My hard-won contentment reflects the simple truth that inner peace often hinges on outer peace. In the gnostic gospel of St Thomas, Jesus says, ‘If you bring forth what is within you,19 what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.’ When I run up against the anti-gay positions of modern religious bodies, I often wish that St Thomas’s words were canonical because his message embraces many of us with horizontal identities. Keeping the homosexuality locked away within me nearly destroyed me, and bringing it forth has nearly
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