From Gay to Gospel: The Fascatg Story of Becket Cook

Contents:

• J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
• WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
• 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
• WAS J GAY?
• 7 REASONS J WAS GAY
• GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?
• BRAZIL: NETFLIX 'GAY J' PARODY FILM BAN OVERTURNED
• DO GOD STILL LOVE ME IF I’M GAY?
• FROM GAY TO GOSPEL: THE FASCATG STORY OF BECKET COOK
• DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?
• ART: GAY J AND WOMAN CHRIST
• ART THAT DAR: GAY J, WOMAN CHRIST AND MORE BY KTREDGE CHERRY
• THE TWISTED FATE FOR MEN WHO CLAIMED J WAS GAY
• NETFLIX FACG BACKLASH OVER COMEDY SPECIAL WH GAY J
• PETN TO BAN NETFLIX’S GAY J EDY GETS OVER 2 LN SIGNATUR
• A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
• NOLTE: NETFLIX RELEAS ‘GAY J’ CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN

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. 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 ....

Orem seems to suggt that sce J never explicly mentned homosexualy, he mt not have been very ncerned about . Even if J viewed homosexualy as a s, he had a penchant for reachg out to sners rather than shunng them....

WAS J GAY? PROBABLY

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 other si is Pl: war-lovg, ath penalty–supportg, patriarchal, and exclnary wh regard to homosexuals. 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.

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?

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

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. 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? 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.

WAS J GAY?

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. 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.

This isn’t the first time Pope Francis has shown himself to be a progrsive lear when to, among other thgs, gay Catholics. As a biblil scholar, I would suggt that church lears who e their cultur and theology to exclu homosexuals don’t read Scripture refully. Those who would exclu homosexuals om God’s kgdom choose to ignore J, turng stead to the Old Ttament – most particularly to Genis 19, the stctn of the ci of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Levic 18:22 and 20:13, for example, are not about “homosexualy” as we now unrstand – as the rg, lovg and sexual relatnship between people of the same sex. Christians – no matter which church they belong to – should follow Pl and extend to the heterosexual-homosexual distctn. Many who support same-sex marriage and gay rights argue that, sce J never mentned homosexualy, He did not nsir to be sful.

7 REASONS J WAS GAY

It is technilly te that J did not specifilly addrs homosexualy the Gospel acunts; however, He did speak clearly about sexualy general. The pot is that J did not need to emize s, pecially when the further revelatn ntaed the Epistl remov all doubt as to homosexualy’s sfulns. Christians are lled to pray for those who do not know Christ, to serve others love, and to share the msage of J wh all people, cludg those volved homosexualy.

GAY J – WHO WAS THE BELOVED DISCIPLE?

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. 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.

He holds a doctorate gree Comparative Relign om Harvard, and he serv on the Natnal Advisory Board of the Center for Lbian and Gay Studi Relign. I got touch wh Reverend Goss, who laid out the Biblil evince and explaed how his theory plays by Flickr er Wag for the World VICE: Was J Christ gay? Pl, I would say, would probably be scribed as a closeted homosexual today, but they didn't have those words at the was homosexualy perceived J's time?

BRAZIL: NETFLIX 'GAY J' PARODY FILM BAN OVERTURNED

Now, homoerotic relatnships the ancient world are really mon, pecially the Greek and Roman J himself ever addrs that? " J says about the fah of the Centurn, who is a homoerotic relatnship, that "there is no greater fah than I've enuntered Israel. " They're utterg this homoerotic phrase that was uttered by a Centurn an actual homosexual relatnship wh a youth.

DO GOD STILL LOVE ME IF I’M GAY?

But a church of the send century would unrstand that this is a homosexual relatnship and wasn't a big what evince is there the bible of J's homosexualy?

FROM GAY TO GOSPEL: THE FASCATG STORY OF BECKET COOK

But what this has to say is that there was some sort of homoerotic relatnship, a love seems that, like anythg else the Bible, you n draw your own nclns, cludg that J was gay. Even evangelils will say that J was perfect so that, orr to be saved for evangelils, you mt be heterosexual to be VICE News: Tears, Lghter, and Triumph for a Lbian Couple the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage CaseBut if J was gay, and he was perfect, then really 's only the gay people that are gog to heaven, right?

DO GAY PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN?

I want to say that all sexuali are an origal blsg bee we're ma the image of I'm gettg om this the most is that J, as a queer human dividual, uld at least relate to the stggle of gay men—feelg like outsts, havg vlence perpetrated on them for their queerns, whatever may be.

Yeah, I'd say that you're absolutely on solid ground wh your if J wasn't gay, I image he'd certaly feel more kship wh the mory of homosexuals than the heteronormative Christians who preach hate. And often tim they're vehement about bee they have so much ternalized homophobia, which dit to me that they have those same attractns to the same sex that they need to stamp them out other people.

Christ has e to rcue homosexual people, no ls than heterosexual people, om their soul-killg idolatry so that we might live fiven, joyful, obedient, and triumphant liv as discipl of J.

ART: GAY J AND WOMAN CHRIST

The good news of J is that God sav heterosexual sners and homosexual sners who tst J, by both fully acceptg them Christ, spe their s, and helpg them through his Spir to rist s and live pleasg to him. Christians nnot tly love those who intify as homosexuals whout believg, and beg hont wh them, that such behavr is s and will lead to stctn and eternal ath.

As the years have passed, and as society has bee so drastilly progrsive, was evable that more and more people would beg to see J as a gay man. Durg Holy Week many LGBT Christians and their alli fd spiratn “The Passn of Christ: A Gay Visn, ” a ntroversial seri of patgs that are newly available as a book. Every group envisns Christ based on their own ntext, and now there is a gay visn of J, shaped by the polil, enomic and cultural forc of our time.

Blanchard says that their morn unterparts—such as LGBT people murred gay bashgs, driven to suici, or killed by AIDS—were on his md as he pated “J Di. Many nmn the gay Passn of Christ patgs as blasphemy, but I see them as a blsg that builds fah and a better society. Brazil's far-right Print Jair Bolsonaro once said he would rather have a ad son than a gay son, Eduardo Bolsonaro, lled the Netflix show "garbage" on Twter, addg that Porta dos Fundos "do not reprent Brazilian society" may also be terted :More on this story.

ART THAT DAR: GAY J, WOMAN CHRIST AND MORE BY KTREDGE CHERRY

” Sprgboardg om his personal stggle wh homosexualy, Allberry addrsed the qutn of sexualy and s associatn wh s acrdg to J’s own words. Long-standg false mor holds that J and His discipl will be portrayed as homosexual a soon-to-be-released movie.

This piece about an upg "gay J film" is one of those exampl that monstrat a good petn never go away, even when the issue addrs has long sce been settled (or was never really an issue the first place).

THE TWISTED FATE FOR MEN WHO CLAIMED J WAS GAY

The "gay J film" petn first h the fan 1984, and by the end of 1985 more than a ln Christians had wrten prott letters an attempt to have the non-existent movie referenced banned. Morn People News has revealed plans for the filmg of a movie based on the SEX LIFE OF JESUS which J is portrayed as a swgg HOMOSEXUAL. Followg the efforts at verifitn, a statement was read on the air sayg that although the attorney general had received between two and three thoand letters over a perd of several weeks ncerng the supposed gay-J movie, no evince uld be found that such a project ever existed.

The cha letter is a plea to prott " the strongt possible language" the makg of a movie which J Christ uld be picted as a swgg homosexual.

This novative film, signed exclively for gay dienc, go to excciatg tail ncerng the erotic reer of J Christ.

NETFLIX FACG BACKLASH OVER COMEDY SPECIAL WH GAY J

) The central character of the film is actually a young gay male ntemporary Ameri whose sexual obssn wh J helps him to unrstand the "hidn meang" of the Gospels. The uproar wasn't over a gay J, merely one who both qutned his fate and who had a dream about a sexual relatnship wh Mary Magdalene. He lost his appeal agast nvictn for blasphemo libel volvg poem he had published about a Roman centurn's homosexual love for J.

In the first few months after beg lled as a bishop, I was surprised when three sets of parents my ward each approached me private to let me know that they had a child who intified as gay or transgenr. People who experience same-sex attractn or intify as gay, lbian, or bisexual n make and keep venants wh God and fully and worthily participate the Church.

Intifyg as gay, lbian, or bisexual or experiencg same-sex attractn is not a s and do not prohib one om participatg the Church, holdg llgs, or attendg the temple. Ten years ago, Becket Cook was a gay man Hollywood who had achieved great succs as a set signer the fashn dtry.

PETN TO BAN NETFLIX’S GAY J EDY GETS OVER 2 LN SIGNATUR

In the years sce, Cook pleted a gree at Talbot School of Theology and wrote a memoir of his nversn, A Change of Affectn: A Gay Man’s Incredible Story of Remptn, which jt released.

A GAY PASTOR EXPLAS WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY SAYS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY

Defg yourself as a “gay Christian, ” even if you are celibate and not active a homosexual relatnship, is wildly misleadg. In terms of rpondg to those close to who e out as gay or lbian, ’s important to love them unndnally whout promisg your nvictns.

I certaly felt that way whenever I remembered that my fay, even though they loved me, believed homosexual behavr is a s.

NOLTE: NETFLIX RELEAS ‘GAY J’ CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

Books like yours may well be banned one day, sce they say homosexualy is sful and mt be left behd followg Christ. The Bible is nsistent through both Old and New Ttaments nfirmg that homosexualy is s (Genis 19:1–13; Levic 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26–27; 1 Corthians 6:9; 1 Timothy 1:10; Ju 1:7). The difference between the Old and New Ttaments is that the New Ttament offers hope and rtoratn to those ught up the s of homosexualy through the reemg power of J.