This is one of those books you read that you really have to question when the Catholic church is going to figure out their LGBTQ problem. This is a memoir of a lady with a wife and together they adopt a child, a young toddler boy. The boy goes to pre-school at their local Catholic church but is told by the priest that the boy cannot go to school there. They pull him out but when happens to another that makes the news, these parents come out and put their names to the story. The author bounces between growing up & really not know who she was and eventually coming to the point that she is gay in college. She grew up in a very Catholic family and still loves her Catholic faith but obviously has a hard time with Catholicism not accepting her. She is part of a loving couple with a young boy--these are exactly the people that should be in our church but instead they are turned away in rather demeaning fashion. It makes me sad and I also realize the Catholic church has to change & get this right or in 75, 100 years there might not be a Catholic church that anyone pays attention to.
This one is a keeper for me. I almost don't want to pass it out afraid I won't get it back.
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