I've listened to Dan Savage's book "The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant" about how he and his husband adopted the child. I went trough total turmoil of emotions, cuz during the listen I laughed, I cried, I rolled on the floor, vomited, screamed, got electrocuted... I mean it was a wild ride. Here's an interesting sentence "Melissa named the baby David Kevin Pierce; David for her current roommate, Kevin for his biological father (a.k.a. Bacchus), and Pierce, Melissa's family name." I mean you see it's a pretty nutty ride.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
