How do I make sure that my contribution to the discussion of marriage equality properly accounts for my Christian faith? Instead of having the discussion in a vacuum, where words and ideas can be analyzed outside of experience, I make sure that my analysis runs directly through experience, and most importantly, through the experience of the suffering. Relative to this discussion, there is no more appropriate voice to include than that of the LGBT community, those whose experience has been objectified in “our” discussions of “their” rights.
William Myatt
William Myatt is an adjunct lecturer in theology at Lewis University in Romeoville, Illinois. He received his doctorate in theology from Loyola University Chicago in December, 2012. Prior to entering the doctoral program at Loyola, he served as a pastor for six years in Omaha, Nebraska.
