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Summary: A Lesson for All Christians
Review: Morrison has written a loving, compassionate, yet unequivocal portrait of "gays", and shows how wrong many Christians are in their approaches to same-sex attracted people. His recommendations on how to deal with youth who question their sexual identities are particularly important for parents. I am sorry that Morrison will (inevitably) experience attacks from extremists on both sides of this issue. Truth is harsh as well as holy, and courage is required to seek and accept it. Thank you, David, for expressing Paul's "more excellent way" in this wonderful book.
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Summary: An honest account, although not helpful for most gay men
Review: Morrison should be be given credit for creating a painfully honest account of his experience of ultimately rejecting his homosexual nature. It feels like a painful experience, but I wish him happiness. However, I think the book provides little more than a rehash of standard Catholic doctrine on homosexuality, and false hope for gay men who are trying to reconcile Christian beliefs with their homosexuality.One positive aspect of the book was to recognize and celebrate the inherent goodness in the love of two men for each other. But he arbitrarily draws the line when this love is expressed sexually, which is something which comes naturally and joyfully and intensely between gay men. He is unable to explain why the natural, sexual expression of this love is disordered. All that he can offer is a revealing discussion about his own experience of a letdown after sex. This plays directly into the Catholic doctrine that good sex is EXCLUSIVELY procreative, and that sex that is not procreative cannot be good -- a circular black-and-white definition that is not explained and begs to be accepted or rejected. While Morrison states that homosexuals do not need to change their orientation, he offers a false hope in his personal anecdotes that gay men may start to experience sexual feelings for the opposite sex if they refrain from the gay lifestyle. He repeats all the negative stereotypes of homosexuals, but fails to see the connection between pathological behaviors of some gay men and the lifelong oppression or non-acceptance of homosexuals by society. On the whole, it is a much-needed perspective, but should be read as a particular person's experience that lacks broader, socially useful conclusions.
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Summary: "He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother"
Review: This book attempts to sugar over harsh Vatican pronouncements about gays and lesbians with glib and disingenuous language. Would-be readers are best off consulting the original documents, salted as they are with such disparaging phrases as "intrinsically disordered", and "objectively evil". The author's account of his anti-gay epiphany while reading the anti-nazi German Protestant pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer has an incredible ring to it. Bonhoeffer courageously fought Nazi anti-Semitism from the beginning. (The record of the Catholic Church in this matter is mixed, to put it charitably.) Nor did he urge Jews to submit to ill treatment with resignation and quietude. By contrast, the book recycles boilerplate from Rome, to the effect that discrimination and violence against gays and lesbians would not arise if only they would obligingly stay closeted. It is cheap grace to pander to base prejudice this way, and worse to do so in a tone of chirpy sanctimony. In sum, this book caters to conservative nostalgia for the era of the closet. It is difficult to see it as being of any value to a gay man or lesbian not utterly abject.
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Summary: Rendering the Gospel into "Bad News"
Review: This book is just another attempt to render a vibrant, embracing faith into a closed, backward ideology. It does a disservice to the affirming message of Christ, to Gay Christians and those who love them. One might as well argue that the world is flat (Which is the "literal" interpretation of the Old testament cosmology) as claim that one can change their natural, god-given sexual orientation be it towards members of the same gender or not. My definition of morality involves compassion, justice, and truth. By these standards this book is immoral.
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Summary: Meaningful, objective, profound
Review: This book was recommended to me by a married friend who believed it was essential for both married and unwed couples regardless of sexual orientation. I am a Protestant Christian and appreciated David's God given ability to speak the truth in love. One may not agree with everything written in this book, nonetheless, the book presents a witness to human need for and journey to find true authentic intimacy with others and God. Best of all, David does not vilify or demonize the opposing sides to the issues surrounding same-sex attraction.
David writes from a Roman Catholic perspective which I am not very familiar with. Yet for me this perspective did not take away from the value of this text. After completing this book (which was borrowed from a library)I immediately bought four copies to share with clergy and other friends. I praise God for David and all who have the courage to speak lovingly and truthfully in difficult issues.
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Summary: An Outstanding Book on the Subject
Review: This is a good book. Most books dealing with Christianity and homosexuality tend to fall into two groups: ones that try to harmonize the two and others that push re-orientation. This book steers a middle course: it doesn't try to justify gay sex biblically, and it doesn't take the position that inside every homosexual is a heterosexual yearning to burst out. A gay Christian doesn't have to choose between Exodus and the Metropolitan Community Church, but it is a rare treatment of the subject that ackowledges that. This volume is written from a Catholic perspective, which is likely of more interest to Catholics, but is not completely lost on others (like me). I didn't focus too much on the specific catechism references, and skimmed quickly over the chapter on sacrements. The point is that it's not something you have to be a Catholic to be able to read. The Catholic leadership appears to have a lot better attitude about gays in the church than those in some Protestant denominations. The "Always Our Children" statement, given in an appendix, is very sensitive and touching, without being compromising. Much of the book is autobiographical in nature. However, it provides information and advice that will be of use to anyone who's gay but who looks at the Bible and realizes that gay sex is sinful (no matter how reluctant that realization may be). It also has a lot of information that is beneficial for non-gays.
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Summary: An Outstanding Book on the Subject
Review: What an unfortunate book for those who may be struggling with issues of self-identity. To propogate that a person should deny how God created him or her is appaling and blasphemous. I would not recommend this book to anybody that would prefer to be on a road of true understanding and self-awareness, as opposed to the ignorance and hate that this book supports.
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Summary: A Very Unfortunate and Destructive Book
Review: What an unfortunate book for those who may be struggling with issues of self-identity. To propogate that a person should deny how God created him or her is appaling and blasphemous. I would not recommend this book to anybody that would prefer to be on a road of true understanding and self-awareness, as opposed to the ignorance and hate that this book supports.
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