catholic Church to…

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While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they…

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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.…

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Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is…

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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or…

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There is a false moral imperative that seems to be all-around us that treatment of depression, the medications and so on, are…

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Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that…

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It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within…

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I am not a great believer in the idea that journalistic neutrality means you have to abandon the people you talk to.

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I did grow up in a household in which I felt that to be myself was to damage the people I loved.

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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

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Some autistic people may emerge from their condition, but nobody knows when and why.

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People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.

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I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had…

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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

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Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply…

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I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their…

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People still ask my husband and me which of us is the mom - which, as one lesbian friend pointed out to…

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When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only…

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We see people of kindness, compassion, and possibly even faith being told, "Because of a characteristic with which you were born, you…

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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't…

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One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting…

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I was overpowered by being in the world, by other people and their lives I couldn’t lead, their jobs I couldn’t do…

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If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they…

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Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

One the one hand, the simple fact that there are children and that I do have an effect on them has been one of…

I grew up feeling that to be gay was a tragedy. I didn't grow up thinking that it was morally wrong, but I grew…

We need to acknowledge that families come in multiple shapes and sizes, that love is not a finite asset, and that caregiving involves more…

I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that…