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@mlbolangerauthor Echoing what others have said, I think the biggest reason Christians books don’t deal in these topics is because they would involve a lot of research. I think the biggest danger in these areas are straw man arguments. That is when someone assigns me an opinion that is not my own, then judges me based off of that opinion. For example, if someone, over the course of a debate, said “All Christians hate LGBT people”, I would stop listening, and it would actually turn me against whatever else they say, no matter how reasonable or knowledgeable the rest of their argument was. (That stuff is a sin, but we are all sinners, and all in need of grace.) Then there is the additional danger that someone who doesn’t know better listens to that and now walks around under the mistaken assumption that Christians hate LGBT people, which would hinder us from having a useful dialogue about the truth.

The example I gave reflects poorly on non-Christians, but Christians can and sometimes do use straw arguments against non-Christians, which turns people who know better away, and prevents understanding of the true issue. This, plus the amount of research involved, research that probably would need to involve talking to someone victimized by whatever the topic is—which would be painful to talk about, is why there aren’t many books on controversial topics.