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Good morning. In the eighties, there were mugs and tourist kitsch printed with the words, 鈥淎ll the world鈥檚 queer save thee and me鈥� and even thee鈥檚 a bit queer.鈥� These things I pondered as a child: what does it mean to judge others as odd? Why is my normal the measure of their strangeness? Queer only meant strange or unusual then. 鈥� at least it did in my world. Yet it felt ominous that even the one other person in our club, of thee and me, turned out to be different, a bit strange.聽Before the war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann, he was assessed as being 鈥榤ore normal than the average person鈥� 鈥� and yet this man had been capable of participating uncritically and wholeheartedly in organising the deaths of thousands and thousands of Jews and other so called undesirables as part of the Nazi 鈥渇inal solution鈥�. Eichmann wanted to be a success, to belong. In these terms, Normality is clearly overrated. If it doesn鈥檛 give us the strength of character to subvert evil, to treat an enemy with compassion and humanity, then normality may become the self-righteous, self-justifying mask for great hatred.聽聽If I do not want to be a bit queer I might, like Adolf Eichmann, simply obey orders, leave unjust laws unchallenged, and condemn thousands to death or unnecessary suffering. But order to truly love our own people, we must recognise how other people鈥檚 welfare depends on our compassion, integrity and courage.聽聽God whose face is reflected in every human being, make us eccentric in our commitment to love every person, every nationality, every idiosyncrasy. Make us as odd 鈥� and compassionate -as Jesus. Amen