Candace Chellew-Hodge

Spitzer repudiates the study that launched a thousand ex-gay conversions.

“What the feminist movement and the LGBT movement have become for religious communities is a test of hospitality. Are you really open to accepting and welcoming everyone? Is the personhood of the gay couple as welcome as the personhood of the straight couple? It’s not just simply what your political position is about the rights of these people, but are these people really people? And are they people with their full wisdom, their full experience, their full sense of who they are? Are they really, truly welcomed into the deepest realms of making community?”

Our homosexuality (or bisexuality or transgenderism) is, for them, simply a symptom of sin—something we can change, like underwear.