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I love it. I like being around my friends.

I think society . . . has been confused over what compassion is. We're here to love and take care of these people and not kill them,

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

You've got to love their determination. I do think it points out something really unique about these parentsthey are really driven to do things so that their children can access all of the great things that every child in this country can access. Gay and lesbian parents are really dedicated to that and moved by that.