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I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

Andrew Solomon

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Andrew Solomon
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
Author
Clinical Psychologist
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Manhattan borough
New York City
Faith
Vaguely
Upbringing
Jewish
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Connections
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If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
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I spent years thinking I had to make a choice between being true to myself and being with a man and not having a family, and trying to live something of a lie and being with a woman and having children.
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I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
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Our needs are our greatest asset. It turns out I've learned to give all the things that I need.
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I like the relative literacy of at least some of England. I mean, I didn't come for the food or the weather!
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At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?
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Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.
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With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
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I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.
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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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Labeling a child's mind as diseased-whether with autism, intellectual disabilities, or transgenderism-may reflect the discomfort that mind gives parents more than any discomfort it causes their child. Much gets corrected that might better have been left alone.
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