'For most of us, moral survival is like crossing a choppy sea in an overturned boat. Get a little sleepy, or get a little reckless in your hold, and suddenly the boat and you are bobbing apart in cold, dark water. So you desperately scramble back, trusting that somehow, eventually, this boat will get you to land.
People who picture themselves as soggy sailors clinging to overturned boats are not apt to treat their fellow flotsam with contempt. Likewise the proclamation of Christian morality has no place for a righteous majority who scorn those who will not play by the rules. What is needed are unrighteous people who recognize the universal need to receive God's mercy and power for obedience, whatever's one particular distortion of God's intent for sexuality. The log must come out of the eye.'
Thomas E. Schmidt, Straight & Narrow?, p.55.
