I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.
Look, you're either loved or hated. Which is a good thing, as Bette Davis used to say.
In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you. ' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.
I knew the full 'Judy Garland Carnegie Hall' double album set at age 2. And then my mother wondered why I was gay. I was like, 'Are you nuts? You would make me get on the table to sing Judy Garland songs and you're upset?
Who do you think I am, Pete Rose? I don't bet. I come from a long line of compulsive gamblers. Gambling scares me.
I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.
I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.
The journey is the thing.
Our God is a God of love. He waits with open arms, and the unfolding of His merciful plan of salvation is not only therefore the mark of divine power but also the mark of God's relentless, redeeming love. It is a point well worth pondering because, among other reasons, it will help us to understand better why God, through the prophets, denounces sin and corruption in such scalding terms. He loves all of us, His spirit sons and daughters, but hates our vices. His denunciation of those vices may, if we are not careful, seem to obscure the enormous and perfect love He has for us.
I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.
But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.