It is not the first time it has been suggested though that Jesus was gay.

I seem to remember many years ago the editor of a magazine got charged with blasphemy, fined £500 and had a nine month jail sentence imposed (that was supended tp 18 months).

Google reveals Dennis Lemon, the then editor of Gay News, took the brunt for Gay News (which was also fined £1000) in July 1977, for blasphemous libel after it published James Kirkup's poem, The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name.

Could Jesus have been gay? I actually doubt it very much. Considering how much attention has been given the man and they way he was followed by so many, no way could it have been hidden. He would likely not have reached the cross had it been found he was gay. They would have stoned him to death long before no doubt. The joke that he hung out with 12 men all the time gives no weight at all to the arguments. He also loved women for sure. So many kinds of love but all with the same basic emotion.

On the theoretical aspects of Jesus being gay I have no problems at all. If he had been it makes no difference at all to his message of love and forgiveness. Because some see being gay as a sin then Jesus could not be gay because he was perfect... but that is only if you believe it to be a sin. I don't. Jesus never spoke out against gay people ever. He really did love all men... and women. "Love each other as I have loved you"... "Greater love has no man than he would lay down and die for his friend". Many many people have laid down and died for their friends. It does not make them gay.

Was Elton John courting controversy? Does he have need to? I suppose he just expressed hos own thoughts/opinions. No way could he say it and it be ingnored.

As for his songs. I think he produced the best stuff when he worked with Bernie Taupin. Some of the songs back then were heartbreakers. Of late the only one that really hit me was "Candle in the Wind". The man does have talent. It may not be folk but it is talent nonetheless.

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