Articles by Gary Leupp

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“Eternal, Undivided Jewish Capital”? – A Brief History of Jerusalem
Gary Leupp - CounterPunch, 1 Dec 2014

26 Nov 2014 – The most recent Zionist reiterations of the claim to “eternal” Jewish ownership of East Jerusalem—as part of an “undivided, eternal capital of Israel” as specified by a “Basic Law” passed by the Israeli Knesset in 1980—make me want to review the Bible tales about Israel and specifically the city of Jerusalem.

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“I was just quoting scripture.” – Phil Robertson, St. Paul and the Problem of Christian Homophobia
Gary Leupp - CounterPunch, 13 Jan 2014

Contemporary Christians might consider the possibility that St. Paul, confronting today’s realities, the evolution of knowledge, and the ramifications of his own reasoning—concluding perhaps that there’s nothing worse about male-male anal sex than eating the once forbidden pork or lobster—might indeed say: “In Christ there is neither gay nor straight.”

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