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A review by unknownbooks23
Love Into Light: The Gospel, the Homosexual and the Church by Peter Hubbard
2.0
Okay. This was difficult. I wanted to give this book an honest read, without getting too emotionally invested. But I couldn't manage it. By the time I had read through the first five chapters, I was already seeing red.
Here's something about me to give you some background information: I'm bisexual, and have known this for sure since I was 20. If I had read this book when I was first working out my identity, when there's already a decent helping of shame and fear, this book would have added to that.
Pretty much throughout every chapter, there was just so much othering going on. I abhor the insistence that you should use SSA (same sex attraction) to explain your particular "addiction of choice," and attacking or "questioning" why someone would choose to call themselves gay (think David Bennett, who wrote A War of Loves, or Wesley Hill who wrote Washed and Waiting).
I definitely would not recommend this extremely academic and sterile book to someone who was struggling to define themselves, whether as celibate or otherwise. The hardest part of listening comes when we disagree with someone's decision and so we feel the need to speak. This is not an area where just anybody should be allowed to speak without first attempting to really understand why the label was chosen. Instead of reading this, go read A War of Loves and Washed and Waiting.
Here's something about me to give you some background information: I'm bisexual, and have known this for sure since I was 20. If I had read this book when I was first working out my identity, when there's already a decent helping of shame and fear, this book would have added to that.
Pretty much throughout every chapter, there was just so much othering going on. I abhor the insistence that you should use SSA (same sex attraction) to explain your particular "addiction of choice," and attacking or "questioning" why someone would choose to call themselves gay (think David Bennett, who wrote A War of Loves, or Wesley Hill who wrote Washed and Waiting).
I definitely would not recommend this extremely academic and sterile book to someone who was struggling to define themselves, whether as celibate or otherwise. The hardest part of listening comes when we disagree with someone's decision and so we feel the need to speak. This is not an area where just anybody should be allowed to speak without first attempting to really understand why the label was chosen. Instead of reading this, go read A War of Loves and Washed and Waiting.