In 2013, Glennon Doyle wrote, “I know my Jesus, I love Him, and I think if he needed me to believe that homosexuality was a sin, He would have mentioned it.”[13] This is a popular idea: homosexuality isn’t a sin because Jesus never said it is. But this argument is illogical, a misrepresentation of Jesus, and a misunderstanding of Scripture. It’s illogical because the absence of condemnation doesn’t equal support. Just because we don’t see Jesus mentioning homosexuality by name in the Gospels—just as we don’t see him mentioning, say, sex trafficking or torturing animals—doesn’t mean he supports
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