Tushnet, who first coined the phrase “a vocation of yes,” has recently written about her own exclusive commitment to another woman, the sort of commitment she has argued can strengthen a gay person’s walk with God. They openly identify as “a lesbian couple.”
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How the Side B Project Failed
The movement has taken on board all the trappings of sexual identitarianism, from “preferred pronouns” to queer theory to the splintering of attendees into “affinity groups …
The promised “vocation of yes” was always bound up with things to which the sincerely struggling same-sex attracted believer must say “no.” No to the embrace of gay identity language and the accompanying normalization of same-sex desire. No to elevating the same-sex attracted or gender-dysphoric as “prophets” who will dictate new church policy, including policy that will affect fragile struggling …More
The promised “vocation of yes” was always bound up with things to which the sincerely struggling same-sex attracted believer must say “no.” No to the embrace of gay identity language and the accompanying normalization of same-sex desire. No to elevating the same-sex attracted or gender-dysphoric as “prophets” who will dictate new church policy, including policy that will affect fragile struggling children. No to all kinds of “romantic” same-sex relationships, whether or not they omit the physical act of intercourse.
Eve Tushnet has gone still further, suggesting in 2015 that a gay Christian who switched sides from B to A could be “becoming more Christian, not less,” if he was moving from a context of “judgment” and “shame” to a context of “hope, welcome, and trust.” More recently, she has further suggested that “Catholics can affirm our doctrines and also affirm transition as a way of acknowledging and …More
Eve Tushnet has gone still further, suggesting in 2015 that a gay Christian who switched sides from B to A could be “becoming more Christian, not less,” if he was moving from a context of “judgment” and “shame” to a context of “hope, welcome, and trust.” More recently, she has further suggested that “Catholics can affirm our doctrines and also affirm transition as a way of acknowledging and resolving the complexity of some people’s sexed bodies.” Here, again, we see how the seeds for new departures from orthodoxy were already sown at a much earlier stage.
