On Personhood, Sexuality, and Phil Robertson
It hasn't been a good week for evangelical Christianity in terms of media attention. Instead of continuing a long discourse on these topics that will no doubt add to the bewildering amount of chatter surrounding Phil Robertson's controversial statements , I'd like to draw attention to one post from an artist I admire. Her name is Audrey Assad, and you might recognize her modestly beautiful voice singing alongside such fellow CCM giants as Chris Tomlin and Matt Maher. She summarizes her perspective with clarity and draws an important distinction between herself and the voices coming to the aid of Robertson's vitriol: I want to uphold the dignity of each human life—and as a part of that commitment, I strive to resist the tendency to reduce people to their sexual drives, homosexual or heterosexual or otherwise. Phil Robertson’s perspective on the morals of homosexual marriage may overlap with mine, but I do not arrive at my conclusions about that, or my beliefs abo