More on David Gushee, discrimination, and middle ground

A follow-up to this post:   David Gushee insists, in this (strikingly defensive and sarcastic) "response to his critics," that he was only describing the "collapse of middle ground" on LGBT issues and religious freedom, and predicting various developments, in this post.  Decide for yourself, of course, but I think his original post pretty clearly reads like he's welcoming and endorsing what he's describing.  In any event, this response, by George Guthrie (Gushee's former colleague at Union University) is worth a read.  Guthrie asks, in a John-Inazu-esque vein, "[i]s it possible to embrace appropriate distinctions between social equality and uniformity of beliefs?"  I hope so.