We also had dissimilar views of the gay role in gospel. Where I saw it as a world gays had made their own, he foregrounded a sexual appeal. “Oh, I don’t know, Tony. You got this beautiful man, with those fine features, and he’s your lover for life. All that holy stuff is so sexy. Laying holy hands on somebody’s body. Letting him use you, and come into your heart, and just go all through you. Now, you know that’s hot!”—and he’d conclude with a giggle. Even to a nonbeliever, his analysis seemed blasphemous. Surely all that passion couldn’t be reduced to a willful sublimation!
