What Jesus Said about Homosexuality
By Andy Heath
For those of you that have read the whole Bible, or at least all of the Gospels, let me ask you this question? What did Jesus say about homosexuality? What did the founder of the Christian religion say about this heinous sin that seems to take the greatest importance in the minds of Christians?
The answer is this. Nothing. Jesus never mentioned homosexuality. Moses mentioned it in Leviticus and a few other places. The Apostle Paul also mentioned it, but Jesus never said even a word about it. Not one word in his documented life.
I often wonder why Christians have gone off on a tangent about homosexuality and the horrible things gays supposedly do to degrade the morals of our society since their very own Jesus never mentioned this sin. Now he mentioned the sin of prostitution on a number of occasions (which is akin to having sex outside of marriage in the Christians' view), but many Christians find that okay. He even once spared a prostitute from being stoned to death when he said, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone…" or something like that.
The Bible says, "Judge not lest ye be judged." And Jesus said, "Love thy neighbor." Indeed he said, "Love thy enemy." And since Christians often consider themselves the enemies of gays and lesbians, I wonder why they do not love us.
"But we DO love you," they say. "We love the sinner and hate the sin." My response to that is if Christians hate the fact that we're gay, they cannot love us because our sexuality is as much a part of who we are as their sexuality is a part of who they are. Christians not only hate gays, they teach gays to hate themselves and each other. This is wrong. This is absolutely wrong.
Since Jesus said nothing about homosexuality, perhaps it would be better for Christians to mediate on what he said about love. And of course, they can meditate on his statement about getting the board out of their own eyes before getting the splinter out of everyone else's.
