Q: What’s it like for you that Episcopal bishops from other states are now playing a more high-profile role in the same-sex marriage debate at the convention since California passed Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage?
A: I feel very strongly that the trajectory toward the recognition of the full civil rights for LGBT people, including marriage equality, is plain. We will achieve that in California and across the United States – and globally, I think. Yet it is painful to know that there are people who are suffering the lack of those rights in a state as populous as California, which has a history of being on the forefront on many, many categories.
I’d like to ask him if he’s going to take part in any more Gay Pride parades.
#1, why waste an interview with Stephen Hawking asking whether the sun is going to come up tomorrow? You want questions that reveal the unknown, not that confirm the obvious.
You DO make a good argument there!