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

[Das Outsider]

The sheer mutilatioextrapolatidoicious extrabibilical hyperconvolutional gyrations required to posit the most remote connexion between the Scriptural Jesus and this 'summa idiotica' are only slightly less twisted than the inner beings of the individuals making these assertions.

Who needs evidence? You can just make stuff up, so long as it intrigues enough people. We're a society of idiots; for that assertion, I do have evidence: the best-seller lists.

God save them. No one else can.

The same goes for me, you, and everyone else.

[alpha-8-25-02]

1Pe 5:8 ¶ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
(NKJV)

IF CHRIST IS NOT IN CHARGE THE ADVERSARY IS!!!!

[Das Outsider]

...pretty much any damn thing they want. That's what they call 'pioneering.'

What Muggeridge referred to as the state of nothing being so absurd that some professor somewhere will not rush to defend it.

[little jeremiah]

Beyond disgusting. By their offenses against Jesus Christ, they are only condemning themselves. The really sad part is the idiots who are/will be influenced by the filthy lies.

[Das Outsider]

IF CHRIST IS NOT IN CHARGE THE ADVERSARY IS!!!!

Bingo. That isn't some simpleminded dichotomy: it is reason aided by the Word of God. Ultimately, one belongs to the first or the second. If a church-related organization states that what God's Word declares to be wrong is really right (or perhaps neutral), and we understand that such is false prophecy by proclamation alone, the rest follows.

Satan said "ye shall be like gods," and we've believed it ever since.

[MHGinTN]

'Shake the dust from your sandals and get quickly away from these.' 'Abandon them to their perversions,' as they await perdition.

[Das Outsider]

The really sad part is the idiots who are/will be influenced by the filthy lies.

Mainly middle-aged to early 60s women who vote Democrat, are enthralled by daytime "dramas," believe that gay men by nature have an innate knack for home interior design, and long to return to Western Europe.

In other words, Brokeback Mountain's demographic.

[Hawk1976]

Okay so this persons an idiot. The thing that is making it hard to talk to people is that it seems that people don't realize where and when and on what pallet and why the original Last Supper was painted. Not to mention who was most likely to see it.

Once you take those things into account, the "Last Supper" is nothing more than an artist mural to be seem and pondered by catholic monks at their meals.

I don't know why their is a height difference in the background of the Mona Lisa, it could be a simple mistake by an artist.

[gidget7]

Dear God, these people will stop at nothing, and there is no level they will not stoop to.

Absolutely certifiably INSANE! all of them.

[PandaRosaMishima]

"The sheer mutilatioextrapolatidoicious extrabibilical hyperconvolutional gyrations..." Run that by me again, esp that third word? Uh, does this gargantuan bunch of letters MEAN anything or are you just trying to bamboozle us?

Remember, Mahatma Gandhi was a Super-Calloused-Fragile-Mystic-Hexed-by-Halitosis....

[MHGinTN]

If you don't stop it, I'm gonna tell the story about crossing state lions with immortal porpoises, followed by people who live in glass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

[PanzerKardinal]

Act of Reparation to the Precious Blood

Adorable Jesus, Lamb without spot, Who ceasest not to pour forth Thy Divine Blood in order to appease the justice of Thy Heavenly Father; innocent and thrice holy Victim, who hast paid for the guilty a ransom infinite in merit and in sacrifice, I come before Thee to render thanksgiving for Thy benefits to us, and to make some poor amends for the crimes committed upon earth.

Lord, how small, alas, are the number of those who do Thee honor, and how numerous, on the contrary, are they who despise and trample under foot Thy Precious Blood! How many daily satiate Thee with the opprobrium of Calvary!

O Jesus, by the potent voice of Thy Divine Blood, and in the name of the infinite merits of Thy heart-rending Passion, I implore Thy mercy, not for myself alone, but for the many souls who, resisting the call of grace, refuse to seek, at the foot of the Cross, or under the shadow of the Tabernacle, pardon and life.

Pity, gentle Jesus, pity all these; pity also those who dare to approach Thee all uncleansed, and to mingle Thine adorable Blood with the mire of their sins. Yes, pity, mercy, pardon! We implore these graces in the name of Thy Blood and Thine Eucharist!

Most holy Mary, bless me! Take my heart, hold it fast, and keep it in perpetual adoration before the altar; that there it may ever be, glorifying Jesus, and making reparation for the outrages offered to His Blood.

[Mrs. Don-o]

If they think that Jesus Christ, True God and True Man, is just silly putty, ready to be molded into any shape that suits the current agenda, imagine how they think of mere mortals --- for instance, your kids--

[dcnd9]

"Integrity" and "gay" in same thought is an oxymoron!

[dcnd9]

Evil, evil, evil .....Satan is alive and well on their site.

[Paine's Ghost]

Matthew 7:16 "You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles?

Matthew 7:17 "Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

Matthew 7:18 "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

Matthew 7:19 "Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 7:20 "Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Got to admit, Matthew does talk a lot about "Fruits".

;>)>

[N. Theknow]

If you don't stop it, I'm gonna tell the story about crossing state lions with immortal porpoises, followed by people who live in glass houses shouldn't stow thrones.

When you go to the beach, throw rocks at the birds.

Leave no tern unstoned.

[N. Theknow]

Just one more fantasy by the homsexuals to convince themselves and others that there is nothing wrong with their behaviour.

As much chance of that as convincing Satan to put in air conditioning.

[MHGinTN]

Ah, someone else who matriculated from the school of inanities ... idolize those lewis & stooges don'tchaknow.

[HKMk23]

mutilatioextrapolatidoicious

mutilatio -- from 'mutilate' - truncated, maimed, to cut up or radically alter, to cut off or permanently detroy an essential part of

extrapolati -- from 'extrapolate' - to infer from the known, project, extend or expand into the unknown so as to build a basis for conjectural statements about the unknown

doicious -- from 'supercalifragilisticexpialidoicious' - an absurdly meaningless but nonetheless intriguing expression invented for the pleasure of children of all ages for a musical number in the Disney film "Mary Poppins".

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