From Wounded Hearts by Roberta Showalter Kreider

It is easy to judge and condemn someone whom we do not know. It is especially easy to judge a group of people whom we think do not measure up to our interpretation of what the Bible says; however, when we take time to learn to know gay people as individuals, our perception of them changes. This is why it is so important to tell our faith stories to one another.

As the issue of homosexuality is debated in our churches, we seldom ask the people we are calling sinners to tell us about their own personal experience of relationship with God. The editor's own life and attitude, she says, has been profoundly changed by listening to the stories of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and their families.