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WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
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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 .
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. Although there is no rabbic tradn of celibacy, J uld well have chosen to rea om sexual activy, whether he was gay or not.
GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
If the J of History was gay, he mt have had someone to be gay wh. Who is the strongt ndidate for the role of J’ GBF. * john the baptist gay *
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 ia that J was gay is not new and, if he was gay, he mt have had someone to be gay wh.