Then in 2008, his younger sister, Katey, came out as a lesbian.
During the first two decades of his academic career, he maintained a traditional view of sexuality and “hardly knew a soul who was not heterosexual.” As he worked on issues such as torture and climate change, his attention was drawn to other issues - slavery, segregation, defamation of Jews, subjugating women - for which Christians once cited Scripture for their entrenched positions. Gushee says the journey to his current position has been a long and winding one. I will be your ally in every way I know how to be.”
I will seek to stand in solidarity with you who have suffered the lash of countless Christian rejections. “I will henceforth oppose any form of discrimination against you. “I do join your crusade tonight,” Gushee’s prepared remarks say, according to a draft obtained by Religion News Service. Conservatives are about to learn that one of America’s leading evangelical ethicists is defecting to the opposition.ĭavid Gushee, a Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, a Baptist college and divinity school in Georgia, plans to announce that he now affirms same-sex relationships, in a speech to The Reformation Project Conference, a gathering of pro-LGBT Christians in Washington, on Nov. NEW YORK (RNS) At a moment when American churches and politicians are warring over gay rights and same-sex marriage, each side needs every soldier it can muster. David Gushee is distinguished professor at a prominent Baptist university and co-author of one of the most popular Christian ethics books of the last 25 years.
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