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British gay Jesus video: Comedy or truth?

A comedian created “Was Jesus Gay?” as a comedy video, but most of it makes good sense to me as a lesbian Christian.

The popular video was made by Pat Condell, an English comedian and outspoken atheist.  His online video monologues of what he calls “godless comedy” have gotten more than 15 million hits.  “Was Jesus Gay?” has nearly half a million views.

I started watching Condell’s gay Jesus video without knowing that it was intended as comedy.  I thought he was a serious church leader, and kept wondering, “Why haven’t I heard of this theologian before?!”

The video begins with some well-deserved barbs against the Church for mistreating gays.  Then Condell states, “I’ve heard it suggested from some people that Christians are so irrationally obsessed with this subject because deep down they’re terrified that Jesus himself might have been gay.”

He talks about how Jesus spent the night with a naked youth in the Secret Gospel of Mark.  He speculates about what John meant when he called himself “the one who Jesus especially loved.”  He also discusses Jesus’ heterosexual marriage in some of the other Gnostic gospels.  All these theories about Jesus’ relationships are common topics of serious study by queer scholars.

My favorite part of the video is when Condell asks, “If somebody could prove historically beyond all doubt that Jesus was in fact homosexual, would Christians then reject Jesus or would they reject the evidence -- as usual?”

Good question.
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Cross-posted at the Jesus in Love Blog by Kittredge Cherry, lesbian Christian author and editor of the Jesus in Love Newsletter on GLBT spirituality and the arts.

μου δώστε το μεγάλο καρότο σας

by Pope Benedict XVI

posted by Joe Perez

Eros: an intoxicated
and undisciplined Desire,
Not an Ascent, but fall!
Must be disciplined,
Must be purified!

Not your fleeting pleasure,
Not a certain foretaste
of your PINNACLE
or that BEATITITUDE
for which my whole being yearns

A new activity must rise,
Charitable and new, as older
bodily forms are infused with
youthful life and new energy.
Deus Caritas Est.

Exposing alleged liberal hypocrisy, a gay conservative's attacks backfire

Cross-posted on Rising Up...

Highlighting the "hypocritical liberal" is a regular meme of Stephen Miller's Indegayforum CultureWatch blog. Miller's contention is that when conservatives bash gays, everyone goes nuts, but when liberals reveal their homophobic stripes, nobody notices. So he points out the hypocrisy. Fair enough. Sounds like a reasonable enough blogging project to me. But does it work?

Unfortunately, the most recent three examples from Miller's posts that I can find are positively loopy. First, there was his critique of Maureen Dowd's "hateful Brokeback column." It seems that she said jokingly that now John Wayne "sounds like a guy who might get arrested in a bus station bathroom." In Miller's eyes, this makes her "hateful" and "mean-spirited." He is shocked, shocked, that none of the liberal "gay watchdogs" has criticized her column. Criticized her for what? For besmirching John Wayne? For suggesting that men who frequent bus station bathrooms might be less than completely savory? Or should we criticize her for mentioning a gay stereotype in the column, specifically playing off the stereotype that gay men are fashion-conscious and therefore concerned about having a "bad hair day"? I'm sorry. I'm not feeling the outrage yet.

Then Miller went after this cartoon by an "Iraq-war opposing, Republican-despising" cartoonist, Jeff Danziger. A joke between two cowboys concludes with one cowboy acknowledging an intimate relationship with his (talking) horse. He's working on a screenplay. It's a clever cartoon that parodies the slippery slope argument about gay marriage (let two cowboys marry, then you won't be able to stop them from marrying a horse!) Once again, Miller doesn't think it's funny. He thinks the cartoonist is comparing homosexuality to bestiality, and that the only reason nobody's complaining is that the cartoonist is liberal. Does that sound like a sensible response to you? I'm scratching my head.

Most recently, Miller attacks this parody of homophobes by Larry David. David, in his best deadpan style, says:

I haven't seen "Brokeback Mountain," nor do I have any intention of seeing it. In fact, cowboys would have to lasso me, drag me into the theater and tie me to the seat, and even then I would make every effort to close my eyes and cover my ears.

Later in the piece, David goes on to mock several other homophobic memes, including the ever popular "I have many gay acquaintances" defense. Miller seemed to miss the humor, implying that David should be called to testify about his presumably "unimaginably neurotic and puritanical" attitudes about sex and/or gays.

Homosexuality Defined

Homosexual is a term originating from the greek words Homos, meaning "same", and sexual, meaning "sexual." It is used to describe couples who have sex in the same manner each night. This is different from heterosexuals who have sex in varying positions.

Homosexuality is especially popular in most Christian religions where anything aside from missionary style sex is considered sodomy. Most christians are outright homosexuals and believe heterosexuality to be a sin. -- Uncylclopedia

Found on Zephoria.

What Straight People Really Do Behind Closed Church Doors

"Hey baby. You're hot!" "And peace be with you, too, stud!" Tsk... tsk... tsk... Just read this Maxim article on "scoring at church" or read this shameful summary of the ways heterosexuals really interact at church when they're supposed to be promoting "family values." The heterosexualist agenda is not pretty. ;-)

Vatican Tightens Nocturnal Emissions Standards

from The Onion:

The Vatican has released a strict new set of Church laws intended to reduce the nocturnal emissions of teenage polluters by 50 percent in the next decade, Cardinal Antoni Bertoli announced Monday.

"In the past 10 years, unholy emissions from young men have risen by 150 million cubic centimeters, releasing erotic-dream byproducts into the bedsheet environment," Bertoli said. "The accumulation of pollutants from millions of individual violators around the world is having a devastating effect on the moral atmosphere."

Yeah, it's a satire.  But maybe it's also only a matter of time.

How to tell if you're living in a Red or Blue state

How to tell if you are living in a Red State or one of those "demon-infested" Blue States. Link courtesy of the Landover Baptist church.

Blue States: Home of good schools
Red States:  Homeskooled good
 
Blue States: Favor electric cars
Red States:  Favor electric chairs
 
Blue States: Forget that God did not give Adam a Steve
Red States:  Forget that not only did God give Abraham three wives, He gave Solomon 300 concubines
 

Blue States: Believe God loves us and gave everyone free will to be different
Red States:  Believe God willed us to freely hate everyone different
 
Blue States: Believe absence makes the heart grow fonder
Red States:  Believe abstinence saves the tart from plunder

Two Hanky Codes

A version of the Gay Hanky Code ... and the Christian Hanky Code.

Where God has a buzz

Wish the gay community had more places of worship that we could truly call our own? Imagine if folks followed a cue from one Denver area church and began converting gay bars into gay churches...

The National Enquirer reports that at The Church at the Bar, the faithful are greeted every other Tuesday to a nightclub near Denver. Minister Matt Honeycutt greets them with a pint of beer in his left hand as he welcomes the crowd with his right.

"In heaven there is no beer, that's why we drink it here."

Thanks to The Revealer for the link.

Speaking of beer, here's a list of the Top Ten Reasons Beer is Better than Jesus. (As a matter of fairness, I would be more than happy to run a link to a site that explains the Top Ten Reasons Jesus is Better than Beer, but I can't find such a site.)

The metrosexual tarot

Here's a card from the metrosexual tarot deck:

The Gay Pal: The gay pal is the straight guy's personal magician, casting the spell of fabulosity over what would otherwise be a beige, unimaginative, upscale het-guy existence. Funny how the years change us. In high school he was mercilessly taunted and flogged for his delicate, sissy nature. Now his sensibilities and aesthetic choices are a precious resource. Gay men have always been the advance guard of metrosexuality -- just another marginalized underclass who took it on the chin so that white, het guys could benefit from the lifestyle innovations. Hmm... History repeats itself? Anyway, every metrosexual needs a gay pal and his queer eye.

Meaning: Skill, vision, hard work, inspiration.

Reversed: Betrayal, duplicity, loss of direction..