'Was J Gay?’: The Class Unverg Hidn Queer Histori

Contents:

• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• 7 REASONS J WAS GAY
• WAS J GAY?
• WAS J GAY?—AN EXAMATN OF THE SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK
• GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

I felt I uld not pe the sufferg of gay and lbian people at the hands of the church, over many that divisive issue a subject for Good Friday? The evince, on the other hand, that he may have been what we today ll gay is very strong. But even gay rights mpaigners the church have been reluctant to suggt .

'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI

He dared to suggt that possibily and was met wh disda, as though he were simply out to much reflectn and wh certaly no wish to shock, I felt I was left wh no optn but to suggt, for the first time half a century of my Anglin prithood, that J may well have been homosexual.

Heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual: J uld have been any of the.

The homosexual optn simply seems the most likely.

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

Although there is no rabbic tradn of celibacy, J uld well have chosen to rea om sexual activy, whether he was gay or not. I saw as an act of penence for the sufferg and persecutn of homosexual people that still persists many parts of the church.

Whether J was gay or straight no way affects who he was and what he means for the world today. What matters this ntext is that there are many gay and lbian followers of J – ordaed and lay – who, spe the church, remarkably and humbly rema s fahful members. The most astoundg fdg om the newly disvered lead dic is that J Christ was unambiguoly and openly gay.

It seems clear now that this is ls a negative repudiatn of fay and more a posive exhortatn to jo affirmatn of a gay liftyle and is at least one new parable, that of the two young men. Before, one might have thought that, given Mary's virgy, Joseph's attu was reflectg the ambigui of his stat the fay; but now seems more probable that we have here a classic example of the Frdian triangle: over-posssive mother, hostile father, gay have we known so ltle about all of this before?

7 REASONS J WAS GAY

The classilly ted Pl, who was himself gay, saw that same-sex activy was imil to the succs of Christiany the highly homophobic societi which he lived. That’s right, the man who died for your ss may very well have been a homosexual.

This is somethg that gay men are notor for. 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. 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.

WAS J GAY?—AN EXAMATN OF THE SECRET GOSPEL OF MARK

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?

GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?

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....