Was mankind gay

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  Does Jesus Ever Talk About Homosexuality?

  I was in my mid-20s living in San Diego. I joined some people from a nearby church and went to a Pride parade to pass out water, provide hugs, and hold signs saying “We are sorry the church hasn’t loved you the way Jesus would” (or something along those lines). All of a sudden, I was descended upon by a film crew with a microphone asking me what Jesus had to speak about homosexuality. I was not expecting this, but I was giddy to share the love of Christ and talk about how we are all sinners saved by grace and how Jesus never singled out homosexuality as worse than any other type of sexual immorality. In the middle of my sentence (which I had been certain would be received with amazement, tears, and more questions about how to comprehend this Jesus guy), the film crew interrupted me and said, “NOTHING. He said nothing about homosexuality.” And then they walked away without a synonyms, off to find their next “interview.”

  I sat there dumbfounded. What had just happened? And was it true that Jesus never said anything about homosexuality? And if not, why not?

  Spoiler alert: Jesus really doesn’t ever address homosexuality specifically, and in our cu

  Has 'Homosexual' Always Been in the Bible?

  Reprinted with permission from The Forge Online

  The synonyms “arsenokoitai” shows up in two alternative verses in the bible, but it was not translated to mean “homosexual” until 1946.

  We got to sit down with Ed Oxford at his abode in Long Beach, California and discuss about this ask.

  You have been part of a investigate team that is seeking to grasp how the choice was made to put the synonyms homosexual in the bible. Is that true?

  Ed: Yes. It first showed up in the RSV translation. So before figuring out why they decided to employ that word in the RSV translation (which is outlined in my upcoming book with Kathy Baldock, Forging a Sacred Weapon: How the Bible Became Anti-Gay) I wanted to see how other cultures and translations treated the same verses when they were translated during the Reformation 500 years ago. So I started collecting old Bibles in French, German, Irish, Gaelic, Czechoslovakian, Polish… you mention it. Now I’ve got most European major languages that I’ve collected over time. Anyway, I had a German partner come back to town and I asked if he could help me with some pa

  What is the Queen James Bible?

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  The Queen James Bible (QJV), also called the “Gay Bible,” is an edit of the biblical text done in the name of preventing “homophobic interpretations.” To accomplish this goal, the publishers printed a Bible in which all negative references to homosexualityhave been removed. The Queen James Bible was published in 2012 and is based on the 1769 edition of the King James Bible.
  
  The publishers of the Queen James Bible chose the entitle “Queen James” as an obvious take-off on the “King James” Version, as the Authorized Version of 1611 is commonly called. The publishers of the Gay Bible also claim that King James was bisexual, so their preference of title capitalizes on the slang meaning of the term queen.
  
  The editors of the Queen James Bible, who chose to be anonymous, claim that there was no reference to homosexuality in any Bible translation prior to the 1946 Revised Usual Version. Then, they assert, “anti-LGBT Bible interpretations” arose, based on a faulty translation in the RSV of eight verses.
  
  The unidentified “scholars”—their scholastic credentials are unknown—who produced the Queen James Bible suggest that all Bible trans

  Leviticus 18:22

  “You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”[1] It is not a surprise that this verse seems to say that gay male sex is forbidden in the eyes of God. The dominant view of western Christianity forbids gay relations. This verse is one of the clobber passages that people cite from the Bible to condemn homosexuality. This essay first looks at the various ways the verse is translated into the English Bible and then explores some of the strategies used to create an affirming interpretation of what this corridor means for the LGBTQ community. More specifically, it presents the interpretation of K. Renato Lings in which Lev. 18:22 refers to male-on-male incest.

  While Lev. 18:22 is used to condemn homosexuality, we must be aware that the word “homosexuality” was only recently coined in the English language. So did this term exist in ancient Israel? Charles D. Myers, Jr. confirms that none of the prophets in the Hebrew Bible mention homosexuality.[2] He also contends that in ancient Israel same-sex relations were viewed as an ancient Neighboring East problem. The ancient Near East tradition included pederasty and relations between an older guy and