7.28.2003
on the occation of the upcoming Episcopal Church gathering in Minn:
When Christianity moved out of the Jewish orbit and into the Mediterranean world it confronted a dualistic neo-Platonism that denigrated the flesh and suggested that marriage was a compromise with sin. The holy life was interpreted to be the celibate life. This, in turn, attracted men into the priesthood who, because of their homosexual desires, wanted to hide from the pressure to get married. The evidence is clear that the priesthood of the Western Church became the largest closet in which gay men hid their sexual orientation during the middle Ages. This theory has been fully documented in a monumental study on homosexuality in the Church up until 1400 by Yale historian John Boswell....
- John Spong via TheyBlinked
When Christianity moved out of the Jewish orbit and into the Mediterranean world it confronted a dualistic neo-Platonism that denigrated the flesh and suggested that marriage was a compromise with sin. The holy life was interpreted to be the celibate life. This, in turn, attracted men into the priesthood who, because of their homosexual desires, wanted to hide from the pressure to get married. The evidence is clear that the priesthood of the Western Church became the largest closet in which gay men hid their sexual orientation during the middle Ages. This theory has been fully documented in a monumental study on homosexuality in the Church up until 1400 by Yale historian John Boswell....
- John Spong via TheyBlinked