Gene Robinson — American Clergyman born on May 29, 1947,

Vicky Gene Robinson is an American retired bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as diocesan bishop in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary to the VIII Bishop of New Hampshire... (wikipedia)

When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.