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Contents:
- WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
- 'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
- D NICE NET WORTH, WIFE, GAY
- J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
- WAS J GAY?
WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
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? The evince, on the other hand, that he may have been what we today ll gay is very strong.
'WAS J GAY?’: THE CLASS UNVERG HIDN QUEER HISTORI
But even gay rights mpaigners the church have been reluctant to suggt . 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.
D NICE NET WORTH, WIFE, GAY
Heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual: J uld have been any of the.
The homosexual optn simply seems the most likely. 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. Whether J was gay or straight no way affects who he was and what he means for the world today.
J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
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. Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy. Persons wh homosexual tennci are children of God.
WAS J GAY?
Crimalisg people wh homosexual tennci is an jtice. 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. Their terpretatn of the story is that is about homosexualy.
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. Last Updated on June 05, 2019D Nice has an credible amount of to both of his even om his woman to get gay news related to him...