GOD IS A THOUGHT THAT MAKES ALL THAT IS STRAIGHT CROOKED: New feature! Because I finally gave in and accepted that I’m probably That Girl, I added a sidebar set of links on God and homosexuality. These are links that do not suck. I will be adding lots more, I hope, in the next few days. Please send me your recommendations. Book recs will take me a while, since I will have to actually read the book, but I do want to get more substantive links up. And yes, of course I will be (re)reading actual-factual stuff from the Vatican and the USCCB, but I make no guarantees that I will like those things enough to link to them.

Some questions for you, the reader:
1. Do you hate this formating? Would you rather I create a separate page, and just link to that page, rather than this sidebar list of links?

2. Obviously, please recommend resources! Things written by women are especially welcome–although I know it’s a small pool, since honestly, I think I’m very unusual in the degree to which my own self-understanding parallels gay men’s narratives rather than women’s. It’s really hard to find lesbians whose descriptions of their lives sound like mine (Dorothy Allison is one exception), whereas I could throw a dart in a gay bar and find a man whose story resonates with me. (…This is especially vexing because hello, I like women! I want women’s narratives, I want stories where women are central. See my comments on “Absolutely Fabulous” and why it is, indeed, so absolutely fabulous. Anyway, cleft stick, that’s life, whatever.)

3. I really want to make clear that the Church’s stance on homosexuality is intrinsically related to, and flows from, her general stance on sexual love. So pieces making that connection are especially welcome. I’m not sure whether I should include in this sidebar section resources on other stuff, like contraception or the theology of the body, where the link to homosexuality isn’t immediately evident (and where, frankly, it’s much easier to find non-crappy resources anyway). Your views welcomed.

3. What should I call this section? Right now it’s “Sicut cervus,” from the Psalms of course, “As the deer longs for the running stream, my heart longs for You, my Lord.” I really like that, but it isn’t wildly specific. Other options:
God and Gay Pride
Love comes quickly
I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You [a song I adore, but which implies a certain Calvinism….]
The Nightingale and the Rose
Beauty in exile
Pretty girls in their Easter dresses
Lorca’s Novena
Lily Among Thorns
[similarly] Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away
Desert of the heart

other possibilities? …Anyway, vote for your favorites, if you care.