Fear dominates the conversation about sexual orientation; replace it with love.
People don’t chose at a young age to experience a combination of fear, isolation, confusion and rejection; in this way we can tell that same sex attraction is not simply a choice.
There is no sexual orientation that does away with the need for morality.
What is needed between the gay and straight community is more listening and more love.
If you don’t know anyone who is gay, then what does that say about you?
When a person has a friend or family member who is gay, they have an opportunity to begin to understand.
“Weep with those who weep” was written to the church to help it know how to relate to the gay community.
Seek first to understand, a gay and straight mandate for healthy relationships.
The church should be known more for what it is for than what it is against.
Militancy polarizes.
“God is love” is not a statement about sexual orientation.
Why has the church judged sexual sin more harshly than pride? Because it is afraid of its own desires.
It is okay for us to disagree about morality; by this discussion we may have a chance to discover what we really believe.
God invented morality; not the church.
When it comes to morality, each person’s essential struggle is with one other point of view — God’s.
What is missing from most discussions about sexual orientation is the awareness of pain, on all sides.
