Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.