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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?

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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.

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Some facts suggt Pl was gay. Spong and others pot out that a homosexual orientatn would expla some mysteri about Pl’s life:.

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* 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.

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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.

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