Because Of An Adulterous Affair I Shall

To Be Able To Love And Live In Freedom Means To Be Able To Make Godly Decisions. To Make Godly Decisions We Have To Surrender Our Egos And All The Falsity And Shame That Goes With It.

I Realized That My Truest Passion Was For Helping People Change Through Faith In A Higher Power. That Meant, For Me, Belonging To The Church. Using My Abilities To Bring Christian Doctrine To A Postmodern World.

At Different Points In My Life, I Had Grappled With The Idea Of Going Into The Priesthood - In High School Or Law School. Where It Ends, I'm Not Quite Sure. Perhaps It Ends With Death, Grappling With One's Spirituality.

When I Came Out Publicly, Some Photo Editors Had A Field Day Searching For Pictures Of Me With A Limp Wrist Or Some Other Stereotypical Gay Signifier - As Though, After Decades In The Public Eye, They'd Suddenly Come Across A Trove Of Shots Where I Looked Like A Cher Impersonator.

Firefighters, Police Officers And State Troopers Place Themselves In Harm's Way Every Day, Every Week, Every Year.