November 21, 2008
Jesus Likes Gays, "But Not in That Way"

Brad Taylor Negron | Bio

Here is an impression of Jesus that you can do at parties that is sure to amuse: Pour water on floor, then walk on it. Wait five minutes and wait to see who follows you to the bar.

Proposition 8, which passed with 52 percent of the vote, inserts language into the constitution limiting marriage to one man and one woman. Where does that leave a man that wants to insert himself in another man?

These days being Gay is like being meat in a can--vacuum-sealed sitting on the shelf for years and nothing changes. You're meat with a pause button. One day you have rights, the next you don't. One day you're on the platter getting cut into, the next your back on the shelf and again--the church has spoken...

But what they are saying has violated the Constitution. We're a nation of laws, not moral "convictions"--no matter how true you (or your religion) believe them to be. What the Church fails to understand is that Jesus would have voted "No" on the ban. Jesus was anti-tradition and hung out with lepers and prostitutes and turned over tables at the Temple Mount. This describes half the gay bars in America. So it's no surprise that, next to "The Manhole," "The Temple Mount" is the most popular name for a gay bar in America.

Read your Bible--Jesus loved giving free shots, look at the wedding in Cana, which is widely used as proof that Jesus turned water into wine. Only a bartender in a gay bar (or Charles Shaw) can do such a thing.

The wedding in Cana was probably a same sex one. Approximately one out of every ten men is gay. There were twelve apostles...Do the math. Surely at least one of those apostles was a little light in his sandals. The last supper looks like Halloween on Christopher Street--and Leonardo da Vinci was there. What further proof do we need?

Prop 8 is not an amendment but a revision: it conflicts with California's Equal Protection Guarantee, which protects minority groups from the whims of the majority by subjecting the majority to the same laws that it would impose on the minority.

Prop 8 is unconstitutional and was improperly enacted by thieves, seducers, liars and church gangsters: Mormons, who are firm believers in traditional marriage--one man and at least five women.

But there is blame to be shared. For a long time I lived in West Hollywood and watched young gay men strolling through life having no idea what came before. They didn't know about the riots at Stonewall, the vice squad, the raids. They only know about 17 types of bench presses; it's hard to form a revolution in Pilates class.

Have you been to a gay bar lately? The techno trance circuit music is so loud that you can't hear yourself think (and you can barely hear that the guy next to you isn't thinking), so forget hearing the rally cry for change. An informed gay opposition would have let the world know last year that Pat Robertson invented the Dirty Sanchez and that Jerry Falwell was the genius behind the circle jerk.

Religion is acting as the enforcer of the state...imposing a moral uniform. Well some uniforms don't fit and can some of us look like fashion/moral victims

I have often heard, "What would Jesus do?" But I say, "What would Jesus not do?" I don't think Jesus would deprive a child of a loving home from someone because they are Gay. I don't think Jesus would approve of Kirk Cameron (or any cast member of Growing Pains) speaking on behalf of his father.

I do think Jesus would skip church on Sunday morning and instead visit the nursing homes and retirement homes where so many have abandoned their loved ones. I think Jesus would be celebrate in moderation, go to Super Cuts and use Teatree shampoo and volunteer to clean up the litter along the highway.

Maybe you are like me--you do not believe scripture should be interpreted literally. I have been doing my homework. When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the people in the Church could write.

Thankfully California's highest court has agreed to hear the case be argued; that voters alone did not have the authority to enact such a significant constitutional change.

So perhaps this senseless ban on the human heart will be sped through the courts and families can truly come together and most importantly young gay kids can stand up straight in our country and feel equal to all.

This election season, we all learned a lot. I never realized that Africa is a continent. And it's good to know that change really can happen when you have Facebook, hope, knowledge, and a few hundred million dollars more than the other side.

Here is my take on the Jesus and New Testament in Hollywood terms: Boy gets world. Boy loses world. Boy becomes Lord and Savior...world ends in hellfire. Gays marry. And no one ever has to lie down on a bench press again.