Here is a reason why gay people should stop worshiping Lord Cartier and focus on our brother Jesus. After all, Jesus was considered the most beautiful man to have ever lived.

Was Jesus Gay?

You Decide


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As Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus few of them will be told in their churches and Cathedrals anything about the sexuality of Jesus, yet a growing group of Biblical scholars believe that Christ may have had at least one sexual relationship with another male.
Noted Methodist theologian Rev. Theodore Jennings Jr. and Dr Morton Smith a world renowned Bible scholar at Columbia University say there is irrefutable evidence that Jesus was at least bisexual. Dr Rollan McCleary of the University of Queensland, in Australia, says he has discovered through his research that three of the disciples were gay.

Prof. Smith points to a fragment of manuscript he found at the Mar Saba monastery near Jerusalem in 1958 which he says alludes to Jesus having a homosexual relationship with a youth he raised from the dead. The fragment shows that the full text of St. Mark, Chapter 10 (between verses 34 and 35 in the standard version of the Bible) includes the following passage:
"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".

Rev. Jennings, a professor at the United Church of Christ's Chicago Theological Seminary, points to the Gospel of St. John. In his recently published book "The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives From the New Testament," Jennings writes that the reference in St John about "the disciple Jesus loved" was actually a reference to Jesus' gay boyfriend.
Jennings also claims the centurion's servant who was healed by Jesus actually was the centurion's gay boyfriend and that Jesus did not denounce their relationship.

Dr McCleary spent the last three years researching “gay spirituality”. His book, "Signs for a Messiah" published earlier this year says that Jesus and at least three of his disciples were gay, and Christianity in general is built on “gay principles”.
McCleary says that Christianity needs to recognize its homosexual roots and abandon the practice of alienating gays and spreading homophobia.

British gay rights advocate Peter Tatchell says even though the information about Jesus' sexuality remains scant, "there is certainly no evidence for the Church's presumption that he was heterosexual. Nothing in the Bible points to him having desires or relationships with women. The possibility of a gay Christ cannot be ruled out."
"Since there is no proof of the heterosexuality of Jesus, the theological basis of Church homophobia is all the more shaky and indefensible," Tatchell said.

"Large chunks of Jesus' life are missing from the Biblical accounts. This has fuelled speculation that the early Church sanitized the gospels, removing references to Christ's sexuality that were not in accord with the heterosexual morality that it wanted to promote", said Tatchell.

The Vatican has denounced the research by Jennings, Smith and McCleary as "heretical". It has also been denounced by Southern Baptists and evangelical Anglicans.

When recently asked if his research might be tainted because he is gay, McCleary said: "You could see that either way. You could also say that heterosexual people have their eyes wide shut on the matter, that they don't want to see that Jesus would have been of gay disposition.

"You maybe have to be gay to read the signals and to see things and research things which other people wouldn't," he added.

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Barbara Streisand

We all know her, unfortunately. But, who would have though she was a blogger?

With the help of her writing staff she actually comes of as semi-intelligent. Never, in her blog does she confuse Iraq for Iran. Instead she expresses poignant and intelligent commentary on hot topics.

Here is a sample.


ON MEDIA BIAS

… the fact that nearly every major news institution in this country is owned by a large corporation indicates that liberal media simply does not exist anymore. Large corporations are more likely to be conservative because, first of all, they get benefits from the tax-cutting, deregulating Republican agenda, and second of all, they have an inherent predisposition towards conservative viewpoints that will not alienate sponsors or political support.

(Flawless Reasoning-Don’t You Think?)

ON TAXES
We also have to understand the connection between taxes and spending. It is our taxes that pay for services, so Bush's two big tax cuts for the wealthy will, eventually, result in a cut in the services that all Americans depend on everyday, unless the tax cuts are repealed.

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Form more enlightenment on these and other subjects visit Barbara at her site.
And tell her that you were sent by the only gay man who doesn’t like her.
http://www.barbrastreisand.com/statements.html

Fascinating claim Mark. Got any evidence?

Many seem to forget that in this country, unlike Saddam’s Iraq, people are innocent until proven guilty.

I am personally fond of Mark Kleiman. He is a wonderful professor. Bright, quick, articulate, never dull, and always challenging. His final exam is the best three hour intellectual orgy I have had in a very long time.

Even though, he offers some good critiques in his “Fair and Balanced Weblog,“ he is hasty in many of his conclusions. I have yet to be convinced that Arnold is really a “serial sexual batterer,” which is defined as “the actual intentional striking of someone, with intent to harm.”

If a young immigrant such as myself can restrain his personal biases, withhold premature judgment, and allow the system to work, why can’t a Harvard educated, US born, academic do the same?
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Will someone please explain to me, slowly and carefully, why we're supposed to be "civil" about this sort of shamelessness? The Governor of California is a serial sexual batterer whose word isn't worth the spit behind it. That's not partisan ranting; that's just a simple statement of fact.
From - http://WWW.markarkleiman.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/204
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Another reason for conservative outrage, or just a simple "doo-dah" good idea?

You Decide.

Washington To Put Free Condom Machines In Gov't Buildings

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The District's health department says it will put 50 plain white dispensers in areas frequented by the public, including the D.C. Housing Authority and the departments of human services, motor vehicles and public works.

"They're going to be as common as water fountains," Ivan O. Torres, interim director of the city's HIV/AIDS Administration, said of the dispensers.

"The mayor is committed to this. . . . This is no longer something to be ashamed of. It affects all of us," Torres told the Washington Post.

In the next 12 months, the district plans to pass out about 550,000 male condoms, 45,000 latex dental dams and about 30,000 female condoms in a variety of venues, including the public school system.

Male condoms cost the city less than a nickel apiece, and female condoms cost several dollars each.

Washington has one of the highest per capita AIDS rates in the nation, about 132 cases per 100,000 residents. In the past 20 years the disease has claimed more than 12,000 lives in the region.


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The mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil is banishing gays.

I like the viagra handouts, but the gay thing is taking it too far. I mean, who will decorate, perform in musicals, and give those macho Brazilian married men the best blowjobs of their lives?


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The mayor of Bocaivua do Sul has issued a decree that bans gays from living in the town in southern Brazil.

"I need to increase the population, by encouraging people to have kids, not with troublemakers," Elcio Berti told the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo.

"When I was a kid I used to live amongst criminals but even so they were all real men," said Berti.

The LGBT group Dignity has filed a human rights suit against the mayor, who is fixated on boosting the town's population.

Earlier this year he banned all birth control methods in Bocaiuva do Sul and in the spring stood in front of city hall handing out free Viagra.
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Just so you know how special we, Armenians, are.



FOR THOUSANDS of years, Armenians have inhabited a homeland in the shadow of Mount Ararat near the Black Sea, where Noah's Ark is said to have landed. The Armenian people are said to descend from Noah's grandson Haik. ("Haikagan" means "Armenian" in the Armenian language.)