Author Alan Hollinghurst's latest book The Stranger's Child has been receiving favourable reviews.
Hollinghurst is an author and gay. He is quite fascinated by how not being able to say things creates a sort of tension.
That is a great line.
It should never be an issue whether a person is gay or not. But difficulties emerge when people are forced to hide their sexual orientation.
What happen then when gay men join religious orders, congregations and priesthood?
They find themselves in a society/community whose history and orthodoxy is opposed to homosexuality.
What happens when a significant number of gay men join such organisations?
It leads to secrecy, ternsion and a lifestyle of subterfuge, trickery too.
As long as the institutional church refuses to be open and honest on this issue, the church will remain incapable of being truthful in its mission.
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