Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Peter Gomes, Harvard minister and author, dies at 68

"I am a Christian who happens as well to be gay ... Those realities, which are unreconcilable to some, are reconciled in me by a loving God."

"[My mother] always told me that I must invent my own reality. Reality will not conform to you. You must invent your own and then conform to it. So I did. I am an authentic and an original. ... I will not allow myself to be known simply as an African American, no more than I would allow myself to be known as gay or conservative. They are all bits and pieces of a work in progress. I am a child of God."



http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/cambridge/2011/03/peter_gomes_harvard_minister_a_2.html