"My father was a Catholic deacon, my mother was a lay minister and I
thought about becoming a priest. I was in church every Sunday for the
first 15 years of my life. Now I spend my Sundays on my bike, on my
snowboard or on my husband. I haven’t spent my post-Catholic decades in a
sulk, wishing the church would come around on the issue of
homosexuality so that I could start attending Mass again. I didn’t
abandon my faith. I saw through it. The conflict between my faith and my
sexuality set that process in motion, but the conclusions I reached at
the end of that process — there are no gods, religion is man-made, faith
can be a force for good or evil — improved my life. I’m grateful that
my sexuality prompted me to think critically about faith. Pushed out?
No. I walked out." -
Dan Savage, from his
New York Times book review of Jeff Chu's
Does Jesus Really Love Me?
Reposted from Joe
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