What Jesus Said About Gay Rights

Also on this website: Toby Johnson's books: GAY SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness GAY PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe SECRET MATTER, GETTING LIFE IN PERSPECTIVE PLAGUE: A NOVEL ABOUT HEALING.     Articles and Excerpts: The Simple Answer to the Gay Marriage Debate Shame on the American People Jesus Said Homosexuals Are Born That Way "It's Always About You" The myth of the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara You're Not A Wave Curious Bodies What Toby Johnson Believes The Joseph Campbell Connection,     "The Evolution of Gay Identity" "St. John of the Cross & the Dark Night of the Soul." Avalokiteshvara at the Baths.  Eckhart's Eye   Teenage Prostitution and the Nature of Evil   Adam and Steve Gay retirement and the "freelance monastery" Seeing with Different Eyes  The mystical experience   The Techniques Of The World Saviors Part 1: Brer Rabbit and the Tar-Baby Part 2: The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Part 3: Jesus and the Resurrection Part 4: A Course in Miracles   The Secret of the Clear Light Mobius Strip Finding YourTiger Face How Gay Souls Get Reincarnated The D.A.F.O.D.I.L. Alliance Toby's friend and nicknamesake Toby Marotta. The Gay Spirituality Summit in May 2004 and the  "Statement of Spirituality"

What Jesus said about gay rights is pretty simple: "Do unto others as you would have them do to you." And again, "Whatever you do to the least of my brothers and sisters, that you do to Me." There is little question that Jesus would have been "on our side" in the gay rights debate and NOT on the side of those who claim to be his followers and proclaim their "moral values" by calling for laws against gay people's dignity and civil rights. They wouldn't want that done to them. Indeed, they're often fussing that there's subtle persecution of Christians in America. They don't like that. Following Jesus's instructions then, they should not want any kind of persecution of any people, including gay men and lesbians, because they wouldn't want themselves persecuted. About the Re-Election of George W. Bush and the Same-Sex Marriage debate: The Simple Answer to the Gay Marriage Question Shame on the American People (be sure to look at the maps on this page of Slave States vs. Free and Bush vs. Kerry)

Toby Johnson, PhD is author of eight books: three non-fiction books that apply the wisdom of his teacher and "wise old man," Joseph Campbell to modern-day social and religious problems, three gay genre novels that dramatize spiritual issues at the heart of gay identity, and two books on gay men's spiritualities and the mystical experience of homosexuality. In addition to the novels featured elsewhere in this web site, Johnson is author of IN SEARCH OF GOD IN THE SEXUAL UNDERWORLD and THE MYTH OF THE GREAT SECRET (Revised edition): AN APPRECIATION OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL.

Johnson's Lammy Award winning book GAY SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness was published in 2000.

His newest book is GAY PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe.