Burning Like A Thousand Rainbow Suns, Part One
I’m a vehemently Side A queer individual (Side A = I think God permits same-sex marriage), but I follow a number of queer people who are Side B (those don’t think God permits same-sex marriage) on Twitter. I should state at the outset that while I will not spare traditionalist Heterosexual People With Opinions, I’m not out to bash LGBT+ folks who choose to be celibate for religious reasons. If I thought they were right about Scripture, I’d put my nose to the grindstone and try to survive as a perpetually single and abstinent Monastery of One, so on some level, I get it. There are also Side B queer folk I’ve learned things from. “Learning from” though, doesn’t equate to “shouldn’t criticize” and it’s criticism time. So, over the space of a couple of posts I’ll be critiquing Gabriel Blanchard’s response to a specific argument for Side A convictions. In Gabriel’s summary of the affirming argument, it is “ based in the text It is better to marry than to burn , which in the Gre