To prove, perhaps that hindsight teaches us nothing. The book is also about family. Ironically enough - all of the main characters are childless, but have created a family of choice. The author has maintained that one character in the book was included to directly challenge her father's bigotry and homophobia. The book tells a story by interweaving two time periods - that of actions on Rakhat and on Earth.
Confession is good for the soul.
But if you read Torah, you realize that G-d has a lot to answer for. But in doing so we're making a deal that G-d didn't sign onto. DW is firmly celibate. And that they are utterly necessary for the functioning of human society. Walter Miller in A Canticle for Leibowitz would completely understand a world that scorned, stoned, and burned those who come, like Emilio, very close to the living G-d.