Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not (and whether we believe in God or not). So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.