Beth Kimbell has a new essay up on her site: Sexual Freedom, Spiritual Expression. This was featured in BiWomen, Summer 2011, Vol 29, No. 3.

“To pretend to be someone else, to restrict yourself from the natural expression of your love is true sin to us.” [via]

Consider also:

  1. “I grew up believing in the inherent goodness of humans, and that religion was the crutch they used to get through life without accepting true responsibility for their actions.”
  2. “It took years to learn to be myself and I would not give it up.”
  3. “I never felt the need to choose, but I could never be completely open in the restrictive, old-fashioned Christian world I inhabited.”
  4. “In the Love of Romeo and Juliet was no Flaw; but family Feud, which imported nothing to that Love, was its Bane; and the Rashness and Violence of their Revolt against that Repression, slew them.”
  5. “If in mans’ heart of hearts there reigned this Self, come from eternity and but a pilgrim on its changeless way, could there be in his nature aught of folly or of evil, or any limit to his wisdom and his love?”