Was J gay? Probably | Pl Otreicher | The Guardian

Contents:

• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• 5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY
• '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. 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 ....

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

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 .

5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY

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?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI

In Romans 1, Pl nounced gay sex as unnatural—an egreg example of pagan nce—and said would brg the wrath of God.