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Goss, who teaches in the Department of Religion at Webster University in St. Louis, writes of this article: "My intention is to create dialogue about the love and justice of same-sex relationships within the churches and deconstruct the churches’ claims of procreative privilege for heterosexual marriage. This dialogue involves queer Christians who live the gospel and who want to engage in open discussions with their churches about the morality of their sexual lives and their families of choice... We, queer Christians, can no longer abrogate moral discussion of our lives to religious extremists but need to articulate and witness the moral qualities of our unions. Our struggle for liberation not only includes equal rights but also equal rites within the churches! Full acceptance within the churches can be nothing less full than acceptance of God’s Spirit within our procreative unions and their blessings."

This essay will appear in Breaking the Silence of Sodom: The Crisis of Gay Catholic Priests and Clergy Sexual Abuse, ed. by Donald Boisvert and Robert Goss, Haworth Press, 2004.

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