In this paper, Savi Hensman gives a detailed overview of some of the most significant affirmative theological work on same-sex love and the Christian tradition. She demonstrates the unhelpful and simplistic positing of a straightforward ‘conservative versus liberal’ divide on these issues, and draws on Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Methodist, Reformed, Quaker and Anabaptist/Mennonite thinkers.
Read it all (note that the site includes a summary as well as a pdf of the whole paper).
The divide is simpler than this: those who believe in the authority of the Bible and those who do not.
Speaking of which…
What is discouraging is the constant recycling of thoroughly discredited arguments, e.g.:
1. “St. Paul didn’t know about committed gay relationships.” Thoroughly rebutted by, inter alia, N.T. Wright, citing Plato, with whom St. Paul was familiar.
2. Works righteousness (“X andX are nice people; so gay must be OK.”) Integrity has shamelessly used that reasoning.
Pretty fairly sums up why Savi Hensman is an irrelevant journalist.