Pro-LGBT Catholic Bible Commentary Sparks Mockery
by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:
Protestant apologists are ridiculing Pope Francis and the Catholic Magisterium for granting approval to a Catholic biblical commentary that insists that the Bible does not condemn “same-sex love” as it is understood today.
The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century teaches, “The Bible does not speak about same-sex love as one does today,” since the “modern concept of ‘homosexuality’ or ‘homoeroticism'” was not known as a sexual orientation in antiquity.
The commentary has a foreword by Pope Francis and has been granted a nihil obstat (“nothing obstructs”) and imprimatur (“let it be published”), which, according to the imprint, “are declarations that the material is free from doctrinal or moral error.”
‘Woke Propaganda’
Popular Protestant apologist Dr. James White condemned the book, saying in a YouTube video, “This has nothing to do with exegesis. This is woke propaganda masquerading as biblical commentary and scholarship.”
Mocking the Magisterium for endorsing the commentary in his video published Friday, White asked if there was “a consistency” in Francis “supporting those who are seeking LGBTQ inclusion and having just released a letter giving pastoral freedom in certain circumstances to bless same-sex unions.”
‘Clobber’ verses?
According to the commentary, so-called anti-LGBT biblical verses cannot be used to forbid same-same acts because “the anal penetration of a male by a male was a way to denigrate the penetrated one, to humiliate strangers or the inferior party in warfare.”
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