A Netflix Christmas edy special which impli J was gay and Mary liked to smoke weed has sparked ntroversy.
Contents:
- WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
- 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
- WAS J GAY?
- GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
- J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
- 7 REASONS J WAS GAY
- GAY J
- THE JOURNEY OF A GAY J
- NETFLIX FACG BACKLASH OVER COMEDY SPECIAL WH GAY J
- DO GOD STILL LOVE ME IF I’M GAY?
- ‘GAY J’ AND A WEED-SMOKG MARY: BRAZILIAN CHRISTMAS PARODY ON NETFLIX SLAMMED BY PASTORS, POLICIANS
- CHURCH OF GAY J
- NETFLIX URGED TO REMOVE ‘GAY J’ FILM AFTER 1.8 LN SIGN PETN
- CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER INSTAGRAM STORI
WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
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In a 2012 article for Slate onle, Will Orem asked a provotive qutn: Was J a homophobe? The article was ocsned by a story about a gay teenager Oh who was sug his high school after school officials prohibed him om wearg a T-shirt that said, “J Is Not a Homophobe.
Orem suggts that J’s views on homosexualy were more clive than Pl’s. While ’s reasonable to assume that J and his fellow Jews first-century Palte would have disapproved of gay sex, there is no rerd of his ever havg mentned homosexualy, let alone exprsed particular revulsn about .... Never the Bible do J himself offer an explic prohibn of homosexualy.
'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
<p><strong>Pl Otreicher:</strong> I preached on Good Friday that J's timacy wh John suggted he was gay as I felt eply had to be addrsed</p> * gay jesus *
Orem seems to suggt that sce J never explicly mentned homosexualy, he mt not have been very ncerned about .
WAS J GAY?
If the J of History was gay, he mt have had someone to be gay wh. Who is the strongt ndidate for the role of J’ GBF. * gay jesus *
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It is credible to suggt that the words om J have no bearg on the qutn of homosexualy. So Orem has misnsted the relevance of J’s teachg to the homosexual qutn.
GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
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Even if J viewed homosexualy as a s, he had a penchant for reachg out to sners rather than shunng them....
In Romans 1, Pl nounced gay sex as unnatural—an egreg example of pagan nce—and said would brg the wrath of God. On the one si is J: peace-lovg, enemy-fivg, egalarian, and clive wh regard to homosexuals.
On the other si is Pl: war-lovg, ath penalty–supportg, patriarchal, and exclnary wh regard to homosexuals.
J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
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Dpe the hang-ups of people like Pl, J was not a homophobe. Wh clary and passn, this book sets forth the Bible’s teachg on sexualy om a plementarian perspective, alg wh ntroversial issu such as homosexualy and polygamy.
7 REASONS J WAS GAY
Sam Allberry livered a msage tled “Is God Anti-Gay?” sprgboardg om his own personal stggle wh homosexualy. * gay jesus *
Will Orem, “Wa, Was J a Homophobe? Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy.
Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God. Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice.
This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics.
GAY J
As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully. Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah. Their terpretatn of the story is that is about homosexualy.
Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex. Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn. The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn.
I felt I uld not pe the sufferg of gay and lbian people at the hands of the church, over many that divisive issue a subject for Good Friday? The evince, on the other hand, that he may have been what we today ll gay is very strong.
THE JOURNEY OF A GAY J
But even gay rights mpaigners the church have been reluctant to suggt .
NETFLIX FACG BACKLASH OVER COMEDY SPECIAL WH GAY J
He dared to suggt that possibily and was met wh disda, as though he were simply out to much reflectn and wh certaly no wish to shock, I felt I was left wh no optn but to suggt, for the first time half a century of my Anglin prithood, that J may well have been homosexual. Heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual: J uld have been any of the. The homosexual optn simply seems the most likely.
Although there is no rabbic tradn of celibacy, J uld well have chosen to rea om sexual activy, whether he was gay or not.
I saw as an act of penence for the sufferg and persecutn of homosexual people that still persists many parts of the church. Whether J was gay or straight no way affects who he was and what he means for the world today.
DO GOD STILL LOVE ME IF I’M GAY?
What matters this ntext is that there are many gay and lbian followers of J – ordaed and lay – who, spe the church, remarkably and humbly rema s fahful members. Many who support same-sex marriage and gay rights argue that, sce J never mentned homosexualy, He did not nsir to be sful.
After all, the argument go, if homosexualy is bad, why did J treat as a non-issue? It is technilly te that J did not specifilly addrs homosexualy the Gospel acunts; however, He did speak clearly about sexualy general. The pot is that J did not need to emize s, pecially when the further revelatn ntaed the Epistl remov all doubt as to homosexualy’s sfulns.
‘GAY J’ AND A WEED-SMOKG MARY: BRAZILIAN CHRISTMAS PARODY ON NETFLIX SLAMMED BY PASTORS, POLICIANS
In addn, unbelievers who practice homosexualy stand need of salvatn jt like any other unbeliever.
Christians are lled to pray for those who do not know Christ, to serve others love, and to share the msage of J wh all people, cludg those volved homosexualy.
If homosexualy is a s, why didn’t J ever mentn ? Durg Holy Week many LGBT Christians and their alli fd spiratn “The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn, ” a ntroversial seri of patgs that are newly available as a book.
CHURCH OF GAY J
The imag show J as a gay man of today a morn cy. A surprisgly diverse group of iends jo the gay J on a journey om sufferg to eedom.
” But none has had as much impact as Blanchard’s gay Passn of Christ patgs. A gay J on the cross is tend to broan, not lim how Christ is perceived. Every group envisns Christ based on their own ntext, and now there is a gay visn of J, shaped by the polil, enomic and cultural forc of our time.
The church directly or directly ed the executn of thoands for homosexualy over a perd of 700 years. Blanchard says that their morn unterparts—such as LGBT people murred gay bashgs, driven to suici, or killed by AIDS—were on his md as he pated “J Di. Blanchard’s J don’t look obvly gay.
NETFLIX URGED TO REMOVE ‘GAY J’ FILM AFTER 1.8 LN SIGN PETN
His sexual orientatn only be clear when he receiv a homoerotic embrace while ascendg to unn wh God.
CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER INSTAGRAM STORI
The most recent battle epted this week when Huffgton Post ran my article on the gay Passn of Christ. Those who were rejected by the church for homosexualy may fd that the gay J wel and unrstands them. Like the patgs, the book is tled “The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn.
Many nmn the gay Passn of Christ patgs as blasphemy, but I see them as a blsg that builds fah and a better society. Image: “J Di” by Doug Blanchard, The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn. After the Supreme Court's historic lg on gay marriage, seemed like all the proudly homophobic Christians me out of the woodwork to talk about how much they still hate gay people.
As a straight Jew, the homophobia amongst J's followers has always stck me as a b of a surprise: Worshippg at the feet of a ripped, hung man, seems at least a ltle homoerotic. But 's J himself who lights up my gaydar like a Christmas tree. Reverend Bob Shore-Goss, an openly gay senr pastor, has wrten several books on the subject, cludg Queerg Christ and J ACTED UP: A Gay and Lbian Manifto.