Do you believe Jesus would attend a gay wedding?
If you have any scriptures pertaining to this that is good too.
If Jesus were a physical person, alive on this planet today, then yes I believe he would attend. It’s a fairly rhetorical question though, isn’t it?
Well, I was taught that Jesus is everywhere, so yeah, he’d be at a gay wedding.
Yes I think he would attend a gay wedding if he was invited.
He may turn the water into wine also.
Jesus was known for associating with people who were, at least in terms of the orthodox mores of his day, outcasts or widely condemned as immoral. I am sure, from that standpoint, he would appear at a gay wedding. Would he completely approve? I am not sure.
The allegedly anti-gay verses of the Bible are the work of Paul of Tarsus, not Jesus and his contemporary disciples.
(To some people it may not be so rhetorical!)
Yeah he did hang out with the outcasts and sinners I guess you could say.
I don’t think he would approve of the wedding though. IMO:)
This is wildly speculative, as most have acknowledged, so I’ll jump in w/ my wild speculation.
Would Jesus associate w/ gays? Yes. He taught love of all, and seemed to emphasize that by associating with some generally disliked folks.
Would Jesus attend a gay wedding? I don’t think so. Assuming that this were a religious ceremony, I don’t believe there is anything in the Bible or Jesus’ teaching that would tend to advocate a religiously sanctioned wedding of same sex couples.
Not only would, but does…
Any time there’s a “Nuptial Mass” at a liturgical church that extends the marriage blessing to a gay couple covenanting their vows to each other.
And if He were here in the flesh? Absolutely! And He’d have a few comments about judging your fellow man similar to those He directed at the Pharisees to those who said otherwise.
Polycarp: How about a plural marriage? I took a lot of heat on another GD thread for linking gay marriage w/ plural marriage, but I’ll stick my neck out again. I must one of those people who never learn…
Of course he would. Jesus loves everyone. Why would anyone think he wouldn’t be there?
I’ve never seen a singular marriage in my life, although there are some people sufficiently in love with their own perceived greatness that it wouldn’t surprise me!
I don’t have a clue – why not ask Him? 
Seriously, if He had a problem with anybody’s proposed nuptials, I can see Him going and talking to them about what His reservations would be, not laying down rules as His followers seem wont to do.
I’d argue he probably wouldn’t have. The idea of a gay wedding would be so far outside the Palestinian Jewish experience of the time that I don’t think anyone living then and there would even think of one.
In fact, the only reference I can think of to a “gay wedding” from about that time is something the Suetonius (I believe) claims Nero did He records a marriage ceremony conducted with Nero as the groom and a slave dressed in drag as the bride, but he records that more as an example of Nero’s oddness and depravity than anything else.
From Chapter 28 of “Lives of the Caesars”
Polycarp:
I know the OP only asked about “attendance” at the wedding, but I think most of us are also looking at whether he would approve of said wedding. That’s where I was coming from when I brought up plural marriages.
Strictly speaking, I could agree that he might attend a gay wedding. But I can’t see that he’d approve. IIRC he was not shy about speaking his disaproval at times (eg moneychangers in the temple), so I don’t buy that he wouldn’t voice approval or disaproval.
But in reality, and you are clearly more knowledgeable than I on this subject, is there ANYTHING even remotely related to homosexuallity in the New Testament Gospels? I think we’re all just guessing from the “sense” we get of Jesus’ character and philosophy. Not any facts to go on that I know of.
Even if, note I say IF, you were to consider homosexuality a sin, I think He would attend.
So no, Jesus would not avoid homosexuals. IMHO
This may not sit well with some fundies, but Jesus almost seemed to go out of his way to contact sinners and the unclean. He revealed himself as Christ for the very first time to a Samairtan woman who may seem to be of questionable morals. He touched a leper to heal him saying, “I want to.” He refused to condemn a woman caught, so they said, red handed in adultery, instead telling the crowd, “Let you who is without sin cast the first stone.”
I consider myself to be Christian and am quite a Bible student (though not a scholar). My dad is gay, so I may have a bit of a bias in how I look at this.
Does the Matthew cite help?
just to be clear, I am not calling Gays unclean or sinners
thought I would clear this up after rereading my post
(I love my dad)
There are Scriptures that some people use in anti-gay preaching. (1 Corinthians 6:9,10 comes to mind)
Just quoting it, y’all. Don’t dogpile me for what someone else wrote.
I didn’t find anything specifically by Jesus on the subject of homosexuality.
I had read that in translating the Bible from ancient greek that they took a word that did not mean homosexual and substituted homosexual for it.
I wish I remembered where I read that.
That’s interesting. I’ll look for it, too.
malakos (soft) and arsenokaitos, about which I’m not sure of the meaning, are the two Greek words that I can recall that are rendered “homosexual” in some translations.
And yes, No Clue Boy, you’re 100% correct – Jesus never addressed the issue of homosexuality. He does have a lot to say about standing in judgment over others, and about considering oneself to be more righteous than another – something that seems to have completely escaped those who tend to speak with self-assumed authority on what He would do. I’m basing my answers on what it says about what He did with those considered sinners in His day, and extrapolating it to today.
Perhaps Diogenes will wander in – I know he has a much better background in New Testament Greek than I do, and can probably identify the anti-gay Pauline passages and explain what the original had to say.