RNS

(RNS) Middle ground is disappearing on the question of whether LGBT persons should be treated as full equals, without any discrimination in society — and on the related question of whether religious institutions should be allowed to continue discriminating due to their doctrinal beliefs.

It turns out that you are either for full and unequivocal social and legal equality for LGBT people, or you are against it, and your answer will at some point be revealed. This is true both for individuals and for institutions.

Neutrality is not an option. Neither is polite half-acceptance. Nor is avoiding the subject. Hide as you might, the issue will come and find you.

• Dreher
• Jake Meador
• Gushee’s response to critics
• Alan Jacobs “what did you mean by ‘voluntarily’?”
• Denny Burk
• Andrew Walker
• Roger Olsen: full scale collapse of governmental religious toleration
• Preserving the Middle Ground