Contents:
- SOME FACTS SUGGT PL WAS GAY
- 20 GAY GREEK GODS
- BILL SKARSGARD & LANDON LIBOIRON ON THEIR ‘HEMLOCK GROVE’ CHARACTERS’ ‘SEXUAL TENSN,’ GAY UNRTON [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]
- PETER GAY OBUARY
- IS PETER SIMON GAY
SOME FACTS SUGGT PL WAS GAY
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. Pl, Apostle to the Gentil, wrer of Epistl ed by Christians to nmn gay people for centuri, might himself be gay?
He prents the se for Pl’s homosexualy his 1991 btseller “Rcug the Bible om Fundamentalism: A Bishop Rethks the Meang of Scripture”:. “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. A rigidly ntrolled gay male, I believe, tght the church what the love of God means ….
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.
20 GAY GREEK GODS
Some facts suggt Pl was gay. Spong and others pot out that a homosexual orientatn would expla some mysteri about Pl’s life:.
* He sometim exprsed negativy toward women and homosexual exploatn.
* Homosexualy might even help expla Pl’s taclysmic nversn experience. “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.
BILL SKARSGARD & LANDON LIBOIRON ON THEIR ‘HEMLOCK GROVE’ CHARACTERS’ ‘SEXUAL TENSN,’ GAY UNRTON [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO]
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. Spong: “A gay male tght the church what the love of God means”. Spong giv an eloquent and tailed explanatn of why he believ Pl was gay “Rcug the Bible om Fundamentalism.
“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. A rigidly ntrolled gay male, I believe, tght the Christian church what the love of God means and what, therefore, Christ means as God’s agent. Fally, was a gay male, tortured and rejected, who me to unrstand what rurrectn means as God’s vditg act.
PETER GAY OBUARY
Spong also asserts that Pl was homosexual a vio of his 2006 bate wh Jam Whe, director of Alpha and Omega Mistri. Viewers n watch the seven-mute sectn where Spong argu for Pl’s homosexualy or the full three-hour bate.
IS PETER SIMON GAY
Now I don’t know that Pl was gay, and I have no sense that even if he were gay he ever acted out. Now let me jt fally say, I don’t know that Pl was gay.
Novels explore Pl’s homosexual si. 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. The disvery of the letters leads to trigue the the homophobic rridors of the Vatin.
Pl’s stggle wh homosexual urg is skillfully rporated to this fictnal acunt of the early church.