Gays Cannot Be Excluded As Eunuchs

People discredit the claim that gay men are eunuchs by holding firm to the belief that eunuchs only consisted of castrated men, men born with both male and female genatalia and men with deformed genitals.

The lack of acceptance of gay nonmale eunuchs is partly because of our people's limited understanding of the role and function of the human brain.  The other contributing factor is that over the centuries man tends to accept what is told to them as truth without fact checking the statements against history. Our people intentionally choose to ignore scientific evidence in favor of myths and false beliefs.

The Qur'an instructs that Allah creates what Allah wills...and that Allah created males, females and those who are nonprocreative (e.g. those who lack the defining skill of a male).

The fact that in ancient time simply having been born with a penis alone did not place one in the male gender is a list fact to history.  However, it is a fact that men who had the ability to engage in coitus with a female and who were born with a penis were the defining traits of a male child.  If the child was a natural born eunuch unable to engage in coitus, " the defining skill" those individuals were categorized as eunuchs.  Further evidence that proves the claim that gays cannot be excluded as eunuchs is that the legal codes that existed in all of the ancient empires consistently evidenced laws that permitted eunuchs to marry and own property, whereas castrated men were prohibited from getting married or owning property.  What is deduced from the evidence that I submit is that eunuchs had complete genitals and were not merely castrated men.

The other important oversight  the layperson who naively buys into the lie that eunuchs are castrated men is that castrating a man's testicles does not cause men to lose their romantic desire for women, become indifferent to the image of a female body or develop an aversion for the female.  These important traits well documented in the published literature is not reconciled by the "christian" churches intentional objection to the truth.  Islam knows very well that only Satan objects to the truth.  

WHAT"S IN A NAME: HOMOSEXUAL IDENTITY IN BIBLICAL TIME PERIODS

In order to get to the truth about a people one must start at the beginning, and in starting at the beginning understand the context and content of what one reads.  Words have meaning and they are used to describe persons, places and things.  The meaning and definitions associated with words change from one period to the next.  Also, a word's meaning and definition can be entirely different when the word is translated from one language to another.   For example, the term "GAY" is used to define a sexual minority which exist in America and that Americans commonly use today to refer to a homosexual.  However, in the 1920s if one was to use the word "GAY" in a sentence then one would be referring to a person who is happily excited : merry gay mood>. 

BOY: "PAIS" ( e.g. Hebrew Translation):  Pais as used in scripture is a slang word which was uswd to identify a younger male lover within the time period that the Gospels of Mathew and Luke were written.   The term pais was a slang term of affection used in the Greek Language to identify a younger male lover.  The New Testament was written in the Roman Empire. The Romans occupied Israel at the time the Centurion and pais story occurred. Greek language and Roman and Greek cultural mores impacted the writing of the New Testament. Greek words like pais convey the flavor of Greek cultural influence. If Matthew and Luke intended to tell us the gay Centurion and pais story, we should at least be open to hearing that truth. For example, Centurion and Pais is described in scripture.  The word "pais" or boy when used by an adult male when referring to another adult male during the period the gospels were written was a slang term used by an adult male when referring to his male lover.  Sir Kenneth J. Dover, (a heterosexual), former President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, and Chancellor of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, from 1981 until his retirement in 2005 and noted authority on ancient Greece, in his book, Greek Homosexuality, tells us the younger partner in a homosexual relationship is called pais or paidika. This information impacts our Centurion and pais discussion.

“The pais in a homosexual relationship was often a youth who had attained full height.”  (p. 16).

“The Greeks often used the word paidika in the sense of ‘eromenos.’ ”[ e.g.  “the boy you are in love with]. (p. 16).

Paidika is the diminutive of pais.

“The junior partner in homosexual eros is called pais (or of course, paidika) even when he has reached adult height and hair has begun to grow on his face.” ( p. 85).

Because the Centurion used the word pais to describe the servant he so highly valued, because Jesus commended the faith of the Centurion and because Jesus did not condemn the sexual relationship implicit in the Centurion’s use of the word pais, one faithful scriptural understanding of Matthew 8  of the New Testament is that God can and does bless loving homosexual relationships which are within the Biblical moral framework - committed, faithful, non-cultic.

EUNUCH:  BORN-EUNUCH - Eunuch is a name like many which have been used to identify those who were homosexuals.  Never-the-less, Mathew 19 describes three categories of eunuch.  Those "so born in their mothers' womb" refer to what the historical record describe as "Born Eunuchs".  This category is the appropriate and accurately accounts for the origin of all homosexual men and women, who are "so born" into a condition that "Castrates" us from sexual desire toward the opposite sex.  The term eunuch excludes lesbian women.  Historic references to lesbian women included virgin, maiden (e.g. Vestal Virgins).  Wisdom of Sirach, one of the apocryphal books included in the Catholic Bible, says that embracing a girl makes a eunuch groan with nausea [Wisdom of Sirach 30:20]. It also says that a eunuch has no more desire to have sex with a girl than a righteous man has to use violence [Wisdom of Sirach 30:20]. Some men by birth have a nature to turn away from women, and those who are subject to this natural constitution do well not to marry. These, they say, are the eunuchs by birth.

SUMMARY/CONCLUSIONS

Today's blog offers two accounts in which homosexuals have been overlooked in scripture.  The historical and archival evidence in annotated form demonstrate a misapplication of words written in scripture to define homosexuals.  When considering the new information what conclusions and insight do you offer?  With your new knowledge of the words and the contextual meaning of these words each should revisit the numerous scriptural references from Acts, Isaiah, Luke and Mathew that describes and support a benevolent and positive attitude toward homosexuality.  For those who are lazy I offer one scripture from the Prophet Isaiah for each to ponder.

"Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.  Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.  Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree. For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off".

The bisexual god Atum was known as the “Great He-She.” Atum was also known by many other names like Khepri, the great scarab beetle, Ra-Harakhte, the winged-solar disk, Ra, the midday sun, Aten, the solar-disk, or Horus on the Horizon. No matter what name he took he was viewed as the one and only creator in the universe.

Almost all people are bisexual by nature, although most people choose, or are conditioned, to limit themselves to the opposite sex. Thus, for almost all so-called “straight” people, their sexual identity is defined by their behavior, and is subject to influence or change. In fact, in the ancient world, most people were actively bisexual in their behavior at different times in their lives.

However, as a minority, gays differ by nature from the majority – not in our attraction to the same sex, but only in our physical lack of response to the opposite sex. Being naturally impotent for procreative sex, innately gay men were referred to in the ancient world as “born eunuchs” or just “eunuchs.” Meanwhile, women who innately lacked response to men were seen as a particular kind of “virgins.”  If indeed this is an accurate reflection of all men, then this may be the motivation behind the prevailing belief that homosexuality is a “choice”.

GAZE/AHEAD: Eunuchs As Homosexuals, Detailed Historical References

GAZE/AHEAD: Eunuchs As Homosexuals, Detailed Historical References

Eunuchs As Homosexuals, Detailed Historical References

Homosexual/Eunuch: Historical Findings

Mathew 19 identifies Jesus providing instruction on marriage, in doing so the question of whether those who share an affinity, or "saying" with that of the woman. Jesus , describes the eunuch as that type of individual in which he instructed as not being good to marry. "But he said to them, “all cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given” [Matthew 19:10 and 11]. Scholars tend to think that Matthew 19:12 speaks of people apart from the normal heterosexual relationships because of the question the disciples asked. The surgically altered eunuch is outside the normal heterosexual relationship and is more aptly explained by: “eunuchs who are made eunuchs by men.” Then there are “eunuchs who are eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake.” Monks and priests who have either taken a vow of celibacy and /or castrated are outside normal heterosexual relationships. But who is the eunuch that is outside normal heterosexual relationships and is “born thus from his mother's womb?” Jesus Christ who is the Messiah, the Christ, the son of God, or the son of man, provided his opinion of the way society should treat those who were eunuchs, which were individuals outside of normal heterosexual relationships. Regarding the eunuch by stating “He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.” Jesus understood and gave our church clear direction on the principals that our faith should hold in regard to our beliefs, attitudes and practices associated with the eunuch and that was of acceptance. In all fairness, he is speaking on marriage to a woman, and a eunuch not being a good candidate for marriage to a woman. This scripture did not touch on any other type of union between two people. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, instructed “Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor. For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone? ”

Jesus describes three types of eunuchs in Mathew 19, of which the first description are what historical scholars have identify in the historical archive as "born eunuchs".  Born Eunuchs as Jesus instructs are "so born in their mother's womb" Mathew 19, 10:12.  This category includes homosexual men and women, along with hermaphrodites, asexual and other types of conditions where there is a in-born condition in which separate and/or "cut-off" the eunuch lust and desire toward woman.   Wisdom of Sirach, one of the apocryphal books included in the Catholic Bible, says that embracing a girl makes a eunuch groan with nausea. It also says that a eunuch has no more desire to have sex with a girl than a righteous man has to use violence. Wisdom of Sirach, one of the apocryphal books included in the Catholic Bible, says that embracing a girl makes a eunuch groan with nausea [Wisdom of Sirach 30:20]. It also says that a eunuch has no more desire to have sex with a girl than a righteous man has to use violence [Wisdom of Sirach 30:20].

Now, as noted, the category of eunuch included not only born eunuchs, which are gay men, but also man-made eunuchs.   For the purposes of circumventing the law and satisfy their sexual lusts for other men by having sex with men who had been made eunuchs in advance, through injury to their reproductive organs. This, I can only say, evil practice is first mentioned to my knowledge by Herodotus, as a custom in Sardis in western Asia Minor in the early 6th century BC [Herodotus III 48-49, 92].  In fact, none of the eunuchs mentioned in the Hebrew scriptures or in any other ancient text prior to Jesus are ever called "born eunuchs", because until about the sixth century BCE nearly all people who were called eunuchs were born that way.  Some men by birth have a nature to turn away from women, and those who are subject to this natural constitution do well not to marry. These, they say, are the eunuchs by birth.

In Sardis, the city where silver and gold coins were invented, attractive boys and young men were castrated in order to satisfy the lusts of wealthy customers throughout the Mediterranean. These boys were called ektomias, meaning "the ones who are cut."  Prior to Herodotus, institutional castration is cited -- if at all -- only as a punishment for sexual crimes such as rape and, in some circumstances, adultery [ Ancient Egypt, Laws of Manu Book VIII, Emperor Chu-Kung, Roman republican laws (all according to Richard Millant, Les Eunuques à Travers les Ages, Paris: Vigot Frères, 1908, pp. 101-103].  The Assyrian laws give "being made a saris" along with facial disfigurement as a punishment for the adulterous lover of a married woman (as long as the husband is willing to punish his wife likewise with facial disfigurement), and for a male passive partner in a homosexual act [Middle Assyrian Laws § 15, 20. See note 73 (Section 3)].  Assuming that "being made a saris" meant being castrated (which is not necessarily the case), then the Assyrian laws would represent the only text prior to the fifth century BCE in which castrated men are called eunuchs.  

It must simply be kept in mind when reading them, that the word eunuch did not mean "castrated man" in the ancient world as some of these authors assume. Even Ringrose, who recognizes that "the term eunuch in late Antique and Byzantine sources was broader and more nuanced than the simple phrase 'castrated man' seems to imply," and that it could include "men who were lacking in sexual desire," [ Kathryn M. Ringrose, "Living in the Shadows: Eunuchs and Gender in Byzantium," in Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History, ed. by Gilbert Herdt, New York: Zone Books, 1996, p. 86] still assumes that the personality characteristics attributed by ancient authors to eunuchs, such as excitability and lack of self-discipline, were due to "the physiological effects of castration." [Ringrose, p. 93].  Yet these types of personality traits are familiar negative stereotypes of gay men.

It is a very little-known fact that there was a category of men in the ancient Mediterranean who were called "natural" or "constitutional" eunuchs. [Matthew 19:12; Digest of Justinian 50.16.128.] It is even less known that these eunuchs are defined in early third-century Roman laws as having no physical defects -- at most they had a peculiar mental orientation [Digest of Justinian 21.1.1.9 in conjunction with 21.1.5-6 and 21.1.38.7].  They were evidently what we call "born homosexuals." In the laws, they are differentiated from castrated men and others, who do have physical defects. Natural eunuchs were entitled to marry women, adopt, and bequeath property, since "there is no bodily defect present as an impediment to that"[Digest of Justinian 1.7.2.1, 1.7.40.1, 23.3.39.1, 28.2.6], while castrated men were prohibited from doing all these things. Nonetheless, Juvenal had found that "when a eunuch marries a woman, it is hard not to write satire" [ Juvenal 1.22].

The seventh century Visigothic Code ultimately solved the ambiguity around natural eunuchs by ordering the castration of every man guilty of a homosexual act[Visigothic Code 3.5.5] -- which certainly gives the Spanish obsession with cojones a whole new dimension. The closet was thus constructed, and with it a new definition of masculinity as well -- based not on the fulfillment of the procreative role, but rather on the preservation of bodily integrity. A male was now identified merely by an intact penis and testicles.  Augustus Caesar's law against adultery likewise prohibited intercourse with "males,"[Institutes of Justinian 4.18.4]  and may well have provided the impetus for a widely-attested wave of castrations in the early empire -- in order to supply sex partners who were not "male."[Seneca, De ira 1.21; Juvenal 6.371-373, 10.306; Martial 6.2, 9.6.4, 9.8.5; Statius, Silvae 4.3.16; Suetonius, Nero 28, Domitian 7] 

Pliny the Elder assigned eunuchs and hermaphrodites to the "third gender called half-male," saying this category also included men whose testicles were destroyed, either by injury or by natural causes [Natural History 11.49]. Thus Pliny distinguished between eunuchs and men whose testicles were destroyed even while categorizing them together, along with hermaphrodites, as third-gendered half-males.

Now, in addition to being spiritual authorities and palace servants, eunuchs had a traditional role as sexual passives. Because they were not "male," this behavior was legal in both pagan and Biblical law throughout all prior history. A sympathetic historian in the time of Constantius II noted that the emperor himself was sexually devoted to his eunuchs, courtiers, and wives; while, "content with these, he was never defiled by any transverse or unjust lust" [Sextus Aurelius Victor, Epitome of the Caesars, 42.19]. It was Constantius, a Christian, who issued the aforementioned decree implicitly recognizing homosexual marriage (as long as it did not involve a "male" partner in a passive role). Remember that this decree was issued in a period when palace eunuchs were powerful and influential in the imperial court. 

Implications of Homosexual/Eunuch on Church

Since the evidence weigh heavy in support that eunuchs are gay men, the number of gay men identified as such in the Bible skyrockets. Potiphar, the gay Egyptian official who bought Joseph as a slave; the killers of Jezebel; the black gay court official Ebedmelech, who saved the prophet Jeremiah from the dungeon; the gay court officials of Nebuchadnezzar who raised Daniel; the gay servants who plotted against Esther's father and the other gay servants who exposed the plot; the gay court official from Ethiopia whom Philip baptized; not to mention gay military leaders from Israel, Judah, Assyria, and Babylonia. 

Moreover, gay people mirror in themselves the divine union of maleness and femaleness that is traditionally thought to be the image of the Creator. After all, the image of the Creator is male and female, according to Genesis 1:28.

Historical Literature 

Marmon's Eunuchs and Sacred Boundaries, Millant's Les Eunuques à travers les Ages, Ringrose's article "Living in the Shadows: Eunuchs and Gender in Byzantium" in Third Sex, Third Gender, Jaffrey's The Invisibles, and Nanda's Neither Man nor Woman, are all excellent resources for historical information about eunuchs.

  

The Low Down on the "Down Low" Dude

When I was first  made aware of what it meant to be "Down-Low" I was astonished at the duplicity in behavior....yet I like so many others let it go as a petty inconvenience.  In fact I convinced myself that the only masculine man who possessed the strength of a man of which is what I desire in any man of whom I date.   The whole down-low phenomenon is getting to the point of being falsely associated with manhood, manly deeds and strength.  First let me speak to the lie and say to all men who wear the title down-low directly, "  If you are down-low?  that is your damn problem not mine?  First you are not a celebrity, superstar and not that damn important and thus why the need for you to believe obviously that your privacy and discretion is more important than mine?  Who the fuck are you but a damn LIE? Which is why I never got the fact that a dude is willing to share his ass, or his dick and including other things but will not give you his full name.  What man of substance will lay up and lay down with a man or woman and he does not have the decency to provide his name?  If your circumstances merit that you cannot risk being caught cheating by your wife or boyfriend then you should consider getting a hobby or finding something else to do with your life rather than injecting others with such vile behavior...I am not impressed by the down-low.  

Therefore I offer my final affirmation on the "Down-Low" and hope that this may serve as a guideline for the dumb "sissy" and yes only a "dumb" and "sissy" would fall for the foolishness presented by men who consider it a badge of honor that they are down-low.   The down-low dude is a damn coward.....he has/she has chosen to rape an already sick and healing community of young men and women willing to go along to get along.  These individuals add to the negative image and stereotype that exists and is indicative of the fact that 90% of us do not look "gay" and thus these individuals believe that they deserve to have their name, privacy and discretion more valued over that of another MAN's privacy.   For example, you find them requesting that you send your digits....I never fall for that shit either.lol   This sort of trash only come to rape and pillage individuals dumb enough to fall prey to their treachery.  Then after getting their needs fulfilled regularly they creep back into their comfortable little "straight"  fake made for TV life.  To add insult to injury they are the first niggard to talk smack about "punks" at the club or at the gym, thinking their manhood to be intact and unblemished.   Know that this unstable confused person can only make your life unstable and confused.  If I had the misfortune of being down-low then in fact I would really believe myself to be that "punk" and "faggot" that slips from the mouths of many from time to time.   This type of talk most often comes from another homosexual and not a heterosexual "straight" dude from my experience.   The true face of the DL Man is one who is a COWARD, SELFISH and a USER, just to name a few adjectives that befit such punks....

Don't get me wrong, all grown men and women should have been taught and trained by their fathers and mothers to be discrete when it comes to certain aspects of their daily life.  I support and encourage the right and the expectation that all men and women are entitled to privacy and discretion.  For example, when I walk in the room I don't tell folk that I am a "Black Man", but clearly everyone sees that I am indeed a "Black Man."  Therefore, why should I go out of my way to lie, alter or misguide folk who already know, don't care and don't give a damn? 

That DL dude is like an adulterous woman who sits at the table and eats her fill, gets up from the table....then wipes her mouth and proclaims that she has eaten nothing.  DL due harm to themselves and they collectively have done more harm to the soul and character of the homosexual community than is realized.   The devastation wrought by the behavior can be found throughout our community.  

Lying about who you are and then going to unnatural lengths to cover up the behavior inevitably is no at Strength, it is a Weakness.   Moreover, anybody who encourages and facilitates one to live a lie or be ashamed of living the "Truth" is not "Straight in fact they are "Crooked".   However, the irony in the whole matter is that it has never been a true blue heterosexual that ever has a problem with a man of my character and demeanor.  Which is why I am comfortable with straight men and have the privilege of calling them my friend.  The man who calls out the "punk" is most certainly that "down-low" motherfucker, struggling with the fear of being found out by his "Home Boys". 

No smart and wise man believes that living a life filled with lies and cover-ups invites love, joy and peace into their life.  In fact we must live our truth, rejoice and be thankful to God who created and designed us to be homosexual.  Who would ridicule the good work and craftsmanship of God the Great Architect of all the Universe?   I don't desire to argue doctrine, for I do not need words written by men to know and be intimately acquainted with the truth that lives and reigns within my soul.  By the way you cannot argue with the Truth anyway....it just is the truth.  The only folk who are going to have a problem with you living the truth is those individuals living a lie..

So if you are Down-Low and of course you are the only person who would know who you are,....since you are so damned "Down Low".   That DL Mofo shows up at the door lying and then some low self-esteem homosexuals becomes their victim.  The community seems to idolize this DL, weak individual like he is "King Dingaling"...a real man when in fact he is merely a reflection of a man.  You could say that  they are in sort of like "reverse" drag queens.  They come in with their fake swag and wear the clothes, talk the jive but  be certain that they still ain't the real deal at the end of the day. That DL man is lying to themselves.... lying to some woman and more than likely some man/men.

I know some will say that it is being "out there" or none of folks business who one sleeps with and that sound "about right" to some, but for me I strongly understand that homosexual men more than ever before need to stand and lead our community, and the young gay men and women who will continue to be born to heterosexual men and women out of the imprisonment of our minds, fear and persecution that is cultivating unhealthy behavior which weaken and destroys the community on person at a time.

As for me and my house we shall serve the Lord, therefore I will not share myself with a DL individual...  When one does lays with these unclean spirits one is infected with their unstable and confused spirit.  It speaks to the character of a MAN that would want to live down-low....My mother taught me at the age of five, and I follow this advice to this very day..."If you got to hide and sneak in order to do something then you should not be doing what you are doing in the first damn place...."

GAZE AHEAD: GAZE AHEAD: Irritating Comments "Straights" make to Affirm Homosexuals

GAZE AHEAD: GAZE AHEAD: Irritating Comments "Straights" make to Affirm Homosexuals

Why does it seem that heterosexual men are more accepting of lesbian women as opposed to homosexual men ?

GAZE AHEAD: Irritating Comments "Straights" make to Affirm Homosexuals

GAZE AHEAD: Irritating Comments "Straights" make to Affirm Homsexuals

GAZE AHEAD: Irritating Comments "Straights" make to Affirm Homosexuals

GAZE AHEAD: Irritating Comments "Straights" make to Affirm Homosexuals

GAZE AHEAD: What are your reactions to the recent beating of a young African American Gay Male?

GAZE AHEAD: What are your reactions to the recent beating of a young African American Gay Male?

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