Showdown Nears St. Pl Over Repealg Gay Rights Law - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• WAS THE APOSTLE PL GAY?
• WAS ST. PL GAY? CLAIM STIRS FURY
• WAS ST. PAUL GAY?
• THE (POSSIBLY) GAY, ELE APOSTLE WHO BELIEVED RADIL EQUALY FOR ALL
• SOME FACTS SUGGT PL WAS GAY
• GAY NIGHTLIFE ST. PL, MNOTA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE
• GAYT PLAC IN MNOTA FOR 2020
• SHOWDOWN NEARS ST. PL OVER REPEALG GAY RIGHTS LAW
• DCE LED BY PRO-GAY BISHOP SAYS ’S ‘UP TO EACH PARISH’ WHETHER TO PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALY

WAS THE APOSTLE PL GAY?

Once unlocked, the msag not only cease to be hidn but they bee obv, glarg at the rear, who wonrs why such obv meangs had not been seen have suggted that that Pl was plagued by homosexual fears.

This is not a new ia, and yet until recent years, when homosexualy began to shed some of s negative nnotatns, was an ia so repulsive to Christian people that uld not be breathed official circl. When I did this for the first time, I was startled to see how much of Pl was unlocked and how eply I uld unrstand the power of the gospel that lerally saved Pl's I suggt the possibily that Pl was a homosexual person, I do not mean to be salac or tillatg or even to suggt somethg that many would nsir sndalo. The war that went on between what he sired wh his md and what he sired wh his body, his drivenns to a legalistic relign of ntrol, his fear when that system was threatened, his attu toward women, his refal to seek marriage an outlet for his passn-nothg else acunts for this data as well as the possibily that Pl was a gay 's relig tradn would clearly regard gay mal as aberrant, distorted, evil, and praved.

WAS ST. PL GAY? CLAIM STIRS FURY

Spong has been surround by ntroversy as he has labored on the leadg edge of movements to brg blacks, women and homosexuals to the full life of his now that he has wrten that St.

WAS ST. PAUL GAY?

Unrstandg PlConservative bishops, for example, asked that Bishop Spong be censured for ordag a sexually active gay man, but the Hoe of Bishops refed, cidg stead to merely "disassociate" self om his actns. In the 1980's, he lled on the prits his dce to "bls" homosexual unns and later ordaed a sexually active homosexual man agast the l of his own nomatn. Pl as a gay man, he said, he hop to make homosexuals more fortable the Epispal church and to attract people who left the church feelg that was a moribund stutn wedd to ancient ways of his book, the Bishop wr that he do not mean to be "salac or tillatg" by suggtg St.

THE (POSSIBLY) GAY, ELE APOSTLE WHO BELIEVED RADIL EQUALY FOR ALL

Stggle agast his own homosexual sir an tolerant society may have spired Pl the Apostle to wre sublime Biblil teachgs on unndnal love and clivy — and also a few “clobber passag” ed by anti-LGBTQ bigots. Both Pl’s sense of unworths and his appreciatn for God’s grace may have the same unexpected e: Some scholars believe that Pl was a celibate homosexual man tryg to rencile fah and sexualy a culture that nmned same-sex attractn.

“When I suggt the possibily that Pl was a homosexual person, I do not mean to be salac or tillatg or even to suggt somethg that many would nsir sndalo. The war that went on between what he sired wh his md and what he sired wh his body, his drivenns to a legalistic relign of ntrol, his fear when that system was threatened, his attu toward women, his refal to seek marriage as an outlet for his passn — nothg else acunts for this data as well as the possibily that Pl was a gay male.

SOME FACTS SUGGT PL WAS GAY

“The war gog on si of him is a fairly classic scriptn of what I have e to unrstand reprsed gay mal, ” Spong said a Los Angel Tim terview on Feb. For Spong, the ntradictns fally ma sense when he first enuntered the possibily of Pl’s homosexualy the 1937 book “Sat Pl” by Brish theologian Arthur Darby Nock. There may also be a homoerotic ponent to Pl’s love for the risen Christ, as explored “Eros and the Christ: Longg and Envy Pl’s Christology” by David E.

GAY NIGHTLIFE ST. PL, MNOTA: BT BARS, CLUBS, & MORE

“To me is a betiful ia that a homosexual male, srned then as well as now, livg wh both the self-judgment and the social judgments that a fearful society has so often unknowgly pronounced upon the very beg of some s cizens, uld nohels, not spe of this but bee of this, be the one who would fe grace for Christian people. “When I was young, would have given me enormo urage had I known that not jt once but twice the New Ttament honors a transgenr and homoerotic prophet by quotg him a posive ntext. … Acrdg to Greek sourc, Epimenis was the shaman who succsfully helped to rid Athens of a plague and who assisted the Athenian statman Solon his famo reforms, cludg the stutnalizatn of homoerotic love as was practiced Crete.

The gay historil romance swch between their love affair soon after the ath of Christ and a story set the near future, when young prit Fn McDonagh fds the secret love letters om Pl to Timothy. This vivid historil fictn is said to clu a reverently homoerotic scriptn of Pl’s relatnship wh Timothy, pecially right after his circumcisn when Pl embrac and kiss him.

” Key reflectns ver two “clobber passag” that have been ed to nmn homosexualy (Rom 1:26-27 and 1 Cor 6:9) and monstrate the relevance of texts throughout the Pl’s wrg. Tradnal and alternative sats, people the Bible, LGBT and queer martyrs, thors, theologians, relig lears, artists, i and other figur of special tert to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr and queer (LGBTQ) people and our alli are vered.

GAYT PLAC IN MNOTA FOR 2020

Includ the list are a uple of words that the New Internatnal Versn of the Bible translat as ‘men who have sex wh men’ but the English Standard Versn translat as ‘men who practice homosexualy’. I tend to agree wh Bishop John Shelby Spong, a brilliant theologian and church lear, who argu that Pl was “a rigidly ntrolled gay male, ” as he wr Rcug the Bible om Fundamentalism (1991).

(2 Corthians 12:7-9)In my view, the thentic Pl was bative, fiercely tellectual, probably prsive, bi-sexual or gay, a radil visnary who had a fiery image his head of a new heaven and a new earth. Stggle agast homosexual sire may have spired Pl the Apostle to wre sublime Biblil teachgs on unndnal love and clivy — and also a few “clobber passag” ed by anti-LGBTQ bigots. Both Pl’s sense of unworths and his appreciatn for God’s grace may have the same unexpected e: Some scholars believe that Pl was a celibate homosexual man tryg to rencile fah and same-sex attractn.

SHOWDOWN NEARS ST. PL OVER REPEALG GAY RIGHTS LAW

Coronatn Street is gearg up for s first gay marriage storyle, wh weddg bells store for Weatherfield uple Pl Foreman and Billy week, viewers are set to see the two s down for a ser nversatn, where the two discs their future as Pl's Motor Nrone Disease (MND) ntu to uple's chat about after Pl's nversatn wh fellow MND patient Shelly at the support group, who enurag Pl to take ntrol and do somethg he has always wanted to believ Pl is gog to propose to him and pulls out all the stops, but turns out Pl has somethg big to ask of Billy before he asks him to bee his hband. ITVRelated: Coronatn Street's Pla Wilx wds up fans over Elae and Stephen storyActor Daniel Brocklebank adms he feels "slightly honoured" to help brg the first Corrie gay weddg to screens.

DCE LED BY PRO-GAY BISHOP SAYS ’S ‘UP TO EACH PARISH’ WHETHER TO PROMOTE HOMOSEXUALY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMany of New York Cy’s most outwardly gay-iendly parish are ncentrated Manhattan, a center of both gay culture and efforts to build a gay-iendly Watts for The New York TimThe pews fill up quickly each Sunday at the Church of St. Pl the Apostle, a Roman Catholic parish Midtown Manhattan, wh worshipers who travel om all rners of the cy to attend what markets as s gay-iendly 5 p. Mistri; anizg events like spirual retreats, hik and happy hours at lol gay bars; celebratg Mass and other events durg Pri Month; and by speakg up for the gay Watts for The New York TimWhen the Vatin issued a statement March that said prits uld not bls same-sex unns, which rid as a form of s, the parish and a handful of others Manhattan issued statements of dismay or ed hoi durg Mass as an opportuny to fort L.

”The cy’s most outwardly gay-iendly parish are ncentrated Manhattan, a center of both gay culture and efforts to build a gay-iendly Catholicism.

Interviews wh more than two dozen gay Catholics New York revealed a powerful sire to rencile their sexual inty wh their fah both God and an stutn that has often approached them wh hostily.