No one should have to employ his or her sexual behavior as the overriding description of one’s identity. Sexual proclivities are such a small part of what makes a person a person that it is a simple, and inaccurate, synecdoche to have one small part define the whole. It is neither accurate nor adequately descriptive for either the straight or the gay person. Even the gay culture has seen the paucity of such an identification as they have added so many permutations onto sexual

In reading a book by Os Guinness, I came across a quote of an anonymous letter from the 2nd century A.D. Restating it might be helpful for us today as we attempt to regain what may be lost ground for the Church. "Christians are indistinguishable from other men either by nationality, language or customs. They do not inhabit separate cities of their own, or speak a strange dialect, or follow some outlandish way of life. Their teaching is not based upon reveries inspired by the