D-O-N-E! DONE!

I just submitted my final paper for my last class of my master's degree. What a feeling. If I wasn't so tired and I didn't have to get up at 6:30 tomorrow morning I'd go out for a few, but I'm headed to bed. The paper was on homosexuality, which I wasn't too thrilled about, but I tried to balance the fact that it is wrong, unnatural, and dangerous with the fact that we need to love these people as Christ would. One particular quote in my research I feel really portrayed the conundrum we Christians are in on this topic. It comes from Jeffrey Satinover, M.D. and his book "Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth":

Gay politics arouses in me an exasperated, somewhat stifled, outrage, exasperated and stifled because of the tangle of conflicting emotions that arise when ‘political power’ is joined to ‘victim’ status; outrage because gay activism distorts the truth and harms not only society but homosexuals themselves, especially young people.

Yet...

How can our hearts not go out to the young, pre-homosexual boy or girl who is already shy, lonely, sensitive, and who surely suffers taunting rejection and maybe even beatings by the very peers he or she envies and most longs to be with? Can we really blind ourselves to the presence of that still-suffering child within the adult, however bristling and exotic an exterior with which he protects himself? And finally, just how different is ‘the homosexual’ from ourselves? We so easily see-and then look down on-the self-protective maneuvering in others, which is far less painful to admit it in ourselves. (20-21)