Our Fallen Gay Leaders: What if Jesus was finally Outed?

The number of upright Republican and Evangelical leaders being ‘outed’ as closet gays has been quite the spectacle. It has gone a long way to bring down the neo-conservative ascendancy of the last quarter century.

I have been reading a wonderful book called ‘Northrop Frye Unbuttoned.’ The great literary scholar showed us how the Bible is the very structure of our thought patterns now.

He speculated on something that raised my eyebrows: Jesus was gay. Frye made this observation, based on the Church’s version of things, well before the gay rights movement began.

Its not that far-fetched. While contemporary concerns have been about taking the misogyny out Christianity, the odd, constant references in the Gospels about Jesus’ ‘beloved,’ John, has escaped much scrutiny. Why the gay community has not picked up on this in its struggle is bewildering. Wouldn’t Jesus take precedence over St. Paul’s few words on the subject?

Of course, Jesus is just a myth. Everything in the Bible was written third-hand, decades after his death. And academics have pretty much put a sword to the sacred texts’ solid authenticity. All we really know is that he left quite an impression.

What has kept us off-guard of what the Bible says? Nothing written about Jesus is ever taken literally. He deliberately confused everyone, contradicted everything he said, and acted in the most bizarre manner.

There is a lot of heterosexual self-interest involved. Women don't want to believe in a gay Jesus. Most women want to be Mary Magdeline, the reformed whore whom the man-of-love chose. This is to counter the misogyny of the Church, by showing that Christ actually liked women and would support the women's movement and the heterosexual.

The latest religious controversy in popular culture, "The Da Vinci Code," has a vested interest in Jesus having kids to support the secret of Jesus’ true political intent, to spawn the aristocracy in Europe. So Leonardo Da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper, with the androgynous figure beside the Messiah, re-interpreted as Mary Magdeline, inspires hope that Jesus had a healthy sexuality toward women.

The Roman Catholic Church is filled with celibate priests, many of who are gay and won't admit it. Denying one’s own true sexuality has serious psychological consequences, many of which are not good. The epidemic of serial pedophile priests, and the Vatican’s complicity in protecting them over the victims, shows an institution in denial. It goes all the way up to the pope, who now has sole oversight on these cases. The Holy See has obstructed justice and moved these criminals to other parishes when cases are brought before them. What is wrong with the truth in the House of God?

A celibate male priesthood reflects a homosexuality that has not come to terms with itself. Theologically, both represent an act of love combined with an act of non-creation. This delves into the problem of impotency, where all that is controlled is one’s meaning, not life outside the mind. It claims an omnipotence with a male God who creates all by himself without help from someone else’s womb.

Could the Church be having problems accepting Jesus as a homosexual? And the rest of us heterosexuals have been the recipients of the Church’s sexual hang-ups?

Wasn't Jesus’ beloved, John, the only disciple to have died a natural death? I believe the Romans boiled him in oil... and he actually survived! Bit of symbolism there.

And Christianity has always been, culturally, about loving your fellow man, not woman. Why can't we love other men the way Jesus did?

No wonder a definition of Christianity is ‘sexual intolerance.' It is, at its very foundation, about controlling life and Creation.

The Church as a community of loving men. How we've warped things the way we want and are afraid to face it. Jesus was God we insist, more God than man, so we don't have to think of his humanity outside of the 'ouch' of the cross.

Civilization has always been screwed-up about Creation. Look at our problems with nature now. Its called the environment, a concept, that we can fix it like a car engine instead of respecting the truth that it is life. It fits. The Christian definition of reality is only God, humans and inert matter. We treat non-human life like an object. Man’s primary relationship is with a male God, based on consciousness, not creation.

The one base question of Christianity is: why was Jesus so confusing?

Everything he did was a puzzle, a contradiction, or some bizarre act that contravened the laws of nature. Nothing ever made sense, and yet he was in control of reality like no one else in history.

Jesus was threatening Judgment, needing to take him internally through the mass, and acting the dominant through which men must submit. It drove the civilized mind's ‘will-to-power’ nuts. Much easier to lend a heterosexual interpretation on it to avoid deeper issues. We were having enough problems with the miracles and resurrections.

How could Jesus manipulate Creation, in effect inert matter, with just a thought? Is the nature of Creation something that we are just 'not getting?' How can we get his power so we don't have to buckle under anyone's authority and control?

The civilized mind's control issue involves who has the authority to choose meaning and impose it on others. The Church fits this bill. It will decide its own truth, not what it really is.

The Church is the model for the tension and confusion over the nature of reality. It teaches that reality is only God, humans and inert matter. Then it produced this bizarre story about Jesus' life to assume authority over reality that breaks all these rules, and cannot be hammered down in concrete terms.

By keeping such insecurity so vivid and alive, and maintaining a monopoly on its meaning, the Church reigned for 2000 years.

When you put Jesus into a homosexual context, it fits with everything else that is bizarre about Christ and the evolution of the Church. Deny yourself, deny your sexuality, married people are below the clergy. Heterosexuals just didn't understand the Church's game.

There was Peter, the epitome of heterosexuality, with a wife, kids, a thriving fishing business, trying to figure out this anomaly of a powerful homosexual. No wonder it took the Pentecost to get the Disciples out of their confusion. Jesus was saying to love your fellow man. But they just wanted to screw all the women!

Of course, as everyone outside of Western religion knows, there is no gender in the spirit world. Jesus was simply pointing that out. And on every level, Jesus was saying that our meaning about the nature of reality is all wrong.

But we had to fit Jesus into civilized terms, which means heterosexual terms. And we have Genesis to back up the 'natural order' of things.

We want to create life from the knowledge we have. The civilized mind is confused by the infinite meaning that wisdom creates. We think that the natural order of heterosexuality is 'wisdom' from God.

No. It was merely this weird reality we live in, created by God for Adam to live through the mind, knowledge, which he chose. Using the mind instead of the heart, Adam was left to pick and choose his own meaning, instead of through wisdom, which is truth, love, reality and spirit.

This is the structure of this laboratory we call civilization, mind-man, knowledge culture, out of sync with actual spiritual reality.

Jesus basically shows how far off base civilization is in its perception of what reality is. Being gay fits the Jesus pattern perfectly. And no one really takes Jesus or the Bible literally. Not even the fundamentalists and evangelicals. We will listen to St. Paul. We still reject Jesus. We will choose the meaning we like.

The scandals of secretly gay leaders of late are just following in the same denial that Christianity has always exhibited. Their hypocrisy has caused a lot of suffering because they could not come to terms with their own truth.

Jesus never had an issue with homosexuality. He was the Son of God.