While this is a small study and didn't take homosexual partnerships into account, it's a great reminder of the power of human touch. (mindbodygreen.com)
«Perhaps one of the main challenges of living faithfully before God as a gay Christian is to believe, really believe, that God in Christ can make up for our sacrifice of homosexual partnership not simply with his own desire and yearning for us but with his desire and yearning mediated to us through the human faces and arms of those who are our fellow believers.» (rachelheldevans.com)
On the contrary, even Karl Barth, who uncompromisingly rejects homosexual partnerships as out of step with the Creator's intention, writes that such unions are often «redolent of sanctity» (Church Dogmatics III / 4, p. 166) because they are about the struggle to give and receive love. (firstthings.com)