As Our Families, Our Values turns upside-down the widely accepted notion that only heterosexual people are entitled to get married, have sex, and rear children, you gain insight into personal struggles and affirmations that testify to the spirituality, procreativity, and wholesomeness of the diverse relationships of the Lavender community.

Contents
Preface

• Section I. Challenging Procreative Privilege
• Chapter 1. Queering Procreative Privilege: Coming Out as Families
• Chapter 2. Queer Culture and Sexuality as a Virtue of Hospitality
• Chapter 3. The Concubine and the Eunuch: Queering Up the Breeder's Bible
• Chapter 4. The Book of Ruth: An Example of Procreative Strategies for Queers
• Chapter 5. Christmas, Sex, Longing, and God: Toward a Spirituality of Desire
• Section II. Families of Choice
• Chapter 6. The Power to Choose: We're Here, We're Queer, and We Want to Get Hitched
• Chapter 7. Variety Is the Spice of Life: Doing It Our Ways
• Chapter 8. The Transforming Power of Queer Love
• Chapter 9. Together on the Path: Gay Relationships in a Buddhist Context
• Chapter 10. "With This Ring You Are Made Holy unto Me According to the Laws of Moses": Celebrating and Sanctifying Lesbian and Gay Relationships and Families
• Chapter 11. A Family Friend: Paul's Letter to the Romans as a Source of Affirmation for Queers and Their Families
• Chapter 12. Dancing Bears, Performing Husbands, and the Tyranny of the Family
• Chapter 13. Just a Perfect Blendship: Friendship and Sexuality
• Chapter 14. Making Love for the Whole World to Feel: Four Erotic Rituals for Gay Men
• Chapter 15. "Where Two or More Are Gathered": Using Gay Communities as a Model for Christian Sexual Ethics
• Chapter 16. What Will We Teach the Children?
• Chapter 17. Webs of Betrayal, Webs of Blessings
• Chapter 18. We Are Not(in ital) Your Hope for the Future: Being an Interracial Lesbian Family Living in the Present
• Section III. Relationships: Trials and Tribulations
• Chapter 19. Spirituality and Gay Male Couples Living in the Context of HIV/AIDS
• Chapter 20. Letting Go: A View of Grief in Process (Finding My Way Back to Me)
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

Robert Goss, Strongheart Squire, Amy Adams