The doctrine of the Nicolatians - part 1

The fight we help to lead against gay christian doctrine is nothing new to the church. It has, through the centuries since its founding on Calvary by Christ, fought valiantly against many forms of false Christian-oriented doctrines.
As we began taking a closer look at a first century heretical sect called the Nicolatians, there emerges a [...]

An unbroken cloud of witnesses against sexual sin

As GCM Watch reported earlier here and here, gay christian researcher John Boswell set out to prove that the church was historically “tolerant” to homosexual unions. Liberally using what has been called “strained exegesis”, he formulated a religious fallacy in which he argued those unions were “normal” and comparable to those of the contemporary gay [...]

The legacy of John Boswell’s brilliant lie

Yesterday, we explored the life, impact and tragic legacy of gay historian and intellectual John Boswell as well as the impact of his most controversial book Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality. Today we continue by further exploring Boswell’s impact on gay christianity.
Regardless of the stated purpose for writing the book, it was received by the heretofore voiceless [...]

John Boswell: a wasted gift of intellect

John Boswell’s life was tragic and short, but his revisioning of homosexuality in the Christian context became the basis of theological argument for much, it not all of, the gay christian movement.
His life was tragic because although he retained an enormous gifting of intellect, he used it to subvert Christian teaching on homosexuality. It [...]

Religious idolatry at the roots of gay christianity

Pictured at left: Etruscan symposium in a fresco from a tomb wall-painting from Cereveteri, depicting a youth refusing the advances of his neighbour on a symposium couch.

Proponents of gay christianity go through great lengths to present opposition to homosexuality, solely as a product of biblical misinterpretation. But there were other prominent, non-Christian voices in antiquity [...]