My Bad

Thanks so much to each of you who've participated in this past week's conversation about the challenging question of homosexuality-and-faith.  It's been really noteworthy to me that, thus far, we've had quite a high degree of agreement here--maybe because we've done the pre-work of reading Andrew Marin's book together.  I'll very much look forward to keeping this conversation alive, particularly if we can learn from one another about actual ways forward.   Thanks so much.

That said, I think I got caught betwixt and between with my last post, which I've pulled from the blog.  Like a basketball player caught betwixt and between--deciding, say, to cut left when they've committed to go right--I may have snapped an ankle.

My mistake probably was in mentioning this article I was putting together before it had actually happened.  Once I mentioned it, when it turned out not to be helpful to run in the magazine in question, that left me feeling I owed it to you all to run it, just because I'd mentioned it.  The problem was how to do that without lobbying against or embarrassing the folks at the magazine in question, whom I respect entirely.  I entirely understand the reason why this article might not be helpful for its mission at the moment.  My thinking at the time was, while that was completely understandable, perhaps a setting like this one might be the place for whatever conversation it was hoping to get started.  The problem was that, at this point of the storyline, "the article" was tied up in its publication history, so it was hard to run neutrally.  So I think I was naive to post it--and in point of fact it's not clear that it says much that our previous entries haven't already touched on.

All to say, it seems to me I owe an apology to the good people at this magazine, Cutting Edge (a complete favorite of mine and a must-read each month--if you're not a reader and you like this blog, you should run not walk to get your subscription).  I one hundred percent understand and respect their decision in this case and have had endless history with all of  the folks involved, all of which has reinforced that we are absolute partners in these sorts of things. 

To reiterate: My bad. 

Tomorrow, another post.  Thanks again so much to each of you for such an engaging conversation this past week.

PS: I'm not especially trying to stop whatever conversation this article might engender.  I'm just sold that for the moment I've made this blog a particularly unsafe setting for it.  If you have any interest in the article, feel free to email Dan Littauer at dan@notreligious.org and he'd be happy to email it to you.