You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.