I don't think that CBS has chosen sides in the culture war by doing this. I think they all recognize gay people as part of a diverse newsroom.

People are so excited that there is a high-quality gay newscast. Our very existence gives validity to the idea of gay news.

If we don't do our jobs right, we could be damaging the CBS News brand. We want to make sure that it's as good as anything else CBS News would put out there.

We don't want to be the 700 Club of gay news. The audience wants us to be credible. There are plenty of other outlets out there doing advocacy coverage.

The culture war is between the winners and those who think they're losers who want to become winners. The losers think the only way they can become winners is by banding together all the losers and then empowering a leader of the losers to make things right for them.

As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It's a legitimate mode of cultural transmission....