Although Burke is modest about his own role in the process, it's clear his determined openness has paid off. I didn't want them to feel they had been sold a bill of goods. Burke's experience, and others like it, might make it more possible for other gay and lesbian clergy to be open. Now I have begun to risk more. But for her, as for most, the patchwork quality of acceptance across the country is always a worry.
Nothing lasts forever.
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