Top Highlights

• When I cannot feel God’s love for me in my struggle, to have a friend grab my shoulder and say, ‘I love you, and I’m in this with you for the long haul’ is, in some ways, an incarnation of God’s love I would otherwise have trouble resting in.”
• My homosexuality is a part of my makeup, a facet of my personality. One day, I believe, whether in this life or in the resurrection, it will fade away. But my identity as a Christian—someone incorporated into Christ’s body by his Spirit—will remain.
• There was never an option—“Do you want to be gay?” “Yes, I do, please.” It was a gradual coming to terms, not a conscious resolution.
• But in my reading, I also discovered that by far the majority of Christians—on the basis of their reading of several key passages from the Bible, together with the weight of Christian tradition, Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant—agreed that homosexual practice was sinful.
• I tried to swallow the lump in my throat, realizing those words were for me. Ignoring is not the path to redeeming.