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The Bible is a complex queer text. We must reclaim it from the Christian right. (religionnews.com)
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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

depending on your definition of queer, but I tend to agree

The Bible doesn't have the gender concepts contemporary Christian conservatives have, and in some sense that makes it outsider and queer - but that doesn't mean the Bible's gender and sexuality concepts are the same as contemporary queer identities.