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Orthodoxy: Is This Really the Hill We Want to Die On?

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Ideological and Theological Battlegrounds Are Claiming Lives
 A Reflection on the Fear Beneath the Culture War Against LGBTQ People
 By Lisa Salazar, MAPPL, SHP **** One of the things that troubles me in conversations about gender identity, same-sex relationships, and scripture is the assumption that we can lift words, prohibitions, and social structures from 2,000 or 3,000 years ago and apply them directly to modern life as though nothing has changed. To me, that overlooks just how profoundly different their world was from ours. At best, it is careless history. At worst, it is cultural and intellectual arrogance. We are not living in the same intellectual, scientific, social, medical, or cultural universe as Paul, the writers of Leviticus, or the audiences who first heard these texts read aloud. The ancient world had no framework for human sexuality, orientation, genetics, hormones, fetal development, psychology, neurology, gender dysphoria, or intersex variations as we understand the...
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Not a Conversation, a Conclusion: Anti-Trans “Curiosity” as a Pattern, Not a Question

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  Why some questions aren’t meant to explore, but to convince. A message amplified as honest questions, with a conclusion already decided. (Image: AI-generated) A Familiar Shape Lately, I’ve been paying attention to a cluster of posts circulating on Facebook from my community here in Vancouver. They come from people who present themselves as defenders of free speech, asking questions others are supposedly afraid to ask. On the surface, that sounds reasonable. In a healthy society, we should be able to question ideas and examine evidence. But when you step back and look at the pattern over time, something else emerges. The posts tend to follow a consistent arc. A study is shared, often framed as groundbreaking or suppressed. A conclusion is implied, sometimes stated outright, that transgender people, especially trans women, are deceptive, dangerous, or mentally disordered. Supporting ideas are then layered in, including references to “autogynephilia,” claims about children being “gr...
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