“The last question was asked for the first time, half in jest, on May 21, 2061, at a time when humanity first stepped into the light.”
“Are we more likely to encourage helping behavior by highlighting stories where people act heroically or where they fail to do so?”
“But what if the woman is smarter than the man? Wouldn’t God want the one that He made smarter to be in charge?”
“It’s just a reflexive way of expressing either conscious or subconscious outrage that someone who isn’t white, straight and/or male is being given the spotlight.”
“I find it hard to understand why people would live life with such constant resentment of others and sense of competition with the world; I am only sure that it’s worth significant effort to avoid them.”
“Once upon a time, after the glaciers receded and men spread out among all the fresh green valleys of the world, freedom loving people of the North founded an enchanted Kingdom which can be still be found on any map of the world, where the Skagergatt meets the Kattergat.”
“We neither condone nor tolerate in our name imprisonment, persecution or any violence to any group or individual no matter their faith or sexual orientation.”
“I believe with every cell in my body that if Jesus were here in the flesh today, he would reach out to love and appreciate and enfold people who are LGBT — without condition.”
“From 1905 until 1977, epileptics were forbidden to marry in Minnesota.”
“Public acceptance of same-sex marriage can serve as a timely reminder to conservative religious leaders that their traditions have always adapted to changing social norms.”
“Quite literally, the opposition to gay marriage is dying. It’s old people.”
“Ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.”
“The biggest difference was that instead of writing for millions of readers, Wheatley was writing for just one.”
“This is all the time I will get in this universe, and I’m going to spend it how I see fit, and this does not generally include writing for free for people who are not me.”
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