The casuist asks, why is that different? How the biblical directive to give to the poor, a teaching that has been at the centre of christian practice for two thousand years, somehow less essential than being straight? If you fire people for one sort of rule violation, why aren't you firing them for another? After his initial response to the pulse shooting, martin wrote an article on the church in the gay community and then a book. What's strange about reading both is you keep waiting for the other sho to drop.