Febrero menos ocho días...

A clases, la siguiente semana... Mientras, estoy que-te-vienes con la lectura de tres libros...

• A home at the end of the world, de Michael Cunningham.
• La biografía de Michel Foucault que escribió Didier Eribon.
• Y un libro imprescindible para los gays que, alguna vez cristianos en general y de rito católico en particular, se alejaron de la fe, de Dios y de la Iglesia... Taking a Chance on God, de John J. McNeill, editado por Beacon Press.

Mucho trabajo. Menor dosis de Rivotril (suspiro de alivio). Ayer preparé sandwiches de salmón ahumado que quedaron de-li-cio-sos... Olvidaré definitivamente a Starbucks como mi proveedor oficial de emparedados nórdicos: a mí me quedan mejores... He terminado de trabajar con las bases de Bancomext y Banxico. Ahora me voy al Colmex... a revisar los legajos personales de Manuel Gómez Morín en poder de la Biblioteca.

A todos, les envío un fuerte abrazo.

A mi baby, todo mi ser. Te amo. Trabaja y estudia duro, ¿ok?

Los dejo con los tres puntos principales del libro que antecede a Taking..., The Church and the Homosexual, defendidos en sus primeras ediciones por un sacerdote jesuita y seriamente considerados en sesudas discusiones de teología en toda Roma a principios del pontificado de Karol Wojtyla:

1. God created human beings with a great variety of both gender identities and sexual-object choices. Consequently, the attempt to force humans into narrow heterosexist categories of "masculinity" or "feminity" can destroy the great richness and variety of God's creation.

In all cultures and in every period of history, a certain percentage of men and women develop as gays and lesbians. These individuals should be considered as part of God's creative plan. Their sexual orientation has no necessary connection with sin, sickness or failure; rather, it is a gift from God to be accepted and lived out with gratitude. God does not despise anything that God has created.

It should be stressed here that human beings do not choose their sexual orientation, they discover it as something given. To pray for a change in one's sexual orientation is about as meaningful as to pray for a change in the color of one's eyes. Furthermore, there is no healthy way to reverse or change sexual orientation once it is established.

2. Homosexuals, rather than being a menace to the values of society and the family, as many have tended to assume, have, as a part of God's creative plan, special gifts and qualities and a very positive contribution to make to the development of society. Indeed, if lesbians and gay men were to disappear; the further development of society toward greater humaneness would be seriously endangered.

3. The love between two lesbians or gay men, assuming that it is a constructive human love, is not sinful, nor does it alienate the lovers from God's plan. On the contrary, it can be a holy love, mediating God's presence in the human community as effectively as heterosexual love.