Will Owen Strachan Own His Straw Man?

In a recent blog post, Owen Strachan took aim at the Revoice Conference and me in particular. (Link here.)
I have some lingering questions.

1. Strachan, you say: “There is no righteousness in a believer, a truly born-again Christian, identifying as “bisexual.” This identification alone would not qualify a man or woman to serve at a Vacation Biblical School event, let alone instruct the church on sexual ethics.”

What is the argument here? I would not suggest that *simply identifying as bisexual* should qualify one to teach VBS; that would be foolishness. Perhaps you mean to say that such an identification ought to *disqualify* one. If so, you would need to supply an argument here.

2. You equivocate between “homosexual” as “one who has a same-sex orientation” and as “one who engages in same-sex sexual activity.” Is it likely that I Cor 6 has the former in mind, when the category of “sexual orientation” had not yet been invented?

3. If your interpretation is correct, it seems to prove rather too much, in that men & women with homosexual orientations go to hell & cannot hope in Christ unless they are made straight before death. Is it your contention that straightness is necessary for salvation in this way?

4. Do you think it’s fair to take Brian and Monica’s story as representative? Would one person’s conversion out of the SBC prove—or even suggest—that being a Baptist is wrong?

5. Classically in the Christian tradition, sins have been understood to involve the will; therefore, considering a desire a sin would be seen as a simple category error. Are you comfortable with (1) departing from the tradition and (2) making the necessary theological-anthropological and soteriogical/hamartiological revisions your view requires?

6. Your arguments and assertions evidence a lack of critical engagement with the actual positions and arguments of Side-B thinkers. Would you accept from your students critiques of a view they had not taken the trouble to understand?