It seems particularly ironic that a church that at one stage, a long time ago, fought to redefine marriage should now be so opposed to these attempts to redefine marriage.

I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand

I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support people in crossing from the easier pleasure of momentary carnal satisfaction, into the more difficult pleasure of love and family and relationship.

Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.

Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.

I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.