Queerness for Theological Purification?

Morgan Guyton, whose blog, “Mercy Not Sacrifice” is on the Progressive Christian Channel at Patheos, recently published a response to David Watson’s article on Christian unity and the moralism in the United Methodist Church. Appreciating the theological diversity that exists in the UMC, Watson expressed concern about the increasing moral absolutism of LGBTQ affirmation within United Methodism and how it’s undermining and fracturing the denomination’s ethics, policy and religious authority.

Guyton’s response affirms LGBTQ, but also argues that, “queerness [is] not only compatible with the gospel, but a critical means by which American Christianity can be detoxified.”