Sexuality, Religion, and Authority: Toward Reframing Estrangement

Abstract

This paper proposes that the difficulty some religious traditions have with homosexuality represents a crisis of authority within those religions. Sources of religious authority are usually categorized as scripture, tradition, and reason; some traditions add experience. The paper reconstructs the religious debate into a possibly irreconcilable dialogue between closed (tribal) and open (individualistic) societies. Social work, a construction of an open society, must be interested in this debate because of the impact on society, families, and individuals, and may support both lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons as well as religious conservatives by reframing the debate.

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