Integrity Recommends: Gay Jesus in Love

Stand Firm ^ | 5/24/2006

[sionnsar]

The Episcopal Church's most influential gay advocacy group publicizes web site claiming Jesus had a gay lover

Integrity sends along this press release to its members:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

New Website Decodes Da Vinci the Gay Way

LOS ANGELES, CA - May 19, 2006 - Jesus' secret lover may have been male, not female as described in the new movie "The Da Vinci Code," opening this week.

The movie takes Da Vinci's famous "Last Supper" painting and says Jesus had a sexual relationship with the androgynous person next to him - a figure traditionally considered to be a man.

"Who was Jesus' mystery lover? Maybe it was Mary Magdalene, like the movie says. But pioneering scholars say that Jesus had a male lover," said Kittredge Cherry, lesbian author and founder of JesusInLove.org, the first website to focus on the queer Christ.

JesusInLove.org features a variety of books and images about Jesus and the man he loved, including a new painting by gay artist Becki Jayne Harrelson. Her "Last Supper" decodes Da Vinci by showing a full embrace between Jesus and an explicitly male partner.

"Let's take back Jesus," Ms. Cherry said. "The success of 'The Da Vinci Code' shows that Jesus belongs to the people, not just to sex-negative churches. In particular, the gay Jesus empowers gays and lesbians who turned away from spirituality because of the Religious Right."

The history behind the queer Christ is fleshed out in a variety of new books listed at JesusInLove.org. They include "The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives from the New Testament" by Chicago Theological Seminary professor Theodore Jennings and "Jesus and the Shamanic Tradition of Same-Sex Love" by anthropologist Will Roscoe.

The site also offers a sneak preview of Kittredge Cherry's forthcoming fictional autobiography of the queer Christ, "Jesus in Love."

JesusInLove.org features work by six contemporary American artists and an impressive links page that connects with many other artists worldwide who picture Christ as gay or female.

A recent review of JesusInLove.org by online magazine QueerDay.com called the site "a rather heavenly idea."

For more information, contact JesusInLoveInfo@aol.com or visit
http://jesusinlove.org

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Media contact: Kittredge Cherry
JesusInLoveInfo@aol.com
http://jesusinlove.org
High-res image available for use with this story: "Last Supper" by Becki Jayne Harrelson

[PandaRosaMishima]

mutilatioextrapolatidoicious -- to absurdly and meaninglessly extrapolate from an entirely mutilated initial concept into completely ridiculous, if intriguing, assertions of conjecture as truth.

I still say you're just showing off!

[Truth Junkie]

Your statement is true.

But we cannot blame it ALL on Satan.

In John 3:19, Jesus, the one who will Judge the world, stated the Verdict: "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil."

[lastchance]

If you mean argue like a liberal say argue like a liberal.

[Truth Junkie]

From Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
--Begin Quote--
Main Entry: ar·gue
Pronunciation: 'är-(")gyü
Function: verb
-- snip etymology and verb forms --
1 : to give reasons for or against something
--End Quote--

By Definition, Liberals don't argue. They don't believe that reason is binding or a valid source of truth.
They downgrade Truth to the level of Opinion and boost Opinion to the level of Truth.
You cannot have an Argument about Opinions.
You can only have a fight.
Therefore, Liberals don't argue. All they do is Fight.

[lastchance]

and whine, and pout and throw tantrums.

[Truth Junkie]

And Call Names!

Don't forget Call Names!!

It is what they do when they know they cannot win.

Here is a question for anyone here:

Several times, when arguing with liberals I have gotten the following response after I have totally answered all of their points and shown their entire rant to be wrong and even gotten them to admit it:

"Not everyone is as well-informed as you are."
or
"Not everyone follows politics as closely as you do."
or
"Not everyone follows current events like you do."

And then they act like that is the end of it.

My question is: What does that mean?

I have a suspicion that it means something like: "I'm glad that most people don't know the truth like you do, because my position would be in real trouble if they did. The fact that I realize and admit that you're absolutely correct will not make me change my position and I'm just glad that not many people know the truth."

What do you think? Am I reading too much into this?

[Rutles4Ever]

Sadly, this is almost un-original. What's next? Jesus the pedophile?

God have mercy...