re: #167 reine.de.tout

Yes, it should be.

I was talking once to a friend of mine who went to be a nun but didn’t stay, instead returned home and teaches at her church, mentors young people. She is very well educated in teachings and beliefs of the Catholic Church. Anyhow, I mentioned to her once that I felt that those transgressions which resulted in harm to someone, physical or mental harm to someone, were much worse sins, in terms of the personal evil of someone, than those sins that went against the general tenets of the faith but which result no harm done to others, and she agreed.

And he is making just about that same point.

You are absolutely right.

I was really moved by the piece (in no small measure because I have a close relative who is gay and I have seen his suffering at the hands of others, up close) and how Boteach makes clear identity has little to do with sexuality but more to do with moral and ethical behavior.

I like that.