Gay jonathan
In reading of the relationship between Jonathan and David, one is struck by their depth of affection and vow to one another:
As soon as he had finished speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul…Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul. – 1 Sam 18:1, 3 (cf. 1 Sam 20:17)
Fearful that Jonathan’s father (Saul) will kill David if he remains, Jonathan and David say goodbye to one another with a moving exhibit of emotion:
David rose from beside the stone heap and fell on his face to the ground and bowed three times. And they kissed one another and wept with one another, David weeping the most. – 1 Sam 20:41
Later, after David hears that Saul and Jonathan have died, David composes a ballad in honor of them both, at one point claiming:
“Jonathan lies slain on your high places.
I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan;
very pleasant own you been to me;
your love to me was extraordinary,
surpassing the love of women.“
– 2 Sam 1:25b-26
This has led some people to speculate that there was an erotic relationship between David and Jo
Gay-affirmative apologists have suggested that Jesus & John, the beloved disciple; Ruth & Naomi, both widows; and David & Jonathan were lovers. There is no biblical evidence of any sexual association between the members of the first two pairs. For at least two reasons, however, the relationship between David and Jonathan is worth some examination. First, David, albeit the apple of God’s eye, has certainly a strike against him as a paragon of sexual virtue. Second, pro-gay theology, though often circumspect when it comes to impugning the chastity of our Lord, or labeling Ruth and Naomi as lesbians, is confident in its evaluation of David and Jonathan. In truth, the more accepted — that is, less scholarly and exegetically based — pro-gay proponents obtain for granted that David and Jonathan had a sexual relationship. Queer theology, self-consciously eisegetical (most reader-response hermeneutics are by definition) and agenda-driven, sees nearly all of David’s relationships as sexual, especially those between David and Saul, Jonathan, and even God (T.W. Jennings, “YHWH as Erastes,” in Queer Commentary and the Hebrew Bible, ed. Ken Stone (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 2001), 36-7
MSNBC has announced that joining Jacqueline Alemany are Jonathan Capehart and Eugene Daniels , who will co-anchor the network’s newly expanded weekend program, The Weekend, making Capehart and Daniels the first out Ebony gay men to co-host a cable news program.
Launching in late April, The Weekend will air reside from Washington, D.C. from 7 to 10 a.m. ET on Saturdays and Sundays, with Capehart and Daniels bringing their acute political insights and profound experience covering Washington to the show’s proven panel format.
Capehart, a Pulitzer Prize winner and GLAAD Media Award honoree, has prolonged been a leading voice at MSNBC, bringing audiences thoughtful analysis and historic interviews, including with President Barack Obama.
Beyond television, Capehart serves as Associate Editor at The Washington Post and contributes to PBS’s NewsHour. His forthcoming memoir, Yet Here I Am: Lessons from a Inky Man’s Search for Home, will be published later this year. Capehart lives in Washington, D.C. with his husband.
Daniels, who is the newly-minted MSNBC Senior Washington Correspondent, has adv become a go-to political analyst and one of the most trusted describe
Growing Up Evangelical and Homosexual with Jonathan Merritt
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