The 'Canceling' of LGBTQ Affirming Pastors

Pastors who affirm same-sex relationships face dire consequences. Why don't their stories seem to matter?

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Earlier this week, Emma Green wrote a piece about the “Thought Criminals” — an invite-only group of people who meet for drinks and snacks a couple times a month in NYC. These people claim to have nothing in common besides the courage to cross the woke moralists who police our society’s discourse channels. They’ve all been “canceled.”

The fact that all these “canceled” people all seem to be doing extraordinarily well for themselves is an irony that is lost on them. One Harvard grad says she was “canceled” for writing a student op-ed against affirmative action. She’s now 31 years old and has a “dream job” running her own copywriting company and doing some standup comedy on the side. Another guy makes a living posting crude Tiktoks mocking trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney. He’s got fifteen comedy gigs a week. Nick Gillespie is editor-at-large for libertarian rag Reason. Michael Thad Allen and Samantha Harris are co-owners of a law firm. To paraphrase Tevye, “if this is being canceled, may the Lord smite me with it, and may I never recover.”