Episode 70: All About Side B Christianity

I came to terms with my sexuality about 30 years ago when I was in my twenties. Because I was a Christian, I wanted to understand what it meant to be from a biblical perspective. One of the most formative books I read was Is the Homosexual My Neighbor by Virigina Ramey Mollenkott and Letha Dawson Scanzoni. It provided a theological understanding of being and it helped me understand that God accepted who I was as a man. That led me to ultimately find a good man that became my husband when we married in 2007.

When I looked at the scriptures that were used to prohibit same sexual relations, I came to see them as misinterpretations or laws that were no longer in force. But there are Christians who see themselves as but take the prohibitions against literally.

These people have a name: Side B Christians. Many of these people come from more traditional or conservative backgrounds. Side B Christians can be misunderstood by “Side A” Christians or Christians who are in same- relationships and are feared by straight people in conservative denominations. Today, I talk with a Side B Christian about his journey and the journey of compatriots. Wes Hill is the Assistant Priest at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Pittsburgh, PA and an Associate Professor in New Testament at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI.

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Show Notes:

Side B Christians Like Me Are An Asset Not a Threat by Bekah Mason

What Comes After the Ex- Movement? The Same Thing That Came Before. By Greg Johnson

Revoice and the Vocation of Yes by Wes Hill

Love, Again by Wes Hill

Beyond religious life and marriage: A look at friendship as vocation by Eve Tushnet

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