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When our son was a small boy, we might have agreed that everyone is heterosexual because there is only one sexual orientation and homosexuality is a perversion; or people can choose to be straight or gay; or because they embody evil, homosexuals can't be considered Christian. "Hate the sin but love the sinner" might have been something we would have said, but what it probably meant to us was "If you are gay, keep your distance and don't get close enough where we have to know you personally."

But as our son grew into a teenager and a young man, he so pleased his mother and me. With his faith, his honesty, creativity, sensitivity, and selflessness, ... and his revelation that he was gay, how could we continue to feel the same way about homosexuality as we did previously? There was a strong clash between what we knew about our son's personality and character and what we thought we knew about homosexuality. Something had to give. We had to choose.