living in the tension of building bridges between opposing world views often brings out the best – and the worst – in a lot of us. people from both sides of the cultural divide often lob labels and accusations in our direction in an effort to ‘figure out’ what The Marin Foundation is all about or to elicit a response of ‘yes’ or ‘no‘.

apparently for some, our efforts to live and love with the same, counter-cultural, unconditional love jesus would and does are confusing.

it seems to me that word – unconditional – should be pretty straight forward. whether gay, in a relationship or not, christian or not, whether people ‘change’ their perspectives or not – we are convinced that we’re simply called to love – and we will continue to press the church to do the same thing.

engaging in relationships where such an expression of unconditional love is possible takes time. many in the gay community are inherently skeptical of anyone or anything associated with ‘the church‘ based on their own personal experiences, hurts and pains. i’ve heard countless stories of rejection and a purely conditional love with damaging and even damning results. developing a trust that when we say ‘i love you‘ we mean it – regardless of personal conviction or belief, and regardless of one’s choices or behavior – doesn’t happen overnight.
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