Texas Clergy Unite Against Gay Jesus Play
SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS
By Abe Levy
TEXAS - Like-minded interfaith leaders stood in solidarity Tuesday on Main Plaza to denounce a local theater's scheduling of a controversial play that portrays Jesus and his disciples as gay men. “Corpus Christi,” written by Texas playwright Terrence McNally, pulls from the classic passion-play narrative with a coming-of-age story set in the 1950s South Texas town of the same name. In the play, Jesus grows up to discover a same-sex attraction, endures bullying and later presides over a gay wedding where he's called “King of Queers.” The clergy included nine people from Episcopal, Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, Muslim and Presbyterian backgrounds, as well as the head of an interfaith network called the San Antonio Community of Congregations. They did not speak about their differing stances on the hot-button issue of homosexuality, instead focusing on their shared opposition to the play's profanity, sexual vulgarity and irreverence of the central figure in the Christian faith. [link]
By Abe Levy
TEXAS - Like-minded interfaith leaders stood in solidarity Tuesday on Main Plaza to denounce a local theater's scheduling of a controversial play that portrays Jesus and his disciples as gay men. “Corpus Christi,” written by Texas playwright Terrence McNally, pulls from the classic passion-play narrative with a coming-of-age story set in the 1950s South Texas town of the same name. In the play, Jesus grows up to discover a same-sex attraction, endures bullying and later presides over a gay wedding where he's called “King of Queers.” The clergy included nine people from Episcopal, Catholic, Jewish, Lutheran, Muslim and Presbyterian backgrounds, as well as the head of an interfaith network called the San Antonio Community of Congregations. They did not speak about their differing stances on the hot-button issue of homosexuality, instead focusing on their shared opposition to the play's profanity, sexual vulgarity and irreverence of the central figure in the Christian faith. [link]
