Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself

So in Australia during the Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras a new play is going to be performed. A play called Corpus Christi. A play that depicts Jesus as a man infatuated with Judas and who even preforms a marriage between two Apostles.

Now understandably many people are upset about this play, I'm just not sure that I'm one of them. I understand how it could offend the "sensibilities" of some people. I can even see how some would think that it is an attack on their religion. But is it truly?

The playwright himself is a Christian (in the article he "claims he is Christian" like someone who writes something like that play couldn't really be a Christian or something). If that is a way that he views the Christ story is that really a bad thing?

It's not like the Danish cartoons who were draw by non-Muslims and portrayed the Prophet as a terrorist, bringing harm to others.

I cannot believe that a man loving a man, or a woman loving a woman, would bring harm to others. Nothing in this world would change my thoughts on that.

And this will be the point when people start saying (if they haven't already) "But it's a sin. The Bible says so". Yes you are right the Bible does say so. In Leviticus, where it also says not to eat shellfish, or to work on the Sabbath. So who gets to choose what rules stick and what rules don't?

When I first came out I told a friend who I thought I could trust. She told me I was going to Hell. When I told my Psychiatrist about that he said that 10 percent of *all* species are gay. He also said that God doesn't make mistakes.

So can we be sure that Jesus wasn't part of that 10 percent? Can we be sure that he was? No and no. So instead of debating about what Jesus liked why don't we focus on what Jesus taught, for example, (a quote that also appears in Leviticus) "love thy neighbour as thyself".

"Then said Jesus ... Go, and do thou likewise." Luke 10:37

Don't just preach it, do it.