What are “queer theologians” “reading into” Scripture — and why?
Despite their flagrant lack of interpretive integrity, “queer theologians” do demand to be taken seriously, as evidenced by their constant pressure for full acceptance of “gayness” in academia and in mainstream religious life. And their demands force us to confront still another crucial question: If “queer theologians” are indeed passing off eisegesis as interpretation, what ideas are they “reading into” Scripture, and why are they doing so? First, as we have seen, “queer theologians” insist that homosexuality is “natural”; most also insist that “gayness” is inborn and immutable. Second, “queer theologians” insist that homosexuality and homosexuals have been oppressed and persecuted due to faulty readings of Scripture, and that homosexuals have been unjustly excluded from deserved “places at the tables” of religious fellowship and general participation in society. If we examine the implications of these assertions, it may easily be discovered that “queer theology’s” major tenets coinci
