Gay Marriage & Christianity: Not Always At Odds!
Posted by: Simcha Whitehill
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11:00AM, Monday August 25th 2008
Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi just tied the knot last weekend officially making gay marriage trendhunter worthy. But according to Professor John Boswell, the former chairman of the history department at Yale University, gay marriage is an old-fashioned institution getting a new page in the history books. The Ivy League teacher has done extensive research on homosexuality throughout the ages and discovered that early Christians, including the Pope, were so cool with same-sex committed relationships, they even adorned their churches with frescoes of sweet man love. A painting found at St. Catherine’s Monastery in Mt. Sinai, Israel, depicts two early Christian Saints, St. Sergius and St. Bacchus, getting married back in the 4th Century, with Jesus as the best man. Accounts of their sainthood, up through the 10th Century New Testament, openly united and acknowledged them as “lovers.” But they’re just the tip of the gay Christian iceberg!
Early Christian documents with ceremonial instructions for the “Office of Same-Sex Union” and the “Order for Uniting Two Men” have also been uncovered. These rituals, which included a kiss, the taking the eucharist, and a traditional feast, are also seen depicted in the illustrations of Basil I, a Byzantine Warrior-Emperor in the 9th Century who married his lover, John. Across the globe, Irish Historian, Gerald of Wales, recorded many a same sex marriage from the 12th and 13th Century and a 14th century Serbian Slavonic tome discussed a homosexual ceremony with the Gospel. Even the Pope himself presided over 13 gay marriages in Rome alone in 1578. So when did gay rights go wrong? It’s unclear, but if fashion can bring back the neon ‘80s, anything is possible! And now it’s gay marriage’s turn. Sure, we may not have golden frescoes of Elton John tying the knot just yet, but at least Hallmark has already started printing a line of gay marriage greeting cards. Congrats to all the new couples taking the ye ole Christian gay wedding plunge! [Colfax Record via Fark]
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bunnymatic
wrote on August 25 2008 @ 12:14 pm: [report]
love this article. thanks for posting it.
Chaplin
wrote on August 26 2008 @ 02:32 am: [report]
What is Christianity? Is it not a belief system centered around Christ? All Christians believe that the bible is the supreme and sovereign word of God and the bible certainly is AGAINST same sex marriages. As with all other religions, just because someone did something does not make it right. I am not a zealot, but i do believe that Christianity is against same sex marriages and i dont hate gays and lesbians because i believe that God does not want us to, but he shuns what they do.
peter
wrote on August 26 2008 @ 02:10 pm: [report]
GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE NOT ADAM AND STEVE this is just wrong and them two saints werent of god if they went against the bibles teaching of gays. Why is the media trying to give a bad name for christians its just wrong
atlgirl
wrote on August 26 2008 @ 02:20 pm: [report]
If God made all things, then I think he made Adam and Eve AND Adam and Steve and Portia and Ellen.
Amelia
wrote on August 26 2008 @ 02:25 pm: [report]
And also Adam who USED to be Eve and Eve who used to be Adam! Sometimes God makes mistakes.
Chaplin
wrote on August 27 2008 @ 04:33 am: [report]
I agree wholeheartedly that God made them all, Adam, Eve, Steve, Portia and Ellen, lol, but i believe that without a doubt he made Eve to be Adams wife, Steve to be Adams friend/ Brother, Portia to be Eve’s Sister/ Friend and lets make Ellen the daughter, lol. But Adam should not be doing anything unholy with Steve. GOD DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES!!!!!!! If Adam becomes Eve, then that just disrupts God’s Purpose and plan for their lives now, doesn’t it. If there is a God, then there must be a purpose for creation, thus a purpose for every life. This means that if he made Adam ADAM, THEN HE HAS A REASON AND PLAN ABOUT IT. DON’T TRY TO CHANGE GODS PLAN.
Doug Lawrence
wrote on August 31 2008 @ 11:29 pm: [report]
Your erroneous post about St. Sergius and St. Bacchus is the lowest form of character assassination.
Sergius and Bacchus were martyrs ... not gay lovers.
The Church canonized them together because they died together, witnessing for Jesus Christ and the Catholic faith.
There was no marriage. There could not have been, and neither of these saints were gay.
Both were certainly in love with Jesus Christ, and they willingly suffered and died for their faith.
That is what is memorialized in the painting.
Your gay professor Boswell is a deceiver and a cheat, and you are a fool for willingly passing along his lies.
lovers4life
wrote on August 4 2009 @ 03:19 am: [report]
who says god didnt make adam and steve cause i am gay and i believe that i was born like this cause i have never had a girlfriend i have had several boyfriends but like i said who says god didnt make adam and steve.