J as an openly gay man | Michael Re | The Guardian

Contents:

• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• WAS J GAY?
• 7 REASONS J WAS GAY
• 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

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.

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

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.

Orem seems to suggt that sce J never explicly mentned homosexualy, he mt not have been very ncerned about . Get a ee py of the ebook ‘What Do the Bible Really Teach about Homosexualy?

It is credible to suggt that the words om J have no bearg on the qutn of homosexualy.

WAS J GAY?

So Orem has misnsted the relevance of J’s teachg to the homosexual qutn. Even if J viewed homosexualy as a s, he had a penchant for reachg out to sners rather than shunng them....

7 REASONS J WAS GAY

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. 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.

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

Will Orem, “Wa, Was J a Homophobe?