'Was J Gay?’: The Class Unverg Hidn Queer Histori

Contents:

• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• WHAT IF J WERE GAY?
• 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
• 'WHAT IF J WAS GAY?': BRYAN MCPHERSON'S CONTROVERSIAL SONG
• WAS J GAY?
• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• 7 REASONS J WAS GAY

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

The most astoundg fdg om the newly disvered lead dic is that J Christ was unambiguoly and openly gay. It seems clear now that this is ls a negative repudiatn of fay and more a posive exhortatn to jo affirmatn of a gay liftyle and is at least one new parable, that of the two young men. Before, one might have thought that, given Mary's virgy, Joseph's attu was reflectg the ambigui of his stat the fay; but now seems more probable that we have here a classic example of the Frdian triangle: over-posssive mother, hostile father, gay have we known so ltle about all of this before?

The classilly ted Pl, who was himself gay, saw that same-sex activy was imil to the succs of Christiany the highly homophobic societi which he lived. In my homtate, Kentucky, at my alma mater, Geetown College, Berry spoke about gay marriage. At one pot Berry stated, “When I nsir the hostily of polil church to homosexualy and homosexual marriage, I do so rememberg the history of Christian war, torture, terror, slavery and annihilatn agast Jews, Mlims, black Ains, Amerin Indians and others.

We have yet to see J as the homosexual. Many see homosexualy as a threat to their way of life. What if J said, “When I was hungry, you fed me; when I was naked, you clothed me; when I was the homosexual, you weled me.

WHAT IF J WERE GAY?

What if we said that to not wele the homosexual means to not wele J? What if we saw J as the homosexual? If we n see J as the one need, the one opprsed, why n’t we see J as the homosexual?

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

For those objectg to the issue of homosexualy I challenge you to seek out tn and relatnship wh those intifyg as homosexual.

But for those that object and cree that God nnot or do not love homosexuals, listen only to the words of J, “Get behd me Satan. What if J was gay?

'WHAT IF J WAS GAY?': BRYAN MCPHERSON'S CONTROVERSIAL SONG

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.

WAS J GAY?

This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics.

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

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.

7 REASONS J WAS GAY

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.