As baptized Christians, salvation is connected to our participation to the work of spreading and living out the Gospel, more than in conformity to the rules and regulations of a cozy and conformist community. 

God is love, and God is unique---like no other Being.  We learn love through the reciprocity of our human condition, through being in relation to others who are different from ourselves.  We cannot learn anything from those who are just the same as we are.  This is true in relationships between friends, husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters, members of the church.

This is how God created humanity and Jesus, who became human, was not a carbon copy of any other.  

Diversity is not worthless.  People who are alike---as if made on an assembly-line, are too one-dimensional.  It is not the one-dimensional who are prepared to be united head and heart in discipleship with Christ.  It is those who are able to proclaim the coming Reign of Christ for today.