I'm not degrading the love between men and women. She was reminded of the ties that bound mother and son, which were instinctive and carried more influence than learned religion. They condemn the love that I feel without knowing it, without witnessing, without observation. They condemn my love, which is strong and good and gives me great happiness, and they call it perversion. That is all.
Fundamentalists are alien to the very concept of love.
They despair over this world, finding sin and immorality in everyone, exulting at the thought of human beings writhing in everlasting hellfire. His mother had listened with shock and horror and was now approaching hysteria, her eyes red and angry, her hands shaking. Robert . . . You should be denying that you're homosexual. You should be ashamed and asking forgiveness instead of this.