by The Devils Own on August 3rd, 2007

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Why is talking about Jesus's sexual orientation off-limits?

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by Magenta on August 3rd, 2007
No topic is ever off-limits to an open mind.

I know of nothing to indicate Jesus was gay- but there are texts that indicate he may have been straight, not asexual.

Yes, the DaVinci code was a fictional book, but some of the apocryphal texts referred to in the book are real- stating how Mary Magdalene was his most beloved, and that he would frequently kiss her on the lips.

I have no clue why so many Christians want to cling to the concept of an asexual Jesus, when there is nothing in the Bible to suggest he would not have human drives. He ate food so he must have felt hunger, he slept so he must have felt tired, so why shouldn't he feel desire?
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by Im Alec has abandoned this account on August 3rd, 2007
Since we have no information whatsoever about his sexual orientation, any discussion is likely to be people projecting their own opinions on to him. Thus gay people will say "well, he might have been gay - ge never married, after all", whereas homophobes will say "it is obvious that he had to be straight because he was a man like all the majority of other men". Much heat will be generated, and no light at all. There is no evidence at all, and nothing to speculate from.
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by AntigoneRising on August 5th, 2007
Probably because the Jesus character is considered by Christians to be above any sort of in-depth character analysis that so much as casts doubt on their belief of him. Christians also have this odd idea that being gay is somehow offensive, or a character flaw.

So, you can talk about how Quan-Yin is androgenous and painted as a transexual. You can talk about other deities' sexual tendencies, but NOT Jesus. He's "special".

Because they are in the majority, they can easily enforce this.
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by Brian I on August 3rd, 2007
It appears not to be off-limits. You do it frequently, although you have yet to find any evidence because none exists to point anybody in one direction or the other. Probably people take offence because they consider this question and others like it to be in poor taste. I certainly do and I'm not even a Christian. Just to demonstrate your even-handedness are you going to start on the prophet Mohammed next?
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by CathyS on December 31st, 2007
It's not off limits.
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by LadyLuck on August 3rd, 2007
Die hard Christians have a problem with that and the very idea that there could be someone running around that Jesus spawned. No real reason for it, I don't think, other than people getting all irritated and ruffled when you challenge their way of thinking.
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by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on August 3rd, 2007
Why would his sexual orientation even be in question? Statistically he would be straight like the greatest majority of all living things on this planet. What indication do you have that he was abnormal?
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by Emma is sick of ignorant bullies on September 6th, 2007
It's doubtful he ever existed. If he did-statistically he would have been heterosexual. However, it never mentions him with a woman, so maybe he was gay, as he was always hanging aroung with men. People don't like discussing it because most Christians think sex is dirty.
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by American idle on August 3rd, 2007
Only to christians, because they don't have a bible quote for it. NO, you don't, not for Jesus specifically. So, when you DR me, think of that.
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by Dre on August 3rd, 2007
I don't really think Jesus was attracted to anyone. If you think about it, Jesus probably loved everyone like they were his children (He was God made man after all) and not in a sexual way. It would be like a father liking his daughter or son.
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by Amorphous Blob on August 3rd, 2007
The puritan Christian attitude (in practice, if not in actual doctrine) that sex is somehow sinful. Also, why bother to think that he was gay? Also, I agree with ImAlec's answer.
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by Da Azian Boi on August 3rd, 2007
Committed Christians might take it as offensive if you discuss it.
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by Twhupfold on August 5th, 2007
Because Religions have become used to the idea of being unquestionable as of late, and Christianity is the biggest one.

The problem runs far deeper than just Jesus's sexual orientations, I have been seriously threatened for much, much less in my time... Christianity is one of the religions that is becoming more and more violently opposed to being questioned (nostalgia for their glory days long since past, no doubt...)

Thankfully the most passionate groups seem to be in the US, which has a constitution both guaranteeing freedom of religion and freedom of speech, so at least within the US talking about it isn't off-limits, it'll just get people riled up : )
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by Special K on March 12th, 2009
why- is he gay? ha
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by aaa on December 17th, 2007
Maybe we're all afraid those crazy Christians would start burning cars and beheading people if you said something derogatory about JC. LOL!
Sorry to be vulgar, but it's just the way I am. I wish Jesus had a coupla hundred kids. It would be a shame that a man who was so clued in on life and people wouldn't have children to carry on.
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by Abbyguy on August 3rd, 2007
It's not. He did not need anyone to fullfill His mission on earth. It would have been a burden on Him with the lifestyle He lead. Plus if He was created in the image of God and God detests the gay lifestyle then it would not fit at all.
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by CrabSawser on March 12th, 2009
Maybe because his sexual orientation was so obvious.
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by philosopher-saint on May 17th, 2008
I dunno. In light of the tenets of his philosophy/morality, what possible difference could it haved made anyway?! I suppose, to answer your question tho', the "riductio ad absurdum" is homosexual panic, maybe?
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by purplecows on May 15th, 2008
Because St. Augustine (an ex-Manichee) brought anti-sexual, anti-flesh feelings into Christianity when he helped invent it.
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by LashTyphoon on February 22nd, 2008
I always said Who cares if he laid with Mary Mag. why?
If "jesus" (i call him Yahshuah)Is God (Yahweh), and God, in essence laid with other women, That why could'nt he in the 3rd dimension? Last time i checked, Sex was'nt a sin. And Mary Mag. wasnt even a Whore. People gotta try to not be so carnal and think with the spirit.
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by singwell-is off researching a lot on February 22nd, 2008
Jesus was God in human form, and I am sure He was tempted by all the sexual variants available in a Romanised city. The writer to the Hebrews says that He was tempted in every way we are, yet he did not sin.
It's not off limits to talk about it. It just was not an important part of Jesus' ministry. He did not ever envision marrying and raising a family as did his contemporaries. He knew he was here for a short time and for a specific purpose: to die and rise again.
The prophet Isaiah writes 400 years before his coming that the Messiah would leave no physical descendants.
"By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
And who can speak of his descendants?
For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken." Isaiah 53:8
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by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on December 15th, 2007
Jesus is portrayed as being asexual. That seems to be the way Christians like it.
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by peterpam on November 22nd, 2007
It clearly is not off limits because many people are talking about it all of the time it seems.
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by HarleyDiva on October 9th, 2007
Because we are fearful of the answer. We are all sexual beings. We do not want to hear that Jesus was against pre-marrage sex....adultery....or gay sex. Because that would mean a change in us that we may not be willing to lay down for our lord. But our Lord laid down His Life for us. I am in a Lesbian relationship & have been for 15 yrs. I love my partner with all my heart. I also love the Lord Jesus Christ with more than all my heart. I know Jesus was against adutlery....fornacation...but not sex within marriage. He personally choose to be celibate. Since I am not sure how God see's marriage in his own view...I and my partner choose to be celibate.....that's safe in our view. I love my partner and want to spend the rest of my life with her...and I want to spend all enturnity with her also. So we BOTH agree to being celibate...and we talk frankly to each other & are sure it is well with us. God is against immorality...not the person..gay or straight. I can not change who I am...I am lesbain. It's not about who I am...it's about what I do. He died for all of us...and our sin is covered with His bloody sacrifice. If we choose to accept his gift...then He accepts us...not our sin. That is over by our own choice...we lay it down. What ever that sin is....and Jesus will help us through whatever we must overcome in order to be with Him. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.
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by Tom on September 5th, 2007
When the bible was canonized into its current form, scholars of the day reviewed all available text, concluding that only those that showed Jesus as “God” should be included. While some text mentioned his orientation (the most popular being claims he and Marry M. were married), they were not considered relevant to the story.
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by Esteban-- Smart ass Pumpkin on August 5th, 2007
because in all my reading of the Bible there is no reference to "Jesus Christ-Super Stud"
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by Anonymous on August 22nd, 2009
Sex is life-affirming and Christianity is a death cult.
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by DannysUlto on June 29th, 2009
Maybe because no one knows if he ever existed, let alone if he was gay, bi, straight or asexual.

And many christians are homophobic.
Go figure.
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by Opinion-man on March 10th, 2009
These are so exasperating! We know NOTHING AT ALL about Jesus' sex life. In fact, we only know about Jesus thru writings that a committee decided was accurate, and the Gospels were written 70 yrs or so after Jesus lived ( and after the writings of Paul, did you know that?) So they're hardly factual.
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by Razzle-Fratchit on October 15th, 2008
It's not off-limits. It's just frivolous and pretty stupid. It's like "talking about" Shaka Zulu's race, Dolly Madison's gender, or Martin Luther's religion.

(*Please note, before I get a whole bunch of dum comments from people blind to the obvious, by "talking about" I mean "arguing/supposing that it was something other than what it manifestly was, ignoring the evidence that does exist and postulating the posibility of a whole bunch of hypothetical "evidence" that does not.")
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by tomsims on September 30th, 2008
It is not off-limits, but it is speculative and there is no biblical or credible historical reference to it.
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by Wise Latina on September 15th, 2008
I might be wrong, but I think that when God became man, hopefully he experienced all of what it means to be a man....lust, desire. beauty, tenderness, romance, that warm fuzzy feeling....it doesn't really matter to me, I dont think it affects the gospel.
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by Scifisuz on September 10th, 2008
Makes him sound human....like the possibility that he had siblings, a wife, children....
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by maS elcnU on July 28th, 2008
The same way to speak about Satan's sexual orientation.

My 2 cents.
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by maS elcnU on June 24th, 2008
These topics are part of the agenda of the new era to promote confusion in Christianity.

My 2 cents.
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by P. W. Pasobrio loves Marines on June 6th, 2008
I have no idea other then it might upset the Christian sensability that Jesus was a man who some how was not human in his desires or body. It stikes me as odd they can except him as human in every facette, but this. After all how else would he full understand what being a man is if he has no sexual desires towards others? However, there is no doubt in my mind that he was heterosexual and very much in love with and married to Mary Magdala who gave birth to his child after his death. It's even in the Bible and plain to see if you understand the cultural practices of that time.
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by LarryH54 on June 3rd, 2008
Because we have nothing to base such speculations on. This sexualizing of every aspect of belief is an illness peculiar to this generation. It's little more than a vain attempt to topple a Figure that many have wished would just go away.
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by KimberlyB on May 16th, 2008
I guess its not off limits. However, its crude and should not be asked because it would just provide others more amuniton agaisnts things. There is absolutely nothing to indicate that Jesus was anything but sinless
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by ChelseaMark on March 12th, 2008
It's Da Winkie Code.
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by thatsJustme on March 12th, 2008
it is not off limits. I just remember HE was PERFECT. i remember HIS purposes here, to show EXAMPLE, TEACH,fulfill prophecy of Death and Ressurrection for us in order that we may have HOPE..
Perfection does not leave room for having sex with men, donkey's, etc. Since HIS purpose did not leave much room or time for wife and children or sex, I take it if these things had happened or been necessary they would have certainly been written about.
I do have to say, there are lots of non Christian people in this Christainity section...the Bible hates women!absurd..banging Mary Magdelene....Jesus was a necropheliac!!!! these accusations are not from people who understand or read a Bible....
Old and New Testaments did not leave out wrongs that even the righteous did, Abraham, Moses, David,etc. nor their punishments...Why would it leave out Jesus having sex with a donkey, or sex out of wedlock,etc. BECAUSE these are MEN"S THEORIES or Satan's ...and they did not happen....
& yes, I watched DaVinci Code and read the book... Barbara
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by 23Skidoo on February 22nd, 2008
Like just about everything found in Christian mythology, there is no evidence that he ever existed at all. Yet, the religion demands that adherents believe in his literal existence; water walking, zombie making, son of god being and all.

So to talk about his sexuality reminds them that IF he did exist he was a human being (much like talking about him having any other bodily functions we humans have). And THAT cause an uncomfortable itch in the brain, if but a fleeting one - what if this whole load of stuff I fervently believe in is just twaddle?

They find it simpler to stay away from any topic that even remotely comes close to asking them to question beliefs even they know deep down cannot in any way be true.

That's why.

:-)
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by DiSTurBiA on January 4th, 2008
because kristians are afraid to know the truth, but honestly why care? he doesnt exist
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by Sugar-licious a bellydancing rum maiden on December 16th, 2007
I can only speak for my own Christian experience. We (myself and other Christians) have discussed Jesus' sexuality at length many times. Most of us believe he felt desire and temptation as most humans do. What set Jesus apart was his ability to control his desires rather than his desires controlling him. It is no great feat to live a life without sin if one never feels the temptation to sin. It is not important whether his attraction was to male or female, what is important is he did not commit sin, but offered the gift of forgiveness to anyone who does commit sin.
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by Tamilze on December 16th, 2007
Because we all know that Jesus reproduces in a very complex form of mitosis.
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by barjacob on December 16th, 2007
useless waste of time and energy. He was God-Man, had a mission to fulfil, soon sensed that he was doomed to death, so not much time for a relationhip that in His culture would demand the obligations of family life. On the deeper level, HE LOVED which transcends genital/sexual which is why so many celibates are following His example, despite the failures as there are failures in married life too. The whole fuss over Mary Magdalene in "Jesus Christ Superstar" decades ago and "The (idiotic) Da Vinci Code" and another film by the director Martin Scorsese some years back which the Fundies went wild because it suggested sexual liasion with the Magdalene without their having seen the film, - shows a total ignorance of the meaning of Love and is pruriently sexual/genital, we cannot see beyond the external, physical, tingling nerve endings to the SOUL ! Our culture needs a good does of healthy sexuality: as in kids wearing proper clothes from age 9-18, young adults not cunfusing physical attraction with "Love" and adults showing maturity also.
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by Jane on November 30th, 2007
it is? Oh well then i should stop.
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by AnaContessa on November 22nd, 2007
It's not off-limits to me. What would you like to talk about? Keeping in mind that there's no Biblical reference to his sexual orientation, but what the heck. Bring it!
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by Anonymous on November 22nd, 2007
If Jesus (the man-god) did truely exist, then his impact and message would have been greater then the color of his skin, the way he walked or his carnal desires.

With the tons of questions I have in regards to God, the sexual interests of Jesus never crossed my mind.

Anything else you'd like to share?
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by DA BEN DAN yanggui zi on September 6th, 2007
I suppose because he wasn't married and that subject is taboo with christianity.
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by peterpam on September 5th, 2007
Where is it off limits have you not read the newspapers, many books. Seen films, watched tv, listened to comedians been a part of AB etc. It is questioned and declared far and wide. I would not say that is offlimits. What is becoming more unacceptable is to believe the clear reading of the bible as to what it says!
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