UK Bishop Alan Wilson on Jesus’ ‘Queering Project’
by Jeffrey Walton, Juicy Ecumenism:
Jesus Christ subverted traditional teaching about marriage and family, building a foundation that would eventually support same-sex marriage, according to a Church of England bishop.
“It’s the queering – the subversion – that actually is the power in the religion, not literalism about what was in the book,” proposed Bishop of Buckingham Alan Wilson at a gathering of academics and social activists. “The Bible turns out to be quite a supple document that reflects the cultures of the society which produced it.”
Wilson offered a keynote address on “Same-sex marriage and the queering project of Jesus” at the seventh Queering Paradigms Conference held in the Cayman Islands June 11-12 at the auditorium of the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce. Sponsored and hosted by the “Queering Paradigms Network” of Canterbury Christ Church University, UK., the conference challenged restrictions on homosexual practice in several Caribbean island nations.
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