text: Hi, ATF - I think we have to recognize that no one has done the heavy lifting involved in developing a theology of  homosexuality, for want of a better word. I have read some sketchy attempts based on a lot of presuppositions, but nothing that would convince a traditional believer, let alone bishop, that the story of salvation embraces same-sex experience. It's one thing to argue that people with same-sex attraction have a right to sit at the same table as anyone else. It's another to argue that divine revelation has to be reworked to accommodate same-sex believers, especially if the evidence were to show that most same-sex individuals would have little or no use for the faith even if it were possible to accommodate them.
  What I'm trying to say is that the same-sex cause went forward politically without worrying about developing a new and inclusive Christian anthropology, and I'm not sure the cause can go any further unless someone does that.