Holy crap. The Bible thumpers are not going to be happy about this!
Political campaigner Peter Tatchell just published a blog post on his website insinuating that God’s only son, Jesus Christ, may have been gay. But not only that. He may have had a thing for resurrected twinks. And he probably woke up each morning with an erection, too.
Gasp!
“Was Jesus queer?” Tatchell writes. “We don’t know. But it is a possibility that cannot be ruled out. One version of St. Mark’s gospel — which is still the subject of academic dispute — alludes to Jesus having a homosexual relationship with a youth he raised from the dead.”
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Tatchell cites the following passage from the full text of St. Mark chapter 10 (between verses 34 and 35 in the standard version of the Bible) as evidence:
And the youth, looking upon him (Jesus), loved him and beseeched that he might remain with him. And going out of the tomb, they went into the house of the youth, for he was rich. And after six days, Jesus instructed him and, at evening, the youth came to him wearing a linen cloth over his naked body. And he remained with him that night, for Jesus taught him the mystery of the Kingdom of God.
Let’s break that down for a second…
So Jesus snuck into this dead twink’s tomb and turned him into a zombie. Then they went back to the kid’s fabulous pad. They hung out there for a few days, presumably getting to know one another, before the zombie/twink went to slip into something more comfortable. When he returned, he and Jesus had sex all night long.
“The precise nature of the relationship between Christ and the youth is not spelled out,” Tatchell notes. “Sexual relations are suggested but not explicitly stated.”
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Tatchell continues: “What we can say for certain is that the standard, accepted Biblical narrative gives us no information at all about Jesus’s sexuality. This absence of firm information does not, of course, mean that we can take it for granted that Christ was heterosexual.”
So what does it mean then?
“[W]e simply don’t know whether Jesus was straight, gay, bisexual or celibate,” Tatchell writes. “Since nothing in the Bible points to Christ having erotic feelings for women, or relationships with the female sex, the possibility of him being gay cannot be discounted.”
“The Bible tells us that Jesus was born a man and therefore presumably had male sexual feelings,” Tatchell concludes. “It would have been more or less impossible, biologically, for him not to have an element of erotic arousal–even if only having the normal male response of waking with an erection.”
Cue the enraged backlash in 3… 2… 1…
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Pyo Sompop
Andy Munday
Andy Munday
Not sure what a twink is but it sounds depraved. I’ll forward this to all my Christian acquaintances.
Matthew David Thompson
Matthew McMillion
Andy Munday
With a youth he raised from the dead? The son of god was a zombie molester? Oh, it just gets better!
Gerald GeeLocke Panuthos
Jesse Charland… any thoughts? ð??
Alexander R. Rodriguez
Really shows the DEBASED mind of The Gay Left Intillgeista. When does Tatchcell say Muhammed was gay???
windreader
There is no evidence of an earthly Jesus. Paul only refers to a celestial being and the other gospels keep reminding readers that the story is parable. Jesus didn’t walk the Earth and he didn’t have sexual relations with anyone, male or female.
Wayne J. Staib
Jason Perry, looks like the big guy stole your line: “WWJD?”
Victor Barry
God made twinks sexy hot, don’t blame Christ.
Dave Basora
I’m constantly amused and amazed at the never ending speculation on Jesus and either his sexuality or his acceptance of homosexuality in general. Since no one alive now was alive then all anyone can do is speculate and not all that successfully.
So tell me, what does this to by way of reaffirming your faith? How does any of this enrich your life
Verlaine
Some 18 year-old men are God’s most perfect and beautiful creation. They are often flawless, lean, smooth and ripped, absolutely magnificent and frequently gorgeous.
Billyboi777
That is not what that passage says at all.
Ladbrook
Assuming there was a Biblical Jesus, it would make sense that he was, at the very least, typically bisexual in the way that bisexuality was often practiced at that time in history. Meaning: heavy gender segregation, valuing female virginity at marriage, and fathers guarding their daughters chastity all ultimately led to a culture of “appreciating the youthful beauty of boys.” Basically adult men often seduced and used male teens for sexual pleasure, and sometimes fell in love with them. The idea that Jesus might have done the same (or been the boy of an older male when he was teen) is more probable than not.
It’s also possible that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene. As a woman, she would not have wandered around the middle east with a bunch of men if she hadn’t been married to one of them, and she was (supposedly) the one who discovered that his tomb was empty, making him a very important person in her life.
Either way, I doubt he’d have been celibate or a virgin. It defies logic. Then again, I don’t really believe he existed at all, so for me, it’s sort of a moot point.
Mark Villnave
Sick
Robert Kennedy Acosta
Jared Ovitt go figure!
sweven
Hey, Jesus is the Son of God, but He is also God himself. John 14:9 (CEV):
9 Jesus replied:
Philip, I have been with you for a long time. Don’t you know who I am? If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. How can you ask me to show you the Father?,
And I am one with the father (John 10:30)
Being our creator, He is our father. Remember that in the beginning Adam and Eve were naked which suggests God had no problem with that, just the same as a human father does not have any problem with his baby’s nakedness. We were naked in the beginning guys!! It means innocence and fatherly intimacy. In the same sense we are born naked, as the boy was resurrected he was being born again naked, and Jesus was relating to him as a father to His child, we are His babies.
Joel M. Olsen
It’s okay, conservatives, this is according to the storybook – there is still no actual evidence to insinuate Jesus was a real person, and lots of reasons to believe he wasn’t.
GG
Is that Jesus constructing his own cross? With a modern-day plane no less?
The bible has so few photos, I think they should have included this!
Billy Budd
One should not forget how ATTRACTIVE the catholic version of Jesus is. He is blonde, cute, muscular, bearded, sweaty, and ready for action.
Billy Budd
I would have a hard on for Jesus, If I ever met him.
DistingueTraces
This article appears to say that the passage quoted by Tatchell is Mark 10:34-35. It isn’t.
Tatchell’s quote is from a variant, disputed version of the book where a story not included in the Bible is inserted between those two chapters.
Of course, all the gospels were written about 400 years after Christ’s death, so they’re not terrifically useful as guides to his private life, whatever the provenance of the story.
Tobi
BDSM and necrophilia. Who knew?
DistingueTraces
@windreader: I think that’s a strained reading. The gospels dwell at length on the resurrection as a bodily event.
Tatchell isn’t wrong — or even all that shocking to anyone but the bluenosed brigade — in reminding us of the physicality of the incarnation.
Dionicio Elan Pomares
To be clear there is a lot of hidden in plain sight homosexual activities in the Christian Bible, the Jewish Torah, the Jewish Tanakh, the Jewish Talmud, the Muslim Quran, and as well as many other major World religion holy books… So this stuff isn’t new… Especially activities between older men and younger boys…
DarkZephyr
Someone fully resurrected is not a “zombie”. Zombies are walking corpses. A resurrected human being is alive and healthy.
Ogre Magi
I AM SO FREAKING TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT JEBUS ALL THE DAMN TIME!
Boonie Kennard Johnson
I’m positively sure Jesus was a Homosexual..and had male lovers. Jesus was MARRIED to the same Lazarus whom he raised from the dead! Gnostic Writings Revealed!
Billy Budd
Jesus is hot. When I went to church I used to get hardons just by watching him on the cross. I have a weakness for blondes.
Bob LaBlah
I don’t know nor care whether this Jesus was gay not not but I do know he was missing in action the other night in South Carolina. People I think, in light of that mass, premeditated killing that took place, the gay community is showing its ignorance in NOT asking” what’s next, a gay bar perhaps?”
Many of you ignoramuses seem to be unaware that the supremacist doctrine calls for a bullet in our heads just as soon as they are done shooting black people. This “joke” of an article shows poor taste after what just happened. Yes, we HAD better sit up and take notice of what happened to those poor souls whose only mistake was going to church on a weekday night and welcoming with open arms a young, twinkish looking killer who wasn’t there for a god. I keep on seeing something like this happening to a gay bar, where the victims only mistake was going out to socialize with other gay men.
Roy Brandt
They’re so angry dad
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
“It would have been more or less impossible, biologically, for him not to have an element of erotic arousal–even if only having the normal male response of waking with an erection.”
Cue the enraged backlash in 3… 2… 1…”
Asexual..Demisexual..Cupiosexual etc erasure!!!!!
SportGuy
@Bob LaBlah: Very much agreed. The gay community doesn’t care about black people, only about being able to get married so they can continue to cheat on their bf/husbands and open relationships. The community as a whole is sub and disappointing. Maybe once there is a gay massacre they will care, only if they are all white though.
glad2bme
Dave Basora, thank you for your preceding comment–the
only one not silly, bitter, fact-free. This kind of
foolishness is yellow journalism of the most
unhelpful sort.
Clark35
@Dave Basora: Exactly.
Joseph C Landis-Midnight
Why care about an imaginary character?
Finrod
So Jesus was a pioneering lumbersexual?
Transiteer
A not-that-interesting story, on the presumption that there was a Jesus Christ to start with. There wasn’t. He’s an invention of the Romans to placate and control those rebellious Jews. It’s all hooey. And look at all the damage it’s done.
Joseph T.D. Anaya
And in the normal bible Mark 14:50-52 there is that naked boy following him during his capture too.
“50 Then everyone deserted him and fled. 51 A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, 52he fled naked, leaving his garment behind. NIV”
Michael Jarboe
Maybe “raised from the dead” was a euphemism for erectile dysfunction. On a side note this picture is hysterical. Caucasian Jesus finds skinny, blonde white boy in the Middle East.
Bobby Buechler
Who doesn’t??!! ð??ð??ð??
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
He had major issues with wood… preferred to get nailed
Carl Szulczynski
And you might have a thing for stupid.
galatians328
It’s great to live in a land with First Amendment protections, isn’t it? Under that cultural rubric you can blog anything you like. Well, libel and slander are speech but can be litigated, so do be careful about that; oh, and also you can’t incite violence explicitly, or threaten violence explicitly, enunciating a target, etc. If Jesus the Nazarene who was a real person – as well established through historical critical research – were living he/she/they could haul many of you into court for libel and/or slander; Jesus might not win the case – since she/he/they is a public figure (see Hustler Magazine v. Falwell, US Supreme Court) – but you’d spend a lot of time and money on the litigation. Many of you who are using a lot of ‘hate speech’ should now that hate speech if indeed allowable free speech (although we’ve been in many meetings with ignorant queers who chant ‘hate speech is not free speech’ to try to shut down certain speakers; they are obviously hypocrites who want their speech 2 b heard but not the speech of others). But intimidating with violence explicitly and inciting violence explicitly – as many of you have done – could in fact be charged. The law is hold you accountable for intimidation and threats. But common morality holds us accountable for respect beyond any law. It is a shame that so many comments here lack respect for others. We wonder how much queer communities are appreciating their liberties or mis-using their liberties; expanding respect for liberties of others or abusing others and calling that ‘liberty’?
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Does it matter? I think not.
If there is a god who made humankind in his own image he made some people Gay and so, per Christian theology, is bisexecual himself.
Therefore Jesus, as one of the Trinity, would be bisexual too. So what!
If there isn’t a God some people are still Gay and it is Mother Nature’s design.
Either way the world needs tolerance of people as God or Nature made them.
JessPH
Of course, Jesus was gay. He hanged out with twelve men and turned water into wine… a straight messiah would have turned it to beer!
Chris-MI
This is not from the book of Mark. This is from a letter of Clement of Alexandria (ca. 200 AD). The letter claims it was added to a version of Mark that he had seen.
Thing is, the letter is almost certainly a forgery. It has been seen only once, in 1958. Except it wasn’t published until 1973. Photographs exist of it but the original has never been examined properly. The letter was found written on the endpiece of a book from 1640. The man who saw it, and photographed it, was gay. Since then the book has been lost, or hidden.
So you have to consider whether it was written in 1973, 1958, or in 1640, or 200 AD, or 70 AD (the standard date for Mark). The likelihood that it has anything whatsoever to do with the historical figure is slim to none.
For more info, feel free to start here:
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/secretmark.html
Even with the most charitable interpretation of the facts, you have to consider that there are many undisputed early Christian documents that say Jesus has an intimate relationship with Mary of Magdala, who was first called a prostitute by people who disagreed with the various teachings assigned to her.
Isaias Ramos Garcia
he & cousin John the Evangelist were lovers, that is seted! crystalclear in the Evangelions
galatians328
@Joel M. Olsen: Pardon but you have not accurately reported the burden of historical critical evidence. The historical critical evidence is ACTUALLY STRONGER now than even a decade ago.
galatians328
@Michael Jarboe: This is an importnat insight regarding Queerty’s approach to journalism. The depiction in the context of the reporting is clearly anti-Semitic.
galatians328
Mr Tatchell has admitted to having brain damage from assaults on him during anti-homophobia protests in Africa. Mr Tatchell’s coherence – by his own admission – may be in question. Furthermore, Mr Tatchell once advocated for lowering British legal age of consent (down to 14) – which morally amounts to advocating for child rape, since the burden of scientific evidence does not suggest that most 14 year olds are capable of informed consent to sexual intercourse. This sad episode in Mr Tatchell’s long and admirable career of activism is further complicated by the fact that the publisher of the book about lowering the age of consent was a notorious pedophile – an ACTUAL CHILD RAPIST – a fact that Mr Tatchell may or may not have know at the time. Perhaps Queerty should pay more attention to more important issues, and find different persons to present views? : how about poor queer small business owners or laborers in Mississippi? how about poets winning Lambda Literary awards for first books? how about deaf gay people? how about elderly trans people living in nursing homes? …
sweven
Remember that in the beginning Adam and Eve were naked; God had no problem with that, just the same as a human father does not have any problem with his baby’s nakedness. We were naked in the beginning guys!! It means innocence and fatherly intimacy. In the same sense we are born naked, as the boy was resurrected he was being born again naked, and Jesus was relating to him as a father to His child, we are His babies.
Hey, Jesus is the Son of God, but He is also God himself. John 14:9 (CEV):
9 Jesus replied:
Philip, I have been with you for a long time. Don’t you know who I am? If you have seen me, you have seen the Father. How can you ask me to show you the Father?,
And I am one with the father (John 10:30)
Bob LaBlah
@Chris-MI: Remember the guy who made a complete ass out of the Church of Latter Day Saints claiming to have the “original” letters, or the Salamander Letter?
Sean Christopher Hayes
Jesus may also have died of autoerotic asphyxiation on the cross, says me, who is as knowledgeable on Jesus as the chump referenced above.
vonlmo
Hmmm reminds me of the description of the strangers visiting Lot’s house in Sodom & the crowd demanding ” that we might know them”, that the evangelicals claim is a demand for butt-sex.
Vallin
Christ was the first Greek Orthodox.