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• 7 REASONS J WAS GAY
• 20 GAY GREEK GODS
• GOD IS GAYELLT DARROWPRODUCED BYBUTTON POETRY20131 VIEWER16.6K VIEWS7 CONTRIBUTORSGOD IS GAY LYRICSWHAT IF I TOLD YOU GOD IS GAY?DO YOU THK BELLIGERENT BIBLE-BELTERSWOULD STILL HOLLER HATE SPEECH TO THE HILLTOPSIN HIS NAME?OR DO YOU THK THEY WOULD REREAD THE SCRIPTURTHEY SAY THEY SWEAR AND SURVIVE BYSEE, I’VE BEEN READG THE BIBLE AGA LATELYAND I THK I’VE TAKEN A LEAF OM THEIR HOLY BOOK,PICKG PASSAG FOR MY PURPOSEWHICH IS SHORTTO LET YOU KNOW ’S VERY POSSIBLE GOD IS GAY.I MEAN THK ABOUT THE BOOK OF GENISIN THE BEGNG GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTHAND WASN’T JT GOOD, WAS FABULO.I MEAN WHAT ELSE IS OUR PLA BUT THE PNACLEOF EXTERR SIGN, AND I DON’T MEAN TO GENERALIZEBUT CERTALY SEEMS LIKE THAT THE GARN OF ENWAS SIGNED BY QUEER, I MEAN DIVE EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUYBUT SOME CHRISTIANS WOULD GO AS FAR AS TO LLGOD’S CREATNS ABOMATNSHERETICS LLG THEMSELV FAHFULWHEN THEIR FAH IS FULL OF BELIEF THAT ONLY GOD MAY PASS JUDGMENTMATTHEW 7:1 JUDGE AND YOU TOO SHALL BE JUDGEDLE 6: 37 CONMN NOT AND YOU SHALL NOT BE NMNEDFRED PHELPS 2006: YOU’RE GOG TO HELL! GOD HAT FAGS!A HISTORY LSON: A FAGGOT IS A BUNDLE OF STICKSORIGALLY ED AS KDLG FOR FIR THAT ENGULFED GAYSWHEN THEY WERE BURNED AT THE STAKE, PEOPLE WERE FIREWOODBUT MOS ME ACROSS WOOD ON FIRE AND SAW GOD ,WHAT IS A BURNG BH BUT BUNDL OF BRANCHON FIRE, ISN’T FUNNY HOW FAGGOTS AND GOD N LOOK THE SAME SOMETIM?KEEP MD J HAD TWO DADS AND TURNED OUT JT FEIN FACT, J HAD TWO DADS AND A SURROGATE MOTHERTHAT NEVER HAD SEX WH EHER OF THEM,MAYBE MARY WAS A LBIANAND I REMEMBER THE PRAYER GOG“HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE”NOT FULL OF S,“PRAY FOR SNERS”FOR WE HAVE BEE BLD BY BIGOTRY.AND FOTTEN THAT GOD GAVE THE RABOWAS A PROMISE THAT WE WILL NEVER BE FLOOD AGAEHER WH RA OR IGNORANCEAND NOW ALL THE HOMOSEXUAL HOMO SAPIENSSTAND MORE UNED UNR GOD’S RABOWTHAN ALL OF HIS NOMATNS DO AROUND THE CROSS.I WAS BROUGHT UP BELIEVG THAT MY SAVR LOVED ALLAND NEVER HAD TO SPECIFY “NO HOMO”BUT IF YOU HAVE HATE YOUR HEARTSAY DON’T PRAY DON’T TEACH AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T PREACH BEE I AM TIRED OF THE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE SERMONSSLGG SLURS WHEN THEY’RE NOT FIRG BRIMSTONFROM VOIC THAT SHOULD BE FILLED WH LOVE AND PRAISEINSTEAD OF RAISED WH HATE AND RAGEI AM A CHRISTIAN, AND I BELIEVE SAYG THE CHRISTIAN THG.WHICH ED TO SOUND LIKE “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF”BUT NOW SOUNDS MORE LIKE HATE AT THE TOP OF YOUR PICKET SIGNSTHE CLOST THG TO GOD BEG “HELL, IS WAG FOR YOU”THEY’RE PASSG OUT DAMNATN PAMPHLETSFILLED WH OUT-OF-NTEXT BIBLE VERSTRYG TO FE GODWHEN HIS MEANG IS CLEAR.HE IS ACCEPTANCE, HE IS PRI, HE IS HUY, HE IS JT,GOD IS PERFECTN, GOD IS PROTECTN, GOD IS LOVE,BUT MOST IMPORTANTLYGOD IS GAY7EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTGENI ANNOTATN1 EXPAND +11SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “GOD IS GAY” BY ELLT DARROW?WHEN DID ELLT DARROW RELEASE “GOD IS GAY”?WHO WROTE “GOD IS GAY” BY ELLT DARROW?CREDSPRODUCED BYBUTTON POETRYWRTEN BYELLT DARROWRELEASE DATE2013TAGSNON-MICLGBTQ+RELIGNSPOKEN WORDPOETRYLERATUREEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE
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7 REASONS J WAS GAY

That’s right, the man who died for your ss may very well have been a homosexual. This is somethg that gay men are notor for.

20 GAY GREEK GODS

A gay cupbearer on Mount Olymp? While tolerance is often prented as a sign of civilizatn's advancement, a readg of Greek mythology reveals greater acceptance of homosexualy ancient Athens than n be boasted wh today's world religns.

The LGBT Greek gods and migods prove gay culture is no morn ventn. While Homer never explicly stat a gay relatnship between Achill and sikick Patrocl, many scholars read a romantic nnectn between the two, as only Patrocl ever drew out a passnate si to the famoly arrogant warrr. Rearcher Johanna Hypatia-Cybelaia wr that lbian and gay vote worshipped her as Artemis Orthia, and that lbian port Pamphilia referred to the godss hymn as Artemis Pergaea.

Above: Athena, center, a mural by John Sger SargentAphrodeWhile the godss of love is not intified promently as lbian herself, the Greek poet Sappho (as sapphic) of Lbos (y, as lbian) told many homoerotic tal and named Aphrode as the greatt patron and ally of lbians and homosexuals wh the Greek pantheon of gods. Above: Enrique Simo, El Juic Paris (1904)ErosWhile the bt-known myths of Eros pict the son of Aphrode as a fertily god -- the versn that proved spiratnal to the popularized Roman god Cupid -- later Greek myths portrayed Eros as one of several wged erot, and the one regard as a protector of homosexual culture, acrdg to rearch the scholarly book Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic the Ancient World. What did Kurt mean by "God Is Gay"?

GOD IS GAYELLT DARROWPRODUCED BYBUTTON POETRY20131 VIEWER16.6K VIEWS7 CONTRIBUTORSGOD IS GAY LYRICSWHAT IF I TOLD YOU GOD IS GAY?DO YOU THK BELLIGERENT BIBLE-BELTERSWOULD STILL HOLLER HATE SPEECH TO THE HILLTOPSIN HIS NAME?OR DO YOU THK THEY WOULD REREAD THE SCRIPTURTHEY SAY THEY SWEAR AND SURVIVE BYSEE, I’VE BEEN READG THE BIBLE AGA LATELYAND I THK I’VE TAKEN A LEAF OM THEIR HOLY BOOK,PICKG PASSAG FOR MY PURPOSEWHICH IS SHORTTO LET YOU KNOW ’S VERY POSSIBLE GOD IS GAY.I MEAN THK ABOUT THE BOOK OF GENISIN THE BEGNG GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTHAND WASN’T JT GOOD, WAS FABULO.I MEAN WHAT ELSE IS OUR PLA BUT THE PNACLEOF EXTERR SIGN, AND I DON’T MEAN TO GENERALIZEBUT CERTALY SEEMS LIKE THAT THE GARN OF ENWAS SIGNED BY QUEER, I MEAN DIVE EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUYBUT SOME CHRISTIANS WOULD GO AS FAR AS TO LLGOD’S CREATNS ABOMATNSHERETICS LLG THEMSELV FAHFULWHEN THEIR FAH IS FULL OF BELIEF THAT ONLY GOD MAY PASS JUDGMENTMATTHEW 7:1 JUDGE AND YOU TOO SHALL BE JUDGEDLE 6: 37 CONMN NOT AND YOU SHALL NOT BE NMNEDFRED PHELPS 2006: YOU’RE GOG TO HELL! GOD HAT FAGS!A HISTORY LSON: A FAGGOT IS A BUNDLE OF STICKSORIGALLY ED AS KDLG FOR FIR THAT ENGULFED GAYSWHEN THEY WERE BURNED AT THE STAKE, PEOPLE WERE FIREWOODBUT MOS ME ACROSS WOOD ON FIRE AND SAW GOD ,WHAT IS A BURNG BH BUT BUNDL OF BRANCHON FIRE, ISN’T FUNNY HOW FAGGOTS AND GOD N LOOK THE SAME SOMETIM?KEEP MD J HAD TWO DADS AND TURNED OUT JT FEIN FACT, J HAD TWO DADS AND A SURROGATE MOTHERTHAT NEVER HAD SEX WH EHER OF THEM,MAYBE MARY WAS A LBIANAND I REMEMBER THE PRAYER GOG“HAIL MARY, FULL OF GRACE”NOT FULL OF S,“PRAY FOR SNERS”FOR WE HAVE BEE BLD BY BIGOTRY.AND FOTTEN THAT GOD GAVE THE RABOWAS A PROMISE THAT WE WILL NEVER BE FLOOD AGAEHER WH RA OR IGNORANCEAND NOW ALL THE HOMOSEXUAL HOMO SAPIENSSTAND MORE UNED UNR GOD’S RABOWTHAN ALL OF HIS NOMATNS DO AROUND THE CROSS.I WAS BROUGHT UP BELIEVG THAT MY SAVR LOVED ALLAND NEVER HAD TO SPECIFY “NO HOMO”BUT IF YOU HAVE HATE YOUR HEARTSAY DON’T PRAY DON’T TEACH AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T PREACH BEE I AM TIRED OF THE FIRE AND BRIMSTONE SERMONSSLGG SLURS WHEN THEY’RE NOT FIRG BRIMSTONFROM VOIC THAT SHOULD BE FILLED WH LOVE AND PRAISEINSTEAD OF RAISED WH HATE AND RAGEI AM A CHRISTIAN, AND I BELIEVE SAYG THE CHRISTIAN THG.WHICH ED TO SOUND LIKE “LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF”BUT NOW SOUNDS MORE LIKE HATE AT THE TOP OF YOUR PICKET SIGNSTHE CLOST THG TO GOD BEG “HELL, IS WAG FOR YOU”THEY’RE PASSG OUT DAMNATN PAMPHLETSFILLED WH OUT-OF-NTEXT BIBLE VERSTRYG TO FE GODWHEN HIS MEANG IS CLEAR.HE IS ACCEPTANCE, HE IS PRI, HE IS HUY, HE IS JT,GOD IS PERFECTN, GOD IS PROTECTN, GOD IS LOVE,BUT MOST IMPORTANTLYGOD IS GAY7EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUTGENI ANNOTATN1 EXPAND +11SHAREASK A QUTN ABOUT THIS SONGASK A QUTN *‌WHO PRODUCED “GOD IS GAY” BY ELLT DARROW?WHEN DID ELLT DARROW RELEASE “GOD IS GAY”?WHO WROTE “GOD IS GAY” BY ELLT DARROW?CREDSPRODUCED BYBUTTON POETRYWRTEN BYELLT DARROWRELEASE DATE2013TAGSNON-MICLGBTQ+RELIGNSPOKEN WORDPOETRYLERATUREEXPAND COMMENTSADD A MENTSIGN UP AND DROP KNOWLEDGE ?GENI IS THE ULTIMATE SOURCE OF MIC KNOWLEDGE, CREATED BY SCHOLARS LIKE YOU WHO SHARE FACTS AND SIGHT ABOUT THE SONGS AND ARTISTS THEY LOVE.SIGN UPGENI IS THE WORLD’S BIGGT LLECTN OF SONG LYRICS AND MIL KNOWLEDGE

As a teenager, Kurt Coba beiend a homosexual stunt at school, and suffered bullyg om heterosexual stunts who nclud that Coba was gay. In an terview he said that he liked havg the inty of beg gay bee he did not like people and when they thought he was gay they left him alone.

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He stated, “I started beg really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t”. His iend tried to kiss him and Coba backed away and told his iend he was not gay but would still be iends wh him. In a 1993 terview wh The Advote, Coba claimed that he was “gay spir” and “probably uld be bisexual.