Denny Burk at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has an excellent opinion piece here on the errors of moral reasoning that happens far more frequently than we realize. Often embedded in faulty reasoning is the failure to exercise theological triage and differentiate primary doctrines. Additionally, one must differentiate what is necessary for orthodoxy with what is sufficient for orthodoxy. The failure to do so can be catastrophic. Don’t confuse “what is necessary for orthodoxy with what is sufficient for orthodoxy. Is conformity to the Nicene Creed necessary for orthodoxy? Of course. But is the Creed by itself sufficient to for orthodoxy? Of course it is not. And it has been that way from the earliest days of the Christian Church. Pelagius, after all, affirmed the Nicene Creed, and yet he was condemned as a heretic at the Council of Ephesus in AD 431. His errors on other doctrines were enough to seal this judgment against him.

And so it is with homosexuality and transgenderism. These are not issues about which otherwise faithful Christians may agree to disagree. Transgender expression is an abomination (Deuteronomy 22:5). Unrepentant homosexuality and gay marriage are sufficient by themselves to keep people out of the kingdom and under the wrath of God (Ephesians 5:5-6). Telling people otherwise is to lay a stumbling block of the first order and comes with a judgment all its own (Matthew 18:7).“