The exegetical situation is straightforward: we know what the text says. I have little patience with efforts to make Scripture say something other than what it says, through appeals to linguistic or cultural subtleties. In an even more telling transformation, New Testament scholar Luke Timothy Johnson, an able defender of the historicity of the Gospels, 3 whose daughter has identified as gay, wrote in Commonweal, As he met LGBT couples, sat with children who’d been traumatized at home or church, processed his relationship with his sister who came out as a lesbian, heard from a student who’d been pained by David’s past teaching, he seems to have been backed into an existential corner….The way he’d been reading Scripture seemed increasingly implausible….At the end of the day, then, Changing Our Mind isn’t so much about David’s reasoned abandonment of 2,500 years of Judeo-Christian teaching on sexuality as it is a telling of his story, a story of seeking to pull together the disparate stories in his world. The book constitutes own story of encounter, compassion, cognitive dissonance, and existential change of perspective. As George Guthrie writes in his review of Gushee’s book, Gushee later wrote a book about the process, Changing Our Mind (David Crum Media, 2014).
His sister came out and then he changed his mind. Gushee did not change his mind because of careful biblical exegesis and reflection. But after his younger sister came out as a lesbian in 2008, he changed his mind. David Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University, once held the classical Christian view that homosexual relationships are sinful.
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