it's a challenge daniel dobson is very familiar with.et and came out as gay after don't ask don't tell was repealed. also the son of a prominent pastor from a nondenominational church from grand rapids, michigan. he turned to faith and says he's blessed to have support from his friends and family. daniel, thank you for being here with us and sharing your story. i know it takes a lot of courage to do this. and tell me what the hardest part for you has been being both gay and christian. and how do you reconcile that conflict? >> well, thank you so much for having me on. as far as the most difficult part of reconciling the two, for me it was going through the bible and really going on a serious interpretive journey with the text. there are seven passages in the scripture that speak about what we know today as homosexuality. but for those passages by several different audiences, by five different writers over nearly a 2,000 year period. so to take them all as a single text and say that this is the way it is and really beat that message home,

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will dobson bristled at to the ground and made it clear -- wrestled it to the ground and made it clear to endure me their offices. "slate" makes the common law of psychiatrist. the women in my life. my mother, the late nancy dickerson, the work that she did. she did it smarter and in high heels. my wife, ann. the editors get to go home at night but she has to deal with the low-level magnets that these kinds of series produced where you have to give monologues and talk about the presidency. she did not lock me out. i appreciate that. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. dad had such a love affair with the newspaper business. up,member as a kid growing every morning he would start up with a stack of five newspapers. he would have the big national newspapers, the new york times india was finished with his local, hometown paper - "new york times" and would finish with his local, hometown paper. i asked him why. he said the local paper would always tell me if all those big federal programs ever made it back to my hometown. he read like that until his dying day. he loved picking up a newspape