In this strange postmodern age, heretics find themselves in a very strange predicament.  Various skeptics, revisionists, liberal theorists, and atheists have been undermining the faith for more than a century.  By this time, virtually every heresy has been expounded by numerous proponents.  The creative heretic of the contemporary age has to come up with some new angle or bizarre new theory to promote. 

Nevertheless, never discount the diabolical ingenuity of those who intend to subvert biblical truth and the Christian faith.  The latest evidence of the heretical imagination comes from Professor Theodore W. Jennings, Jr. of Chicago Theological Seminary.  Just when you think you've encountered just about every possible heresy, along comes something so shocking that it demands painful attention.

In The Man Jesus Loved: Homoerotic Narratives From the New Testament, Ted Jennings argues not only that Jesus approved of same-sex relationships--but that he was involved in one.  Jennings explains that his book, "is an attempt to carefully and patiently explore texts from the Gospels that suggest something about Jesus' own erotic attachments and the attitude toward same-sex relationships that may be fairly extrapolated from the traditions about Jesus."  He admits that his argument "departs from what has been the norm of discussion."  That qualifies as a disingenuous understatement.

What Jennings proposes is a radical re-reading of the New Testament material in order to claim Jesus, not only as a proponent of the homosexual movement, but as a man involved in homoerotic relationships.  He intends to appropriate the Bible for a "gay-positive perspective."