Lesbian Episcopal Priest Condemned for Saying LGBT Mov’t Is Central to Christianity
by Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post:
A lesbian Episcopal priest who believes queerness is central to the Christian tradition and has published a book that claims “queer and trans experience has vast potential to help the church be the church,” is being condemned by a theologian for turning “the sin of Satan into a virtue.”
“We queers exist, and many of us have lives and sensibilities that don’t fit neatly into heteronormative constructs. And honestly, that’s a good thing. Our perceptions of our relationships and ethical obligations are at times of a different hue from the perceptions informed by heteronormative Christian ethics. Far from an ethical deficit, that difference is often shot through with valuable insight,” argues Rev. Elizabeth M. Edman’s in an excerpt fom her book, Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity that was published in part as an essay by the website Salon on Saturday.
Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. a Christian theologian and speaker who serves as a permanent research fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture at Notre Dame University, wrote in a response piece for Breitbart News that Edman misrepresents and omits important pieces of Scripture when making her arguments.
“It does seem oddly consistent, however, that an attempt to turn homosexual relations into a good and Godly act would be paired with an effort to rehabilitate pride and turn the sin of Satan into a virtue,” Williams wrote.
The theologian describes Edman’s proposals as “onerous,” adding that it “involves stripping the Bible of its ‘heteronormativity’ and remaking Christianity in the image of a society that glorifies gender fluidity and pansexualism.”
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