[Tax-chick]

Moreover, celibate gay Christians can offer proof that friendship can be real love, and deserves the same honor as any other form of lovingkindness, caretaking and devotion. While nobody wants every friendship to be a deep, committed "spiritual friendship" of the kind championed by St. Aelred, many of us—including single straight people, and married people of every orientation—long for deeper and more lasting friendships. The cultural changes which would better nourish celibate gay Christians, then, would be good for everyone else as well.

I thought this paragraph was particularly strong. Having observed that the option of using another person for sexual gratification can drive out everything else, I think there should be much more value placed on friendship and love that is "human being to human being," rather than "consumer to object."

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yeah. The “consumer to object” thing isn’t love—— it isn’t even user-friendly.

[Marie]

The Eskimos have a thousand different words for ‘snow’ and I think that we should have a thousand different words for love.

* the love I have for Gd
* the love I have for my husband
* the love I have for my parents
* the love I have for my children
* the love I have for my female friends
* the love I have for my male friends
* the love I have for my siblings (I don’t have any, but I wish I did)
* the love I have for my family beyond that
* the love I have for my favorite TV show or movie
* the love I have for my favorite foods
etc.

Each love is special and unique and expressed in different ways. We need a way to articulate that.