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riffing on the relevance of a book about gay celibacy for people who are neither gay nor celibate:<\/p>\n

\u2026Hill explores how our cultural expectations affect people who, for whatever reason, don\u2019t expect to marry or have kids. How do we give and receive love? How do we lead lives which are fruitful and not just lonely expanses of time-before-death? So often gay people in the \u201ctraditional\u201d (for lack of a better word) churches receive no hint that we, too, have vocations\u2014that we, too, are called to love specific other people. So Hill is trying to restore \u201cspiritual friendship\u201d\u2014intimate, lasting friendship which draws the friends closer to God\u2014as a vocation for gay or same-sex attracted Christians.<\/p>\n

But for now I want to look at a different question. Has making marriage the only intelligible committed relationship between adults been good for marriage<\/em>? Has making romance the only haven for adult intimacy been good for romance?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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riffing on the relevance of a book about gay celibacy for people who are neither gay nor celibate: \u2026Hill explores how our cultural expectations affect people who, for whatever reason, don\u2019t expect to marry or have kids. How do we give and receive love? 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