It's important to nsir what J says to the gay muny, if for no other reason than the nfg noise on the news and public foms.
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
<p><strong>Pl Otreicher:</strong> I preached on Good Friday that J's timacy wh John suggted he was gay as I felt eply had to be addrsed</p> * jesus and gay *
In a 2012 article for Slate onle, Will Orem asked a provotive qutn: Was J a homophobe?
J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
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 ....
5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY
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 .
'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
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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.... In Romans 1, Pl nounced gay sex as unnatural—an egreg example of pagan nce—and said would brg the wrath of God.