The rainbow of religious belief: extremist thinking doesn’t work

There are as many expressions of religious faith as there are of gender and sexuality

'SOME PEOPLE ARE GAY. GET OVER IT.' That slogan was posted on London buses in 2012. It was aimed at some Christian groups who understood human sexuality not as a spectrum of many shades but as a stark choice between right and wrong, the permitted and the forbidden.

Many of us are prone to this kind of binary reductionism, but it is amplified and exaggerated by religion, because its favourite discourse is the adversarial. You are either for it or against it. There's nothing in between.