Wed 19 Dec 2012 In: New Zealand Daily News View at Wayback View at NDHA
Auckland’s St-Matthew-in-the-City has nabbed international headlines with its “gay baby Jesus” billboard. Media ranging from Christian Today, to the Daily Mail, to the Huffington Post and Pink News have picked up on the confronting sign outside the church, which shows the baby Jesus with a rainbow halo and reads: "It's Christmas. Time for Jesus to come out." The Houston Chronicle says it’s “suggestive,” while the Daily Mail says the church has “sparked outrage”. Reverend Clay Nelson says the billboard presents the challenge to think about Jesus as fully human whose growing up would have involved the same range of character possibilities, and even sexuality, as the rest of us. “Some scholars have tried to make the case that he might have been gay,” Nelson says. “But it is all conjecture. Maybe gay, maybe not. Does it matter?”
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Wednesday, 19th December 2012 - 11:02am