James Alison Quotes About Being Gay

• The silence of those in positions of influence in the church who know, or have a strong suspicion, that being gay is a nonpathological minority variant in the human condition drives me crazy, far crazier than I am driven by any loud-mouthed purveyor of hateful nonsense.

  James Alison

  Strong, Crazy, Gay

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• My own belief is that being gay is a regularly occurring nonpathological minority variant in the human condition, and that an appropriate analogy is left-handedness, which also, as it happens, used to be regarded as some sort of defect in a normatively right-handed humanity.

  James Alison

  Gay, Humanity, Minorities

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• Part of my motivation in the search for a cause of being gay was the need to find "something that has gone wrong that I can put right," and it was good, spiritually fruitful, to discover that the question "What went wrong in where I came from?" is actually not a useful one.

  James Alison

  Motivation, Gay, Needs

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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