Jesus was probably gay according to Anglican priest Paul
Ostreicher he's also a journalist and expert on human rights
peace faith in society he worked for political prisoners in Eastern Europe
during the Cold War
in South Africa during apartheid he also wrote a piece in The Guardian
two days ago that is very very controversial saying he believes Jesus
was probably
a game and let's go through the argument put forth by Anglican priest
Paul Ostreicher he says three women but only one man had the courage to go with
Jesus to his execution
that man clearly had a unique place in the affection of Jesus in all classic
depictions
above the Last Supper a favorite subject of Christian art
John is next to Jesus very often with his head
resting on Jesus's breast dying in Jesus asks John to look after his mother
and asks his mother to accept John as her son
jon takes Mariehamn John becomes unmistakably part
a Jesus is family next piece have
evidence cited by Anglican priest Paul Ostreicher
Jesus was a Hebrew rabbi unusually
he was unmarried the idea that he had a romantic relationship with Mary
Magdalene is the stuff of fiction
based on no biblical evidence the evidence on the other hand
that he may have been what we today call gay is very strong
after much reflection and with certainly no wish to shock
I felt I was left with no option but to suggest for the first time
in half a century have my anglican priesthood
that Jesus may well have been homosexual
had he been do buoyed up sexuality
he would not have been truly human to believe that
would be heretical and he goes on to say heterosexual bisexual homosexual
Jesus could have been any of these there can be no certainty
which the homosexual option does seem
the most likely the intimate relationship with the Beloved Disciple
point in that direction it would be so interpreted in any person today
although there is no rubin extradition of celibacy
Jesus could well have chosen to refrain from sexual activity
whether he was gay or not now I understand Louis
that if you don't buy into these biblical texts
at all this is of course completely meaningless
that's why this should be of interest to those who do believe
the biblical texts as does Anglican priest Paul
Ostreicher the reaction from many believers
is to be incredibly offended of course as we've explored on this program
if people are incredibly offended by ideas or suggestions
it means that those ideas are definitely worth exploring
yeah it's funny yeah it when you're talking to people about Jesus
is never really comes up jesus's sex wrap sexuality
just never really is is brought into the conversation
I'm but I guess considering that the religion in
and that the context I'm they don't really like to talk about that at all
unless the talking about when its ascent angered well that's exactly the point
Anglican priest Paul Ostreicher goes on to say whether Jesus was gay or straight
in no way affect who he was and what he means for the world today spirituality
is immaterial
what matters in this context that there are many gay and lesbian followers of
Jesus ordained and lay
who despite the church remarkably and humbly
remain its faithful members with the christian churches in their many guises
more openly accept embrace and love them
there would be many more disciples you would think Christians would realize if
they were
more open to the LGBT community that they would probably do
be a stronger community well when their priests and pastors are telling them
that
that that this stuff is an abomination well I don't think we're going to be to
accepting
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