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Contents:
- J AFFIRMED A GAY UPLE.
- ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL
- POPE CONGRATULAT, BLS GAY COUPLE ON THE BAPTISM OF THEIR ADOPTED CHILDREN
- WAS J GAY?
- FRENCH PRIT SAYS POPE FRANCIS APPROVED BLSG GAY COUPL
J AFFIRMED A GAY UPLE.
Dover, Greek Homosexualy (Harvard Universy Prs, Cambridge, 1978), page 16; Bernard Sergent, Homosexualy Greek Myth (Bean Prs, Boston, 1986), page 10.
In the origal language, the importance of this story for gay, lbian, and bisexual Christians is much clearer.
ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL
In that culture, if you were a gay man who wanted a male “spoe, ” you achieved this, like your heterosexual unterparts, through a mercial transactn — purchasg someone to serve that purpose.
For an excellent and thorough discsn of the terms pais and entimos doulos the two gospel acunts, see Donald Mar’s article The Entimos Pais of Matthew 8:5-13 and Le 7:1-10, (Source: Homosexualy and Relign and Philosophy, Harland Publishg, Inc., New York, 1998). As he ma his way to J, he probably worried about the possibily that J, like other Jewish rabbis, would take a dim view of his homosexual relatnship.
This was like a gay man askg a televangelist to heal his lover.
POPE CONGRATULAT, BLS GAY COUPLE ON THE BAPTISM OF THEIR ADOPTED CHILDREN
Instead, J’ words are simple, clear, and liberatg for all who have worried about what God thks of gay relatnships.
” In other words, J holds up this gay centurn as an example of the type of fah others should aspire to.
WAS J GAY?
J didn’t jt tolerate this gay centurn. ” By this statement J affirmed that many others like this gay centurn — those who e om beyond the assumed boundari of God’s grace — are gog to be admted to the kgdom of heaven.
FRENCH PRIT SAYS POPE FRANCIS APPROVED BLSG GAY COUPL
In this story, J rtor a gay relatnship by a miracle of healg and then holds up a gay man as an example of fah for all to follow. Holy Homosexuals: The Tth About Beg Gay or Lbian and Christian by Rev. Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Qutns About Gay & Lbian People, Third Edn by Eric Marc.