Talk:Ailred of Rievaulx

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[edit] Aelred's Sexuality

Aelred is the patron saint of Integrity, an organization in the Episcopal Church of the United States of gays and lesbians and their friends. He is also the patron saint of the Order of St. Aelred, a gay-friendly organization in the Philippines. He is also the patron saint of The National Anglican Catholic Church of the United States, a gay-friendly church serving the northeast and New England.

"His most famous work, On Spiritual Friendship, which explores the relation between spiritual and human friendship in a monastic context, reveals his own conscious homosexual orientation and gives love between persons of the same gender its most profound expression in Christian theology." -- American Council of Learned Societies--Dictionary of the Middle Ages, volume 4.CoppBob 04:48, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)