I was e-mailing this morning with a conservative Christian friend who is orthodox on sexual issues, including same-sex marriage, but who can't fully get behind the Nashville Statement. His reasons are familiar: it didn't say what it ought to have said about divorce and other heterosexual sins and failings, and it was dismissive of the Spiritual Friendship approach, which, according to my friend, was unhelpfully and unnecessarily divisive.
I more or less sympathize with those criticisms, though as I've said, I don't think it's quite fair to blast the Nashville Statement for what it didn't say, as if the signers had to address a number of things before they could affirm what was until a generation or so ago uncontroversial teachings in all Christian churches.
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