There is a third option, taken by liberal theologians, which is to “reinterpret” what Paul meant. There are plenty of articles online that attempt to do this, and make him not anti-gay.

This does of course call into question why they even bother. Can’t we just dump the book and take up something better as our preferred inspiration?

The Devil’s Syllogism:

(1) Homosexuality is not a choice (obviously – is heterosexuality a choice?)
(2) Paul condemns homosexual acts (Romans 1:18-32)
(3) Therefore, either God is EVIL, or else we have to throw out all of Paul’s writings as merely arbitrary prejudices and musings, rather than the inspired word of God.

Oh, we none of us get paid anything worth making a decision over. That simply isn’t a thing for by far most bloggers anywhere. I earn through the generous support of patrons, who would probably fund my work anywhere.

And I’ve actually been writing on social justice issues for years, not just the last year.

But The Orbit is organizing differently. That’s kind of the point of it. Its members will be more activist and involved in organizing and coordinating behind the scenes, and serving their focus. I haven’t the time to dedicate to the back end like that (I never have). FtB is more a place for lone wolves who vaguely agree on some things. My primary focus is also still philosophy, history, and counter-apologetics, not social justice. I just happen to also write on feminism, polyamory, and social justice as well.

And we needed some of that to stick around here anyway. In a sense I’m one of the soldiers holding this hill while they take another.

This place is the best fit for me. But I’m already a big fan of The Orbit. They onboarded a lot of cool people. And have several of my favorite bloggers. So it is definitely now one of the top three sites I’ll check up on regularly (FtB, The Orbit, and Skepchick).

I would like some new polyamory bloggers at FtB, though! Hopefully we can onboard a few before year’s end.

With the new direction that your blog has taken in the past year, I’m surprised that you didn’t go to The Orbit too. It almost seems like it would be a better fit for your blog there. Why did you end up staying put? Is the pay better here at FTB?