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• One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.

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  Children, Taken, People

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• I have a very difficult time believing that there is some being who is going to invite me into heaven or not on the basis of whether I wear a yarmulke or whether I have been sprinkled with water while someone said something. Some of the ritual is very beautiful, but I find it difficult to believe that it really has to do with God. I believe that dogma comes from man.

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  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• I'm not studying everything that can go wrong. What I'm studying is how much love there can be, even when everything appears to be going wrong.

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  Study, Much Love

  "Can Your Child's Identity Shape Yours?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle.

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  Struggle, Ease, Impression

  "How Do Our Worst Moments Shape Us?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 01, 2014.

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• My parents deeply and truly loved each other, and if my mother hadn't died they would have been together forever. They were together for as much of forever as was given to them. They really loved my brother and me and were very good to us. It gave the model of how to have a happy marriage and family, but it also set the bar very high.

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  Mother, Brother, Parent

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• Oppression breeds the power to oppose it.

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  Oppression

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• People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

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  People, Want, Changed

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• Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

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  Depression, Grief, Bereavement

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• I got into my first serious relationship with a man when I was twenty-three. I had, before that, sort of a typical, sad history of relatively promiscuous sexual encounters with men I didn't know, because I felt that if I were involved with people I did know, other people would know that I was gay, and it was something that I needed to keep so secret.

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  Gay, Men, People

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• I went through elementary school being bullied and teased. I remember someone - I can't recall his name, but I can see his face - who decided on the school bus, when I was ten or eleven, to call me "Percy." That was somehow supposed to connect to the fact that I wasn't very athletic. I was, in fact, also not very coordinated. I was not very masculine, by the standards of ten-year-olds. I remember being on the school bus and everyone chanting, "Percy! Percy! Percy!" at me.

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  School, Years, Names

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• There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.

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  Believe, Sin, Homosexuality

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• Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.

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  Parenthood, Stranger, Catapults

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Every organization does good and bad things.

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  Organization, Doe, Good And Bad

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• I think what the Church should ideally do, and does appear to do in the context of straight relationships, is to support people in crossing from the easier pleasure of momentary carnal satisfaction, into the more difficult pleasure of love and family and relationship.

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  Thinking, People, Support

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• When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

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  Law, People, Resilience

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• I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things that I am not proud of.

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  Errors, Looks, Done

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• Religion is so focused on family. These days, for many people, being gay is also focused on family. The Mormon Church is especially focused on family, and I'd have hoped, therefore, that the Mormon Church would especially have celebrated how all of these people who might have been lonely and suicidal and childless are now able to lead this other life. I would have thought it would be a cause for immense celebration. Instead it has been, obviously, a cause of great concern to the Church and its leadership.

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  Lonely, Suicidal, Gay

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• If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.

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  Running, Gay, Church

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• Any community that remains an abstraction is an easy target for prejudice and cruelty, but any community that becomes fully humanized is much harder to treat in that way.

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  Community, Prejudice, Target

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• I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

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  Feet, Feelings, Lucky

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• That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

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  Suicide, Loss, Essence

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.

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  Pride, Giving, Feel Good

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• The way that Russian Orthodox services work generally, and certainly the way that this worked, is that it goes on for hours and hours, and people wander in and wander out, and people talk the whole way through. One of the American women said to the other, "This is so beautiful. I can actually imagine maybe even becoming Orthodox." She went on and on, and finally a Russian seated just in front of her turned and said, "You are not member of church because it is beautiful; you are member of church because it is the single truth of God!"

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  Beautiful, People, Church

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• Being gay is immutable.

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  Gay, Being Gay

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• Kids with Down syndrome are, by and large, quite affectionate and relatively guileless, and frequently, the attachments to them grow and deepen. And the meaning that parents find in it grows and deepens.

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  Kids, Attachment, Parent

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