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UCC Priest Says David and Jonathan Were “Almost Certainly” Homosexual Lovers

by | Jun 9, 2025 | News, Opinion, Religion

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Caleb Lines, the lead heretic-in-residence at University Christian Church in San Diego—a so-called “progressive” congregation affiliated with the Disciples of Christ (which long ago abandoned anything resembling orthodoxy)—is back at it again.

Known for his flair for rainbow exegesis and TikTok theology, Lines regularly makes headlines for shoehorning leftist talking points into ancient texts with all the finesse of a toddler with safety scissors. Last week, it was his wild assertion that Jesus calling Lazarus out of the tomb was actually a metaphor for “coming out of the closet” as a homosexual.

If there’s a biblical passage that can be twisted into affirming modern sexual confusion, you can count on Lines to be first in line with his hermeneutical crowbar.

This time, he’s decided David and Jonathan were homosexual lovers. He claims their friendship was “almost certainly romantic” because David once said he loved Jonathan more than women—and then, with a straight face, points to “six highly erotic passages” that allegedly mirror homoerotic poetry from the ancient Near East.

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Never mind that nothing in the text even remotely implies sexual behavior. Never mind that Scripture elsewhere clearly condemns homosexual acts. No, for Lines, emotional depth = eroticism, loyalty = lust, and poetry = proof. It’s not exegesis, it’s projection.

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