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Row erupts in Australia over 'gay' Jesus play
Jan 20th, 2008 at 10:07pm
 
What do you think sprint, will you wait till the movie version comes out to see this one?

Row erupts in Australia over 'gay' Jesus play: report

http://news.smh.com.au/row-erupts-in-australia-over-gay-jesus-play-report/20080120-1n0g.html

Australian church leaders have condemned a play shortly to open in Sydney depicting Jesus as a gay man who is seduced by Judas, a report said Sunday.

The play, named Corpus Christi, is due to open next month as part of the city's annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Sydney's Sun-Herald newspaper reported.

A senior Sydney churchman called the play "historical nonsense".

"It is deliberately, not innocently, offensive and they're obviously having a laugh about it," Robert Forsyth, Anglican bishop of South Sydney, was quoted saying.

Apart from the relations between Jesus and Judas, the play also features Jesus conducting a gay marriage between two apostles.

The play's director Leigh Rowney, who claims to be a Christian, accepted the play would offend some Christians but said he was keen to provoke debate about Christianity.

"I wanted this play in the hands of a Christian person like myself to give it dignity but still open it up to answering questions about Christianity as a faith system," Rowney was quoted saying.

Playwright Terrence McNally, who is gay, received death threats when the work was performed in the United States, the newspaper said.
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Reply #1 - Jan 21st, 2008 at 10:46am
 
Freedom of speech, I guess.
means I don't have to go and watch it though ??
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Reply #2 - Jan 29th, 2008 at 6:58pm
 
How do we know for sure he wasn't gay?

Not talking about him and Judas getting it on, but what if he was gay and part of him being so awesome was him resisting temptation to see men and that is why he never got married?

Just a thought, and no one living knows his entire life story.
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Reply #3 - Jan 29th, 2008 at 10:05pm
 
midnightcowboy - that is why I like blogs and freedom of speech.
people can say anything, who knows where the topic will go.

thanks for your posting.
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Reply #4 - Feb 29th, 2008 at 10:10pm
 
easel wrote on Jan 29th, 2008 at 6:58pm:
How do we know for sure he wasn't gay?



But he did get married. In fact, he had children and his descendants are somewhere in Roslyn.

Lol.

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Reply #5 - Feb 29th, 2008 at 10:13pm
 
Gay Jesus?

Kinda like the black Jesus that the church cracked the poo about in Madonna's video clip - like a prayer. Well, he certainly wasn't white.
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Reply #6 - Feb 29th, 2008 at 10:18pm
 
:::: EDIT ::::

Oops! I posted on the wrong thread. LOL.




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