Lesbians, gays, everyone else and the promise of transformation

Here we are again at the community round table discussing the issue of whether or not to recognize homosexuals as fully human, as whole and legitimate children of a divine Creator. So powerful is this issue, it threatens to split the worldwide Anglican Communion in half. So powerful is this issue, it continues to divide families, and at the same time, not surprisingly, transform families into more richly compassionate, deeply loving and understanding human beings.

It is my experience of this transformation within my own family that has deepened my belief in the radical creativity and love of the Divine. It is this experience of transformation that has affirmed my belief in the existence of gays and lesbians, of bisexuals and transgender human beings as perhaps the most telling evidence of the creative and complex nature of the Divine.

Lesbians and transgender folk and bisexuals and gay men are here to challenge what is simple, what is perceived as black and white. We are here to challenge human structures when they become rigid and lose sight of the multiple and diverse nature of everything that breathes and crawls upon this planet. We are not here to fit into the status quo but to shake it loose from its comfortable stagnancy. Read more