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Terrence Leveck's avatar

I am indifferent to other peoples’ gender orientation, but I discovered when my wife and I attended the wedding of gay friends that there is someone for everybody.

The older I get the more I’m guided by my intuition. My first impression when looking at the Paris Olympics photo was that it was in fact depicting the Last Supper, and I was somewhat surprised that my reaction to it was not negative. I could be wrong, but I don’t think it was meant to be mocking. As the French spokesperson said, I think they meant to be inclusive.

It was different, far from traditional, and if their intent was to be disparaging then the outraged response to it is justified. But the more I looked, the more I felt just possibly that they were filtering the Christ phenomenon through their own experiences and perceptions, and they wanted to express it. As I write this I’m recalling that the painter of the greatest work of art that I have ever personally experienced, was in fact gay.

When I ask myself what Jesus would do, I think he would cut them some slack.

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Donna Carlson's avatar

You are extremely good at rationalization. The spectacle was was intended to be shocking and intended to be an “in your face” insult to the straight, Christian world. Incidentally, it was also offensive to people of many other religious persuasions (think Islam) and decent people of good taste whether or not religious. The LGBTQ plus community is grooming the world! Our children and grandchildren will pay the price.

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