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concept-272	none	Constructing a Coherent Christian Sexual Ethic: Towards Discovering the Gift of Homosexuality*	2005	21	.pdf	application/pdf	8535	307	41	What finally convinced me of the wrongness of the Church’s teachings was not that they were intellectually so confused, but that in the circumstances of my own life – and of the lives I discovered around me – they seemed so destructive of the possibilities of human love and self- realization.9 Thus, it was not because the Church’s teaching was illogical that Sullivan found it to be incoherent, but because, in his effort to apply that teaching to his own life, he experienced it as an obstacle to love and genuine self- discovery. If we accept the continuity of human love that these assertions about sanctifying relationships assume, then it seems accurate to hold that it is out of a self-serving love which seeks to gain something from the other that an integrated self-love which enables the other to be develops.	cache/concept-272.pdf	txt/concept-272.txt