«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.»
But all this is nothing more than a fatuous rationalization for a selfish way
of life if we do not have a commitment above all to
live faithfully, to deal with the
challenge of right relationship with God and neighbor.
I am convinced that these principles,
faithfully maintained, above all when dealing with human
life, from conception to natural death, with marriage - rooted in the exclusive and indissoluble gift
of self between one man and one woman - and freedom
of religion and education, are necessary conditions if we are to respond adequately to the decisive and urgent
challenges that history presents to each one
of you,»