Haggard's betrayal, his lies, his compulsions, his deceits are the excruciating function of this human dead end. What we have to do as Christians is open up this always-closing door, to find a way past the abstractions and neuroses of fundamentalism to a more honest and more human acceptance of gay people as God-like. Gay people, like all people, need love. We need family. And yet we are uniquely and cruelly denied these things. And no love and no family can be genuinely based on the deceit or self-hatred that are the alternatives.
--Andrew Sullivan
You Call it Geschwurbel, I Call it Baloney
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As we know, one man’s intellectual baloney — which is English for *geschwurbel
*—can be another man’s filet mignon. I have no idea how materialists
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