Throughout the rest of the book, Robinson seeks to convince the reader of the need for legal gay marriage in all fifty states and at the federal level. Chapters with titles such as \u201cWhy Marriage Now?\u201d\u009d \u201cDon\u2019t Children Need a Mother and a Father?\u201d\u009d and \u201cWhat Would Jesus Do?\u201d\u009d attempt to counter commonly heard objections to homosexual unions. Robinson concludes the book with his final chapter, \u201cGod Believes in Love,\u201d\u009d where he makes the case that God\u2019s bountiful love puts no restrictions upon the gender of those expressing their love for one another.<\/p>\n
God Believes in Love is a deeply personal story told with conviction, but it comes up short in a number of areas. The most glaring is the undercurrent of self-centeredness which arises from time to time in its narrative. As in all divorce stories told by the uninjured party, Robinson\u2019s is one in which everyone concerned has benefitted greatly from the break up. His wife was freed from a relationship with a man who couldn\u2019t love her in a truly marital way. His daughters benefitted from a happier father, and they built a new and wonderful relationship with their new stepdad, Mark. Above all, Robinson was able to be \u201ctrue to himself,\u201d\u009d the highest in our current table of virtues. But one wonders how his ex-wife and daughters remember those difficult years when Robinson decided to disassemble their family (the children were four and eight years old).<\/p>\n
While Robinson served as a bishop in the Episcopal Church, he surprisingly uses far more secular arguments than theological ones.<\/p>\n