Yes to Gay Identity, No to Gay Sex? The Concept Shaking the Foundations of the ACNA

Mar 5, 2021 by Jill

by Edgar Noble, Juicy Ecumenism:

[…] “I am gay” (or L,G,B,T,Q or I) is at best a recently-invented social construction, as I have argued above (as is the so-called “straight” identity as I have also argued above). The rhetorical repertoire of progressive gender theory was developed to obscure this. Philosophers of ideas call this process reification—a social process by which social artifacts gain the status of natural fixities that they do not deserve. Unfortunately, “gay-but-celibate” partakes of this error.

As a doctrine, “gay-but-celibate” is an ideological gateway drug—an inadvertent portal to heresy, or blasphemy, or ultimately improper sexual acts.

The challenge now facing the Anglican Church in North America is not about an adjective. It is about the conceptual apparatus of progressive gender theory. Many Anglicans—like their fellow citizens—already use its nomenclature as a matter of course, innocent of its implications. Ideologically linked to America’s soft-core cultural leftism, and exacerbated by the widespread acceptance of identity politics, progressive gender theory has entered into the Anglican bloodstream. As indicated in the earlier portion of this essay, various recent statements by lay, clergy and episcopal leaders make this bracingly clear.

Our gender-blurring culture exalts disruption and innovation, making it hard to see problems and harder still to frame solutions. But we have resources. In an era that idolizes novelty, we will do well to resist moral, theological and ecclesial innovation of all kinds.

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