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

Contents:

• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• WAS J GAY?
• 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
• MORMON CHURCH BACKS U.S. MEASURE TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

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 ....

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 . Get a ee py of the ebook ‘What Do the Bible Really Teach about Homosexualy?

WAS J GAY?

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. On the one si is J: peace-lovg, enemy-fivg, egalarian, and clive wh regard to homosexuals. On the other si is Pl: war-lovg, ath penalty–supportg, patriarchal, and exclnary wh regard to homosexuals.

Dpe the hang-ups of people like Pl, J was not a homophobe. Wh clary and passn, this book sets forth the Bible’s teachg on sexualy om a plementarian perspective, alg wh ntroversial issu such as homosexualy and polygamy.

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

Will Orem, “Wa, Was J a Homophobe? 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? 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.

MORMON CHURCH BACKS U.S. MEASURE TO PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE

After the Supreme Court's historic lg on gay marriage, seemed like all the proudly homophobic Christians me out of the woodwork to talk about how much they still hate gay people. As a straight Jew, the homophobia amongst J's followers has always stck me as a b of a surprise: Worshippg at the feet of a ripped, hung man, seems at least a ltle homoerotic. But 's J himself who lights up my gaydar like a Christmas tree.

Reverend Bob Shore-Goss, an openly gay senr pastor, has wrten several books on the subject, cludg Queerg Christ and J ACTED UP: A Gay and Lbian Manifto.