Love it or hate it, if you grew up in a youth group after , you probably had to reckon with Joshua Harris’s I Kissed Dating Goodbye, his treatise on dating and book sold.
The decision — and the later identification of other characters, like Nathan Miller (Jarod Joseph), as gay — was simply world-building, and solely within the world of The
While Benedict is straight in the books, the show has been playing with the idea of his sexuality since the first season, giving the fans a strong reason to believe that he is not entirely straight.