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I consider myself an affirming Christian. For one, I have friends who are either gay or bisexual, so homosexuality doesn’t bother me — even as a Christian. I’ve been around gay people for a long time, and would like to think I’m pretty comfortable around them. Two, if you know anything about me, you’ll know that I don’t like being judged for who I am, so, in turn, I try to practice the same way of being with other people. True, I can be judgemental at times. I’m not perfect. However, I try to keep my judgements to myself, and whenever I encounter someone that I don’t like upon first contact, I try to remind myself that that person is God’s creation, too, and keep in mind Jesus�� command to love thy neighbour.

Still, it’s refreshing when a book like UnClobber comes along. I wasn’t particularly aware of the details of the so-called “Clobber Passages” — five or six verses or chapters in the Bible that are used mainly by conservative Christians to denounce homosexuality as a sin — but I knew the Bible had something to say about sexual orientations. To that end, UnClobber and its unpacking of those Bible passages was particularly illuminating for me. It told me what those passages were, and why they might not be saying what everyone thinks they might be saying.

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