St Matthew's Church Auckland infers Jesus was an active homosexual
A complaint about an Auckland church billboard questioning whether Jesus was gay has been dismissed on the grounds it wasn't offensive. The St Matthew -in-the-City billboard featured an image of baby Jesus in a manger with a rainbow coloured halo and the words: "It's Christmas . Time for Jesus to come out." The complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority said the representation of Jesus was "akin to hate speech". However, a decision released yesterday found the billboard's speculation about Jesus's sexual orientation did not breach advertising codes. It was "prepared by a Christian church to promote debate within the Christian faith , as opposed to a deliberately offensive advertisement by an outside party for commercial gain, had been prepared with a due sense of social responsibility", the decision reads. The inference is that St Matthews was promoting that Jesus was homosexual, Jesus performed the sin of homosexuality. Hence,