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John and Mary seemed like the perfect Christian couple. They attended church and Bible study every week, were active in the church community, and supported one another in their faith. But after 12 years of marriage, John told Mary that he is not attracted to her, but rather is attracted to men; he longs for a meaningful, emotional connection with a man. He fantasizes about men all the time, ever since he was a little boy, but never acknowledged these feelings because he grew up in a conservative environment where the only acceptable way to deal with these emotions...
...homily exhorting Catholics to love everyone—short, tall, white, black, gay, and straight—because God loves everyone. While he did not address whether being gay is a sin, the priest’s homily conveys acceptance towards gays that is unfortunately absent from many Christian communities around the country...
...obviously can’t say that being an openly gay Christian will be easy for those whose faith prohibits them from acknowledging their sexuality. But I do know that there are openly gay Christians, such as Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes, and that same-sex marriage ceremonies are performed by Unitarian Universalist churches, some Quaker congregations, and by the Metropolitan Community Church. For gay Jews, some Reform and Reconstructionist Jewish synagogues perform same-sex marriages...
...Pence, a lawyer and former radio and television host, is chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives, but the group did not offer the plan because it?s split on how to handle immigration overhaul. Pence?s official biography calls him ?a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order...
...Those qualities animate the newly translated Purity of Blood. Alatriste is hired to help an aging father free his daughter, a nun, from the clutches of a well-connected priest who is using the convent as his private seraglio. The old man and his family have a secret: as Christian descendants of a converted Jew in anti-Semitic times, they lack "purity of blood" and soon become targets of the Inquisition. Alatriste too comes under suspicion, and the blood, pure and otherwise, begins to flow. Like the other Alatriste books, Purity of Blood bristles with adventure and swordplay...