“Coming out involves varying degrees of difficulty that are affected by class, race, religion, and geography.”– Lance Loud Related Quotes “Wonder is the basis of worship.”– Thomas Carlyle “God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.”– Friedrich Nietzsche “First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.”– Huston Smith