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I look at the rates of suicide among gay teens. They are so, so high for suicide attempts and for completed suicides.
Andrew Solomon
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Andrew Solomon
Age: 60
Born: 1963
Born: October 30
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If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.
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Penalizing homosexuals does not save any innocent victims. The idea that God and the Church accept these people while they are celibate and then if they go off and do something with someone else and both derive joy from it without any apparent harm to anyone else, the Church excommunicates them - that, to me, is bizarre.
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If you are married and you go off and have an affair with someone, if you are a husband who does that, it may potentially hurt your wife enormously. But it seems to me likely also to compromise your marriage. That seems to me to be a harm.
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It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.
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We live in the right time, even if it doesn't always feel like it.
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We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.
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I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.
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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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If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
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When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
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I had always wanted to have children, so it caused me a lot of grief when I was younger, and I had supposed that gay people could not be parents.
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We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
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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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Despair is part of love.
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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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I'm a huge believer in science. But I don't think it explains everything.
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