“I'm trying to make the case that the church can indeed, from within its own resources, move out of a false, and often a hateful, characterization of and set of attitudes toward gay and lesbian people.” PeopleTryingMovingChurchAttitudeCasesGayResourcesHatefulCharacterization Author:James Alison
“The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.” KnowsHumansStrongChurchSilenceCrazyInfluenceConditionsPositionGayDrivenLoudNonsenseMinoritiesHuman ConditionSuspicionHatefulBeing GayDrive Me Crazy Author:James Alison
“My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.” HumansHappensUsedHumanityBeliefLeftMy OwnConditionsGayUsed To BeAppropriateMinoritiesHuman ConditionDefectsAnalogiesBeing Gay Author:James Alison
“Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that I can put right," and it was good, spiritually fruitful, to discover that the question "What went wrong in where I came from?" is actually not a useful one.” NeedsI CanMotivationCausesGoneGayBeing Gay Author:James Alison
