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Hello, welcome to Straight Wide American Jesus. I'm Brad Onishi, faculty and

religion, Skidmore College, our shows hosted in partnership with the CapCenter at UCSB.

I want to just have a very brief episode today to respond one more time to Timothy Keller,

and after this I am done. I think it's time to be done with all of this, but for those of you

who have been following on Twitter, Timothy Keller, who is part of the Gospel Coalition

and a minister, pastor, Presbyterian leader in New York City with half a million Twitter

followers, has been posting some incredibly provocative as a nice word to say,

tweets about sexuality and community and self-hood.

And so one more response, and then I think we're going to be all done.

Yesterday, Chrissy Stroop, friend of the program, published a great article at Religion Dispatches

on Keller's tweets, and I am quoted in the piece, just full disclosure.

But one of the things that Chrissy tweeted today is this in response to Keller that

when certain beliefs are enforced in a cultural and institutional structure, human experiences

that don't fit into the prefab abstract framework lead not only to the erasure of those

who can't fit in, but also to violence against us.

So Chrissy is responding to a number of things, but the baseline of Keller's tweets started

about a week and a half ago when he said that sex outside of lifelong heterosexual marriage is dehumanizing.

And so Chrissy is saying that, look, you have a certain structure here about human experience

that lifelong heterosexual marriage is the only place for sex, and if that is not the case,

then it's a dehumanizing experience.

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