Thanks for your response. I appreciate it. I know you're a person of good will and good faith.

But I am going to pull my basic questions out of the welter of text, since you haven't responded to them yet.

1. To what extent do you have actual, personal experience knowing Christian and non-Christian same-sex couples on, let's say, a first-name basis?

2. Why are you happy cbf doesn't call itself a church? (I am hoping you will rule out the paranoid default answer, which is that sexual minorities are unworthy to organize churches. Sorry, there could be many other reasons, but as an old gay lib hack, one of my tasks is to wrestle with sexuality-based self-hatred and self-deprecation whenever I see it.)