God Believes in Love, Gene Robinson
God Believes in Love, Gene Robinson
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God Believes in Love
Straight Talk About Gay Marriage

Author: Gene Robinson

Narrator: Gene Robinson

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/18/2012

Synopsis

From Gene Robinson, the Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church, the first openly gay person elected (in 2003) to the historic episcopate and the world's leading religious spokesperson for gay rights and gay marriage, comes a groundbreaking book that lovingly and persuasively makes the case for same-sex marriage. It establishes a commonsense, reasoned, religious argument, made by someone who holds the religious text of the Bible to be holy and sacred and the ensuing two millennia of church history to be relevant to the discussion. For the author, same-sex marriage is a very personal issue: he has been married to his partner for the last four years of a twenty-three-year relationship.

About Gene Robinson

Gene Robinson was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, and graduated from the University of the South with a B.A. in American studies and history. He completed his Master of Divinity degree at the General Theological Seminary in New York, and was ordained deacon and then priest, serving as curate at Christ Church, Ridgewood, New Jersey. Robinson is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. He was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire in 2003, having served as Canon to the Ordinary (assistant to the bishop) for nearly eighteen years. He is also the author of In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on January 05, 2013

God Believes in Love is a wonderful delving into the subject of gay marriage. It's a short book, and an easy read - but it covers all the bases. Why talk about this now? Why should I care about it if I'm not gay? What does the Bible really say about it? Isn't this really more about validating immora......more

Goodreads review by Beth on December 19, 2012

While I am already a firm believer in gay marriage, I saw Mr. Robinson on The Daily Show, and was so impressed by how kind and funny he seemed. I was curious about his book once he mentioned that he specifically discusses the Bible verses often used to mark homosexuality as evil and wrong. After che......more

Goodreads review by Daniel on June 11, 2013

I agree with this man almost entirely, regarding a reasonable Christian perspective on the issue of marriage equality. I continually found my own opinions, being put into words, yet with much more elaboration, and many more references. I wish there was a way I could make this book required reading f......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 30, 2013

This is a great little book for those who have honest questions about gay marriage and are looking for clear, well thought out answers. It would also be helpful to anyone who is sympathetic to the cause of marriage equality but doesn't know how to explain their views to friends and relatives who may......more

Goodreads review by emma on July 24, 2023

Started strong, then got pretty repetitive. Good ideas, but you can tell this was written in 2012. Lacking a lot of nuance, and for that reason I would recommend other authors who tackle the same subject.......more

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