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Gay Catholic man from Hilliard says sexuality, faith coexist
Joe Gentilini, 65, of Hilliard, has written Hounded by God, a book made up largely of journal excerpts. (Tom Dodge | DISPATCH)
By JoAnne Viviano
The Columbus Dispatch Friday September 20, 2013 5:31 AM
Growing up gay and Roman Catholic, Joe Gentilini found religion to be “a horror.” As he started graduate school at Ohio University in 1978, he was determined to give up on God.
But when he stopped praying, he felt a gnawing in his being that he just couldn’t dismiss.
The following year, as he visited a friend at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Trappist monastery in Kentucky, he went into the woods and prayed, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
As he continued, his plea changed. “I said, ‘My God, my God, why have I forsaken you?’ And I started to cry.
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/faith_and_values/2013/09/20/gay-catholic-man-says-sexuality-faith-coexist.html
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/hounded-by-god-joseph-gentilini/1115392875?ean=2940016790442
