Because if the devil made me do it, then I don’t have to face the reality that perhaps I made me do it. It’s all so ripe for abuse, and some of my parishioners, Asher included, had fallen victim to other Christians trying to cast out the so-called demon of homosexuality, as though spiritual warfare and culture wars are one in the same. So when I felt like I might need to talk about demonic forces the Sunday of Asher’s naming, it made me uncomfortable.
