"Gay" baby Jesus billboard outside NZ church enrages community
A new billboard outside of a church in New Zealand is drawing criticism from the local community and the wider Christian population by inferring that the son of God was homosexual. The billboard states that its "time for Jesus to come out." The church, St. Matthew -in-the-City in Auckland , is described on their home page as a progressive Anglican church and posted the advertisement as a way to start a new debate. Their argument is that Jesus might have been gay – a dubious claim that has been met with stern opposition. Notable theologians have repeatedly charged that the Bible is clear over which unions were acceptable in the eyes of Jesus, though. "It is simply undeniable that Jesus assumed heterosexual marriage as God's design and plan … Jesus sees all sexual activity outside this covenant as sinful," Daniel Akin, president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary , previously stated during a theological conference. The controversial poster reads