The LGBTQ+ movement’s understanding of itself as ontological and morally good conflicts with the biblical account in Genesis 1:27. The codification of gay marriage and LGBTQ+ civil rights launched a collision course between LGBTQ+ and the Christian faith. When the Supreme Court decided in favor of gay marriage, the danger of my position started to come into focus. ![]() I wanted to meet everyone where they were and do nothing to provoke insult. It was a carry-over from my gay activist days. Why did I do this? I have a bunch of lame and backside-covering excuses. I have publicly sinned by advocating for the use of transgender pronouns in interviews and public Q&As. I have publicly sinned on the issue of transgender pronouns, which I have carelessly used in books and articles. Public sin requires public repentance, not course correction. My use of transgendered pronouns was not a mistake it was sin. But progressive sanctification came slowly, and I have failed many times during these past decades.Īfter I have learned lessons, I have earnestly tried to course-correct. In 1999, Christ called me to repentance and belief, and I became a despised defector of the LGBTQ+ movement. In 1998, I became one of the first crop of so-called “tenured radicals” in American universities, proudly touting my lesbian street cred. ![]() This issue is personal, political, and spiritual for me. A civil war erupted within broad evangelicalism, and the idol of LGBTQ+ is dividing the house.
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