'Christainity too often offers a "one-size-fits-all" condemnation of homosexuality. It's no surprise that such ethereal ethics, mismatched with the culture into which they speak, are poorly accepted. Telling same-sex attracted people to just stop sinning sexually often doesn't even make sense; it's like a missionary preaching in English to a non-English speaking group, doggedly refusing to use the local language. Doing theology and ethics without consideration for social construction is not only inaccurate, it is destructive. It hurts sexual minorities who are already discrinimated against, and its hurts heterosexual Christians by supporting their collective delusion of moral superiority. Christians sometimes rush to make ethical judgments about elements of the world, too quickly assuming that something like sexual identity is fixed, inborn and present in Bible times in the same ways it's present today. Considering the social construction of sexual identity challenges those assumptioons and changes our picture of sexuality.'
Jenell Williams Paris, The End of Sexual Identity, p.75.
