Summary

The next chapter is titled “conflicts.” Doyle describes a letter she received from someone in her former church who said that while she could see Doyle and Abby loved each other and wanted to offer her support, her beliefs still left her in a place of thinking that homosexuality is wrong. She then asks what to do about what she calls “this God conflict” (249). Doyle then describes commending the writer for acknowledging there was a conflict, and calling on her to understand that loving her and Abby means not participating in anything that in any way denies or undermines their love. She then asks the writer to honestly and deeply, if uncomfortably, question what is truly Knowing and what is what she has been told by others is truth. “There is no church,” she says, “that owns God. There is no religion that...