"I think my mother would have sat through a fundamentalist minister's sermon [trashing gays] and silently disagreed. But now [a minister] cannot preach that I am a threat to the American family. She would challenge them. So would my sister. So would my aunt. Ministers need to hear from mothers, sisters, from aunts. If 100 people like me ... have conversations with their families [...] I'm hoping there are a lot of people who will feel that now is the time to be more open. The more that happens, the more public opinion is going to change within the black community. It will happen gradually as more and more people have to cope with that openness. A bunch of us can have tremendous power."
| A quote from former Connecticut state Sen. Chuck Allen in Paul Bass' Fairfield County Weekly article "Out of the Closet and Into the Church"
Also: "My faith in Jesus tells me this is a sanctioned marriage"
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