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Keith Wildenberg is a tall man whose hawkish face is topped with a mop of shaggy curls. He is leaning over my kitchen counter and gesturing with a wine glass as he recalls the days of his youth: \u201cSo many of the evangelical [Catholic] kids were the queer kids,\u201d he says, meaning the Catholic students who gave witness talks at teen retreats and sought out informal ways to share their faith. \u201cWe had the best testimonies!\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Wildenberg first heard gay people mentioned in a Catholic context in 1978, when he was in sixth grade. He recalls that a classmate \u201cmade a crack about sodomy,\u201d and the religious sister leading the class informed them that the sin of Sodom wasn\u2019t about sex, and that \u201chomosexuals deserve our compassion.\u201d Although he wasn\u2019t out of the closet then, Mr. Wildenberg already had begun to realize that he was an outsider in some painful way connected to his sexuality. Still, his faith flourished in high school, with plenty of encouragement from priests and teachers. He spent some time discerning the priesthood but instead moved to San Francisco\u2014where he thought all gay men eventually ended up\u2014and is now semi-retired and sings in his church\u2019s schola cantorum. After a long journey with his faith, he is now a practicing Catholic on fire to evangelize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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