It's important to nsir what J says to the gay muny, if for no other reason than the nfg noise on the news and public foms.
Contents:
- J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
- WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
- 5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY
- 39 BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY
- 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
J AS AN OPENLY GAY MAN
<p><strong>Pl Otreicher:</strong> I preached on Good Friday that J's timacy wh John suggted he was gay as I felt eply had to be addrsed</p> * jesus being gay *
In a 2012 article for Slate onle, Will Orem asked a provotive qutn: Was J a homophobe?
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. Orem suggts that J’s views on homosexualy were more clive than Pl’s.
WAS J GAY? PROBABLY
* jesus being gay *
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 .... Never the Bible do J himself offer an explic prohibn of homosexualy. Orem seems to suggt that sce J never explicly mentned homosexualy, he mt not have been very ncerned about .
5 THGS J SAYS TO THE GAY COMMUNY
The Bible vers aren't about nmng homosexuals, gays, lbians, or transgenr people. Rather, read God's lovg warng and grace for those who have strayed om His will for sex * jesus being gay *
Get a ee py of the ebook ‘What Do the Bible Really Teach about Homosexualy? It is credible to suggt that the words om J have no bearg on the qutn of homosexualy. So Orem has misnsted the relevance of J’s teachg to the homosexual qutn.
Even if J viewed homosexualy as a s, he had a penchant for reachg out to sners rather than shunng them....
39 BIBLE VERS ABOUT BEG GAY
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 one si is J: peace-lovg, enemy-fivg, egalarian, and clive wh regard to homosexuals.
On the other si is Pl: war-lovg, ath penalty–supportg, patriarchal, and exclnary wh regard to homosexuals. Dpe the hang-ups of people like Pl, J was not a homophobe.
10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
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. Will Orem, “Wa, Was J a Homophobe? The most astoundg fdg om the newly disvered lead dic is that J Christ was unambiguoly and openly gay.
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? 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.
Pope Francis was recently asked about his views on homosexualy.