"I was raised to pray to, fear and worship images of old men with long flowing beards like God and Santa Claus. These were father figures that were forced into my young mind at an early age. So now I chase men with white beards. Now these religious wack jobs call me a sodomite and a sinner for being homosexual. It was their book and conditioning that taught me how to love and worship men."

"For the love that is evident in the laying down of life at the crucifixion is also demonstrated in the laying down of life in humble service in the footwashing. In the footwashing we have "an acted parable of the Lord's humiliation unto death" (Beasley-Murray 1975:154; cf. D. Wenham 1995:15).