From Dan McClellan’s video Can a person be gay and a Christian?

Responding to this interpretation of what Romans 1 says about homosexuality: “Which means He abandoned you, allowing you to think unnaturally because you don’t truly believe in Him.”

I want to point out that this is an attempt to reduce all homosexuality down to one single explanation that entirely ignores so much of the LGBTQ+ community because it says that God only allows people to become homosexual if they worship the created over the Creator. And this ignores the fact that millions of homosexuals around the world were born, raised, and have always been committed and faithful Christians. And so this entirely ignores their lived experience so that all homosexuality can be explained as a rejection of God; so that one can maintain the fiction that God only allows them to become homosexuals if they abandon God. And that is wildly inaccurate.

[The Bible’s restrictions are] all negotiable and so much of it has already been negotiated away. The only reason [homosexuality] remains a central identity marker for so many Christians is because it is useful for the structuring of power and values politics. It is useful for boundary maintenance.

Christians find it useful and so it stays around. But it will go the way of everything else we have negotiated away as soon as enough people have decided that the lives of those LGBTQ+ people are more important than the utility of this identity marker for our identity politics. We need to get over this.