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UCC Rainbow Priest Compares Jesus Raising Lazarus From the Dead to Queers “Coming Out of the Closet”
Disntr ^ | June 4, 2025 | staff

Posted on 06/10/2025 9:05:06 PM PDT by Morgana

That’s Rev. Dr. Caleb Lines, a full-time rainbow cleric and part-time cosplay theologian currently pastoring University Christian Church in San Diego. He’s also the Co-Executive Director of ProgressiveChristianity.org, which is basically a digital “safe space” for those who say they want Jesus but don’t want His inconvenient moral standards.

Lines is best known for his TikTok homilies, his pastel stole collection, and his tireless work deconstructing anything that even vaguely resembles biblical Christianity. If it’s sacred, he’ll profane it. If it’s clear, he’ll twist it. And if it’s in Scripture, he’ll rewrite it in the key of Queer Eye.

In his “Pride Sunday” sermon this past weekend, he dragged out a literal closet onto the church stage—because subtlety is for people who believe in nuance—and compared the resurrection of Lazarus to the experience of “coming out.”

Yes, really.

According to Lines, Jesus’ call to “come out” of the tomb was not a miraculous act of resurrecting a dead man, but an allegory for self-actualization through sexual identity. The burial cloths, he said, represent things like traditional family expectations and Bible verses that make people feel sad.

These must be “ripped off,” apparently, so that queers can embrace their new life—no repentance, no regeneration, just rainbow liberation theology with a side of legislative activism.

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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant
KEYWORDS: apostate; fagchurch; fakechurch

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1 posted on 06/10/2025 9:05:06 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Water into wine...water into urine...same thing.


2 posted on 06/10/2025 9:07:43 PM PDT by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: Morgana

I sure know they would like this spin to be true.


3 posted on 06/10/2025 9:08:55 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Morgana
"UCC Rainbow Priest"

The man is not a "priest" of any kind. If he isn't offering a sacrifice on an altar, he does not meet the definition of a priest because that's what priests do.

4 posted on 06/10/2025 9:14:09 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: Morgana

The resurrection of Lazarus should represent to the gays as giving themselves to Christ for the eternal life of their soul.


5 posted on 06/10/2025 9:29:46 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Morgana

Pray for it’s perverted demonic soul.


6 posted on 06/10/2025 9:40:36 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: Morgana

That is a grotesque idea.


7 posted on 06/10/2025 9:43:27 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Morgana

Caleb Lines is a heretic, plain and simple.


8 posted on 06/10/2025 10:28:17 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: jonrick46

I agree.


9 posted on 06/10/2025 10:28:30 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Big Red Badger

.....yes, but I doubt he would never admit the he is a demon in the flesh...note the word “sacred” below....there is nothing sacred in what this fraud is doing and preaching...

...”A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities. They also have the authority or power to administer religious rites; in particular, rites of sacrifice to, and propitiation of, a deity or deities. Their office or position is the “priesthood”, a term which also may apply to such persons collectively.”


10 posted on 06/11/2025 5:20:46 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: fidelis

My sister got married by such a “priest”. He wore impressive looking garb that didn’t represent any real religion.

ucc:
The, “if it feels good - do it” religion.


11 posted on 06/11/2025 5:52:31 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: Morgana

He’s not a priest.


12 posted on 06/11/2025 6:10:20 AM PDT by Romulus ( )
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To: Morgana

He sees homosexuality in everything - what a surprise!


13 posted on 06/11/2025 9:05:35 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Morgana

Blasphemy of the HOLY SPIRIT.


14 posted on 06/11/2025 10:38:31 AM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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