“…the book deliberately mistakes petty prejudice for intellectual courage when it suggests that its preparation cost the author much and might well endanger him by virtue of his swimming against the prevalent ideological current.
As if there were something similar between Gagnon’s comfortable tenure or cozy church activities and the daily sufferings of gay boys bashed, bullied, sent by their parents to boot camp or left by the curb ! The long list of youngsters dying because of what they were, from Matthew Shepard to Tyler Clementi, exposes this special pleading of Gagnon’s for the heartless, revolting hypocrisy it is.”

I would like to extend a personal ‘thank you’ for publishing this fine paper, which is long overdue! I hope it gets it due attention on your excellent website

I have never really considered Gagnon to be a scholar or an intellectual, but I digress.

William (the William who is proud to be mentioned along with the lamented Bruce Gerig in footnote 103)

1) gagnon’s thesis is “ooooh. Gay. Icky”.

2) hermanEutics is the fine art if getting your holy book to say whatever you need it to

3) gagnon and his ilk–and there is a lot of ilk there– really know nothing about gay people at all, but they sure to know how to yak

4) the absolute authority of Holy St. Gandalf,s cry: “send me someone with less lore and more wisdom.”

I got half way through this and gave up.