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Contents:
- J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
- 7 REASONS J WAS GAY
- ABOUT THOSE GAY LOGGERS FOR J AND JULY 4TH
- GAY FOR J
- WAS J GAY?
- 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
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.
7 REASONS J WAS GAY
This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics. As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully.
ABOUT THOSE GAY LOGGERS FOR J AND JULY 4TH
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. 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.
GAY FOR J
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.
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....
WAS J GAY?
In Romans 1, Pl nounced gay sex as unnatural—an egreg example of pagan nce—and said would brg the wrath of God.
'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
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. Will Orem, “Wa, Was J a Homophobe?
The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn. The most astoundg fdg om the newly disvered lead dic is that J Christ was unambiguoly and openly gay.