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David v. Goliath: The Gay Gam, the Olympics, and the Ownership of Language

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WAS HERO DAVID IN GOLIATH TALE HOMOSEXUAL? NEW THEOLOGY SEES REFERENCES TO GAY ACCEPTANCE IN BIBLE

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" No way to prove , says Comstock, the Prottant chapla at Wleyan Universy, but to a gay man like himself this n be read as a homosexual relatnship. " For homosexuals, the Good Book has seldom been portrayed as a iendly one. But far om beg disuraged, many homosexual Christians -- thoands of whom are expected to jo today's march here -- are takg a h look at Scripture and g up wh new terpretatns of age-old stori.

The rult is a brand new field: gay theology. The days, gay theology is showg up both universy classrooms and the relign racks of bookstor. The Amerin Amy of Relign, which reprents thoands of scholars natnally, clus foms on homosexual issu at s annual meetgs.

Comstock's book, "Gay Theology Whout Apology, " was due to be published last week, jt time for the march. "I thk the wave's still buildg, " says Greg Lk, director of New Ways Mistri, an advocy group for gay Catholics based Mount Raier, Md. One of the bt-known gay theologians is John J.

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Read om a homosexual viewpot, he says, biblil passag "rise up and take a new lumosy and a new meang. What's ually translated English as "servant" may also be read the origal Greek text as "beloved boy, " suggtg the centurn was volved a homosexual partnership, says McNeill.

Gay theology is "fely at the heart of liberatn theology, " he says. " "John McNeill's stuff is great, " says Barry Goodson, executive director of Digny USA, a natnal anizatn for gay Catholics.

" "It's one step beyond what you fd gay theology, " says Goss, 44, a Boston bsman. Many homosexuals, he says, "intify Christiany as the enemy, but I'm tryg to say to them Christiany is not the enemy, the stutn {the church} is the enemy. " Ined, he wr, offers biblil precent for ACT-UP's much-publicized 'Stop the Church' monstratns, which dispted Sunday Mass at a time when Cardal John O'Connor of New York and other Catholic lears had spoken out agast certa gay rights and public health issu.

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" Biddle, who is heterosexual, tells her dienc about the different ways scholars and Bible translators al wh Scriptural passag that are ed to cricize homosexualy.

But Comstock, the Wleyan chapla, says gay theology mands that certa vers -- pecially Levic 20:13 -- be acknowledged as anti-homosexual. Some claim that Kg David and Jonathan were gay.

In other words they believe the David and Jonathan iendship was homosexual. They believe that the David and Jonathan kiss  1 Samuel 20:40-41 dit that they were homosexual lovers.

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