Attending the 2015 Parliament of Religions alongside 10,000 other people an hour's drive from where I was born with my mother has had a powerful effect on me.
I suppose, Alex, that there is a distant chance that the two of you will find a way onto the same continent and that what you are feeling now with grow into love
In that sense, there is no difference between gays and straights. None! We have all abused our free will to create conflicting definitions of love, marriage and sex and thus refusing to allow God, who is love and the author of human sexuality, to define and explain those terms for us.