Andrew Marin is a twentysomething graduate of the University of Illinois, Chicago, living in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood. A self-professed "Bible-banging homophobe" as a teenager, Marin experienced an awakening of sorts while in college when several of his closest friends told him they were gay. Determined to try to shed his prejudices, Marin embarked on a mission to get to know as many gay people as he could. He began frequenting gay bars, looking up gay clergy and asking to meet with them, exchanging emails with new gay friends he met online, and showing up at public gay events. The result was the formation of The Marin Foundation, which its website describes as "the very first organization that works to build a bridge between the religious and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) communities in a non-threatening, research and biblically oriented fashion."
"So in Christ we, though many, form one body, and
each member belongs to all the others." - Romans 12:5
each member belongs to all the others." - Romans 12:5