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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Article 2: God made them Gay and Lesbian

Rev Jide Rowland Macaulay

In this article, Rev Macauley makes a bold inroad into queering the Word. He begins with a reclamation of biblical female figures, moving through the difficulties experiences by Queer students of divinity, into how we view an omnigendered, omnisexual God, in whose image we made.

Discussing the current situation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transegendered people in Nigeria, Rev Macaulay points to the diversity of a people divided over tribal, religious, geographic and orientational differences. He makes clear the fact that his ministry is specifically for Queer Nigerians alone; a message of healing desperately needed for a group in immediate danger in their own country.

“Spiritual blindness”, as he calls it, fails to acknowledge the diversity of a creation made in God’s image. Healing, he states, is part of this blindness; indeed, it is “spiritual deception”. This work in Nigeria is frontline; in the face of his own father’s infamous and conservative theological stance, Rev Macaulay is making a stance for progressive theology that is intrinsically Queer.

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