Charting the sex wars, Pt. The first of two columns.
Words are tricky things.
It centered on testimonies by people who said they had been healed of racism, alcoholism and various sexual sins, including homosexuality. But everyone was reading between the lines during the July 5-14 gathering in Denver. But he wrote his meticulously balanced book as part of his own pilgrimage as an Episcopalian who also is gay. The religious sex wars rage on, but no one seems to be learning much, he said. But it has now become a given that any one to the right of center is automatically coming at this from a position of hate and stupidity.