God Hates Fags

The video is here.

Who is this guy? From his Web site:

A lot of people have been asking me, "Where are you coming from, Donnie?" Well, I was hoping that in my song The Bible Says that I had made myself clear, but there is only so much you can say in a 3 minute song.

I am in fact a Reformed Homosexual and I'm trying to let people know that there is an escape from being Gay. By letting people know that "God hates a Fag" I am doing Gods work, I'm preaching.

When I was in highschool I kept having feelings for the boys I was in school with. Often I would let these feelings take over. I got into lots of trouble when I was Gay.

I stopped listening to secular music and started going to my fathers church services. I was so miserable, being gay, something had to happen. I found Jesus! I found Jesus and He showed me the way. The right way to live that is. Loving, Gods Way!

Sad.

Over the holiday I read a book by Daniel Helminiak titled, "What the Bible Really Says About Homosexuality." Helminiak argues that:

Recent research on the Bible shows that, at the very least, the same-sex acts that are the focus of biblical concern were not what we mean by “homosexuality” today. Put the Bible back into its original cultural and historical setting, and it becomes blatantly obvious that the Bible conceived of the matter very differently in a very different world. Even more, this research shows that the Bible is basically indifferent to homosexuality in itself. The Bible is concerned, as with heterosexuality, only when practices violate other moral requirements….

The Bible supplies no real basis for the condemnation of homosexuality. Therefore, people must stop opposing homosexuality merely by quoting the Bible because, taken on its own terms, the Bible simply does not support their case. If they have some other reason for their opposition, they ought to get clear what that reason is and state it up front.

I found his arguments both persuasive (on refuting today's common interpretation of Leviticus's condemnation of homosexuality as an "abomination") and a bit strained (the passages in St. Paul's writing in Romans).

But the most powerful part of his book, I think, was the evidence he presents that Jesus met someone gay (as we understand the term today) and the love triangle that may have existed between King Saul, David and Jonathan in the old testament.

UPDATE: The God Hates Fags guy is a hoax...or is he? Much debate on the blogosphere. Here is Dan Savage's take.