Extended Interviews

“I think people are looking for a way to make that move in a way that won’t hurt their election prospects. I think what the young Conservatives do, by talking about a more inclusive [...]

If you practice this, you’re a quack. There’s just no other word for it. You are doing damage; you are not upholding the oath to take care of people’s mental health.” [...]

I would hope we’ll look back in history at the idea of discriminating with government money against protected categories as one of those mystifying artifacts of the past in the not-too-distant [...]

We definitely came out in opposition to ENDA after we realized that there had been a huge sea change. The day after the court ruled on Hobby Lobby, we realized that this was an incredibly, [...]

Let’s never fail to notice how principles, human lives and religion itself have become nothing more than cannon fodder in the anti-Obama culture wars.. – Welton Gaddy How is it possible [...]

“You can believe in the full inspiration and authority of the bible, and still affirm committed, monogamous, lifelong same-sex relationships. That’s the basic message… The bible is [...]

“We want the same thing for those girls as we want for our own children. And so I began trying to personalize their story; I began to lift their names, and to say, Mary is precious, she’s [...]

“For the small-time gains, this is really selling our birthright for a bowl of porridge.” – Rabbi David Saperstein On May 5, 2014, the US Supreme Court issued its ruling in the [...]

We do believe that the majority of Americans actually reject hate, and that it’s just a matter of trying to amplify those voices rather than have the voices that are hateful speak louder. – [...]

Real prayer does not occur to impress or to instruct other people. – C. Welton Gaddy After the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Greece v. Galloway case found overtly sectarian prayer at [...]