There is a great deal of joy to be gained finding someone whom you can trust and who will trust you. It takes a lot of forgiving and asking for forgiveness but in the long run (38 years and counting for me) there is sharing, security and, most of all, friendship. True love knows no sexual orientation, it is simply love. Why others are insecure in their relatioship should look more closely at themselves before blaming others.

The clerics of our church have not and will never experience this joy as they are forbidden from having these relationships. Is this what Christ intended. I doubt it.