Three years ago he announced that the Dating book was a “huge mistake,” and he’s been apologizing ever since, giving speeches around the country, including a TED talk, and expressing endless regrets on social media. Well, Joshua has now left his wife and come out as gay, and he’s done it with quite a bit of fanfare. One blockbuster was the 1997 book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, by Joshua Harris, an evangelical pastor at the Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland. If the “sexual purity” movement has escaped your gaze, suffice it to say it is a Christian campaign that’s all about virginity and sexual abstinence until marriage, and it has millions of adherents and generates bestselling books.
