The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone. — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people. — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
When you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity. — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard...I believe it is work we are called to do — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“Still, as a straight person, you might say, "This just isn't my fight." No, it isn't. Unless you care about the kind of society… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
“This is an important point, difficult for the modern mind to grasp: homosexuality as a sexual orientation was unknown to the ancient mind. Let… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't… — Gene Robinson Copy Share Image
