A new trailer nfirmed that Eternals will feature Phastos, a gay character played by Brian Tyree Henry, who's married wh a kid. Never heard of him? You're not alone.
Contents:
- SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR ACCEPTS HIS GAY SON, CHANG HIS CHURCH.
- THE PATHOS OF THE CLOSET AND THE GENERATNS: GAY PROFSORS AND THEIR STUNTS DURG AND POST GAY LIBERATN THE UNED STAT
- HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’
- 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
- 'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
- GAY MARRIAGE BUDDHISM
SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR ACCEPTS HIS GAY SON, CHANG HIS CHURCH.
This article foc on gay profsor-stunt relatnships the Uned Stat, durg and post gay liberatn. Explorg personal wrgs, stunt perdils, and amic documents between the late 1960s and the 1990s, I argue that teractns between gay profsors and their stunts illum … * gay pathos *
The release of Marvel Studs' highly-anticipated ensemble Phase 4 flick Eternals is nigh, and wh the Chloe Zhao-directed film set to troduce the world to Phastos, the first gay superhero the expansive Marvel Cematic Universe, we thought now would be a good time to get faiar wh the character (who is fely gog to be gog down the LGBTQ+ history books)!
Bis makg history as the first gay superhero the Marvel Cematic Universe, Henry and Sleiman are also reportedly gog to be sharg an on-screen kiss the film, which is groundbreakg and of self, pecially when you nsir the long history of Marvel Studs (and every other mastream stud, tbh) and their films beg domated by cishet, whe characters. Christians are creasgly divid over the issue of the acceptance and cln of gay persons to the church. Our Christian hearts, ns the (ually impassned) argument, pel to grant full moral and legal equaly to gay and lbian people; our Christian fah, the (ually impassned) rebuttal, pels to cleave, above all, to the word of God.
THE PATHOS OF THE CLOSET AND THE GENERATNS: GAY PROFSORS AND THEIR STUNTS DURG AND POST GAY LIBERATN THE UNED STAT
The text of the Bible on one hand, and full equaly for gay and lbian people on the other, is a false dichotomy. All tak is readg those passag of the Bible where homosexualy is mentned wh the same re that we would any other passage of the book.
HOW ‘ETERNALS’ ESTABLISH THE MCU’S FIRST GAY SUPERHERO AND SAME-SEX COUPLE A MOVIE: ‘IT’S LIFE-SAVG’
If there is no clearly stated directive the Bible to margalize and ostracize gay people, then is morally fensible for Christians to ntue to do so. What nnot be nied is that Christians have ed a great al of pa and sufferg to gay persons, by:. Damagg the bonds between gays and their straight fay members, th weakeng the forts and spirual us of fay life for both gays and their fai.
Usg their posn wh society as spokpersons for God to proclaim that all homosexual relatns are disdaed by God, th knowgly ntributg to the cel persecutn of a mory populatn. However, they ntend that they have no choice but to do the thgs, based on what they say is a clear directive about homosexuals livered to them by God through the Holy Bible.
They assert that the Bible f all homosexual acts as sful, stcts them to exclu om full participatn the church all non-repentant sners (cludg gay people), and morally lls upon them to publicly (or at least rolutely) nounce homosexual acts. Whout an explic directive om God to exclu and nmn homosexuals, the Christian muny’s treatment of gay persons is clear vlatn of what J and the New Ttament wrers potedly intified as one-half of God’s most important mandment: to love one’s neighbor as one’s self.
5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE MCU'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SUPER-POWERED CHARACTER
The gay muny has cried out for jtice om Christians, who have a biblilly mandated obligatn to be jt. Bee the sufferg imposed on gay persons by Christians is so severe, the directive om God to margalize and ostracize gay people would have to be clear and explic the Bible.
'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
If there is no such clearly stated directive, then the ntued Christian mistreatment of gay and lbian people is morally fensible, and mt cease. Heterosexual Christians are beg unbiblil by g the clobber passag as jtifitn for applyg absolute standards of moraly to homosexual “ss” that they themselv are not tempted to m, while at the same time acceptg for themselv a standard of relative moraly for those ss listed the clobber passag that they do routely m.
Homosexualy is briefly mentned only six or seven of the Bible’s 31, 173 vers. (The vers where homosexualy is mentned are monly known as the “clobber passag, ” sce they are typilly ed by Christians to “clobber” LGBT people. ) The fact that homosexualy is so rarely mentned the Bible should be an ditn to of the lack of importance ascribed by the thors of the Bible.
GAY MARRIAGE BUDDHISM
While the Bible is nearly silent on homosexualy, a great al of s ntent is voted to how a Christian should behave. If heterosexual Christians are obligated to look to the Bible to terme the sfulns of homosexual acts, how much greater is their obligatn to look to the Bible to terme the sfulns of their behavr toward gay persons, pecially light of the gay muny’s ll to them for jtice? As we’ll see below, the clobber passag Pl also nmns, along wh homosexualy, those three specific ss.