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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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I felt like all of the work was training for just one central idea: Accept your child for who he is. I'm not saying that I've done a brilliant job with that. But I've done my best.
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Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger.
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Being gay is immutable. Maybe someday we'll figure out more of the science and it will be changeable, but we have no leads so far.
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If the Mormon Church still supported polygamy, and if it appeared to be a system that was not exploitative of women, I wouldn't feel that it's my place to forbid it.
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The idea of anyone contemplating our family and witnessing the affection that we all have for one another and seeing evil in it is deeply hurtful and sad and also deeply bewildering.
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There is a tendency to dehumanize kids that commit crimes. The system is focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation. These kids are the most misunderstood and most cruelly treated.
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There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.
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It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.
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I found it very comforting to see that there is no such thing as a completely normal family. People find their way through whatever the differences may be.
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The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.
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I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.
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The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
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Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
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The world changed, and the idea of having a family became feasible for homosexuals. But I was still left with the question as to what it would be like for a child to grow up with gay parents.
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I don't believe that raising my voice in song is going to be pleasing to a God who is sitting upstairs somewhere, waiting to be pleased.
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I would certainly not want my child to be schizophrenic. I wouldn't want him or her to be a criminal either. If, on the other hand, I had a deaf child, it would help that I have developed a real admiration for Deaf culture.
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The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
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I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.
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The campaign against polygamy, around which a lot of anti-Mormon sentiment was organized, seems horrific to me.
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