Mary, Jamie, Marianne, Thank you for this invitation. I accept. I am a straight Catholic woman living in community with a loving, couple who are lifelong public servants (one a physician, one a prosecutor of violent crimes). My friends are both women. One of them is also Catholic.  I live with a family, with a couple who contribute great happiness to my life through the beauty and stability and generosity of their commitment and love for one another and through the reality that their loving life together supports their powerful contribution to the broader community through their service. When some learn that I live with a gay couple, the attention instantly goes to what happens in their bedroom and whether I am condoning "that sin" through our co-housing as if .the listener has heard nothing of my earlier words about my friends and our community (I am also a lifelong community servant through my work as a social worker and then a Catholic Worker). Ours is a gorgeous Christian home.