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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. This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics.
7 REASONS J WAS GAY
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.
ABOUT THOSE GAY LOGGERS FOR J AND JULY 4TH
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.
GAY FOR J
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.
WAS J GAY?
Orem suggts that J’s views on homosexualy were more clive than Pl’s.
'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
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 ....