Was J Gay?

Contents:

• WAS J GAY?
• 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER INSTAGRAM STORI

WAS J GAY?

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.

'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI

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. He holds a doctorate gree Comparative Relign om Harvard, and he serv on the Natnal Advisory Board of the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi Relign. Oh, and he believ that J was gay.

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

I got touch wh Reverend Goss, who laid out the Biblil evince and explaed how his theory plays by Flickr er Wag for the World VICE: Was J Christ gay? Pl, I would say, would probably be scribed as a closeted homosexual today, but they didn't have those words at the was homosexualy perceived J's time?

Now, homoerotic relatnships the ancient world are really mon, pecially the Greek and Roman J himself ever addrs that? " J says about the fah of the Centurn, who is a homoerotic relatnship, that "there is no greater fah than I've enuntered Israel.

CHRISTIAN COLLEGE FIR GAY SOCCER COACH OVER INSTAGRAM STORI

" They're utterg this homoerotic phrase that was uttered by a Centurn an actual homosexual relatnship wh a youth.

But a church of the send century would unrstand that this is a homosexual relatnship and wasn't a big what evince is there the bible of J's homosexualy? But what this has to say is that there was some sort of homoerotic relatnship, a love seems that, like anythg else the Bible, you n draw your own nclns, cludg that J was gay. I once had a lbian stunt tell me, "J wasn't gay, he was perfect.

Now what they say about gays is we are trsilly evil and trsilly disorred. Even evangelils will say that J was perfect so that, orr to be saved for evangelils, you mt be heterosexual to be VICE News: Tears, Lghter, and Triumph for a Lbian Couple the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage CaseBut if J was gay, and he was perfect, then really 's only the gay people that are gog to heaven, right?