02/16/2004: "This is how extreme gay theologians must get to defend themselves"

I read this article last week and decided not to post it because it was so extreme it didn't seem worth responding to. But with everything that has happened in regards to gay marriage in the last week, when I re-read it because I saw it through another blog, I saw it as amazingly important.

A few quotes from the article:

'"Christianity in its roots is a very queer religion," said Jay Johnson, programming and development director for the center and a rising star among queer theologians. "We're talking about an itinerant preacher who was unmarried in a society that was built on family relations, who hung out with all the weirdos and the freaks, who said they have a much better chance of getting into the kingdom of God than the religious leaders do, who was tortured and killed by the state, and whose resurrection was reported by a bunch of hysterical women. This is really queer stuff. Right?"'

'... the question about openly gay and lesbian clergy is just a no-brainer," he said. "Of course, our critics haven't gotten past that. ... It's the arguments we've heard ad nauseam for decades and decades and decades -- as if none of those arguments had before been refuted."'

(In reference to one of Paul's condemnations of Homosexuality) "The 'exchanged' indicates that they had some other options. ... The only people Paul was talking about were heterosexuals who became involved in homosexual relationships."

"I'd like to think that two thousand years of Christianity might have led us to a slightly better moral sense about the world than the authors of the Bible had."

(speaking of Paul) "He took all his erotic energy, and probably fears about male sexuality, and channeled it into an erotic relationship with Christ."

Need I go on (there's plenty more)? The problem isn't that they're wrong, it is that there is a subset of the world that is listening to these people. I have a lot more respect for the gay people of the world who just disregard Christ, or even those who just argue that the bible wasn't written for today's people, but to COMPLETELY re-write the bible and the people in it, it's just dispicable.

Later in the article a reference is made to the same point that is in "The DaVinci Code" about Jesus being married. People who think "The DaVinci Code" is harmless, don't realize that the road their heading down is the destruction of the Bible. It leads to articles like this.