St. Paul the Apostle
Paul was very condemning of homosexuals in his writings:
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts (male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders, the self-indulgent, sodomites), nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Yet, there are many details about Paul's life to support the idea that he might have been "queer" in some way. The fact he never married, which was unusual for a Jew in his time, his companionship with a series of younger men, especially St. Timothy, who was his disciple and who Paul personally circumcised. Paul also mentions an unnamed "thorn in the flesh":
And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
All of this raises questions about his sexuality which can never be answered.
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts (male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders, the self-indulgent, sodomites), nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Yet, there are many details about Paul's life to support the idea that he might have been "queer" in some way. The fact he never married, which was unusual for a Jew in his time, his companionship with a series of younger men, especially St. Timothy, who was his disciple and who Paul personally circumcised. Paul also mentions an unnamed "thorn in the flesh":
And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.
All of this raises questions about his sexuality which can never be answered.
