ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns what Ken Plummer (1995) calls a sexual story, a narrative of the intimate life of sexual minorities. The sexually marginalized person, as a distinct type of person, is a social construct that begins with sexuality but ends with an image of a total person. Dignity was founded in 1969 and has two missions. It is a social change organization with a political mission to work for the reform of the Catholic Church and for justice and equality. A God-given sexuality, however, is not the most important construction because, within the Catholic Church, an orientation other than heterosexual is "objectively disordered" but not a sin. The special spirituality is sexual because it is constructed as a consequence of sexual marginalization. As constructed, sexual marginalization does not mean that sexual minorities have been abandoned by God.
